Lazylaces Logo Competition

I've just done some work to update the blue stylesheet version of this site - you can switch between the site stylesheets at any time by using the red and blue squares at the bottom of the righthand column (or use the hyperlinks I've just written out). Anyway, that's not my point. While I was doing the work I got to thinking that it's about time I updated the lazylaces logo...

The original, and still in use, logo was created when I took an image from the results of a google image search for "laces" and then had some kind of artistic accident with it in Paint Shop which I still don't fully understand. Anyway it's meant to show some shoes tied in a lazy fashion - I have no idea if it succeeds - I stopped thinking about it about 3 years ago. What I'd like to do is replace it now, and if someone with more artistic ability than me can help, all the better, so in that vein I propose a lazylaces logo competition... here are the details (which I am not making up as I go along - honest):

Prize
The creator of the best entry will receive a token to the value of $30 for Amazon.com (or the nearest GBP equivalent for Amazon.co.uk). I'm afraid my budget won't stretch any further. In addition if I love the entry enough it will become the new logo for the site. All other reasonable, and probably all awful, entries will be featured on the site with a credit.

Guidelines

The logo should either be, or be able to fit within, a banner 630 x 80.
In GIF or JPG format, with as small a file size as possible.
It would be nice, but not essential, if the words "lazy" and "laces" were somehow represented.

Rules

The Closing Date is 28th Dec 2005 at 09:00GMT.
Artwork may be altered by me for use on this site.
All submitted artwork may be distributed and used by lazylaces.com free of charge.
Graeme's decision is final.

Ok. That's it I think. Hopefully someone comes up with something cool, otherwise the new year will see me having a painful session with Paint Shop. I'm sure I'll do an update before the closing date so look out for that [idea from a comment by Oxyacetylene].

Entry 1545, Saturday, December 10th 2005, Filed In Diary

Comments

The 68 comments on 'Lazylaces Logo Competition' span more than one page, use the links below to see them all by page:

[1] & [2].

Diego

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Well, just for tradition of the concept, FIRST!! Too bad I don't have any ideas, I'm kind of shot for the night, too busy with my "job" (which really doesn't require too much, but I've been putting way too much work into it).

"I have a philosophy. I post first..."

Comment 1, Saturday, December 10th 2005 06:00:00 AM

Lukemc

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tis great idea,lllllloooooooooooaaaaaaaaddddddssss of people will wanta try it!
(joy,i am second-sarcasm)

Comment 2, Saturday, December 10th 2005 09:39:00 AM

Xiera

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Third! w00t! Great idea, by the way.. I'm thinking of trying myself...

Comment 3, Saturday, December 10th 2005 11:13:00 AM

Sweetcorn

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How about copyrights? If I use an image found on the net, would that be ok? Or is that getting me or you into any trouble and I would have to take photos myself and/or create images?!

Comment 4, Saturday, December 10th 2005 12:10:00 PM

Allegra;WICKEDFANONE

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oooh! *gets started right away*

this could be a nice little addition to my resumé should i do it well.... :) :) :)

Comment 5, Saturday, December 10th 2005 12:30:00 PM

Pip noodle

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get some1 to do all the work for you, niiiice. Though I personally cant be bothered to enter, probably lose anyway.

Comment 6, Saturday, December 10th 2005 01:08:00 PM

Pip noodle

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and just for the record, Sixth!

Comment 7, Saturday, December 10th 2005 01:10:00 PM

Littlecowfish

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but.. but.. the current one's so nice..

Comment 8, Saturday, December 10th 2005 01:51:00 PM

Marc

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can it be animated?

Comment 9, Saturday, December 10th 2005 01:55:00 PM

Graeme

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It can be animated but I pretty much guarantee I'll hate it and I'm the judge!

Comment 10, Saturday, December 10th 2005 02:40:00 PM

Jen

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You didnt answer Sweetcorn's question:

"If I use an image found on the net, would that be ok? Or is that getting me or you into any trouble and I would have to take photos myself and/or create images?!"

It is my question also.

Comment 11, Saturday, December 10th 2005 03:05:00 PM

Graeme

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If you use an image from the net, note down the details of where it's from and include them with the entry.

Comment 12, Saturday, December 10th 2005 04:00:00 PM

Afromaggi

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Sounds great, I'll give it a go.
can I just ask, where did the name Lazy Laces come from?

Comment 13, Saturday, December 10th 2005 05:20:00 PM

Graeme

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Check the "<a href="http://lazylaces.com/about.asp">about</a>" page :o)

Comment 14, Saturday, December 10th 2005 05:45:00 PM

Afromaggi

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yeah, just realised that myself, duh! Thanks!

Comment 15, Saturday, December 10th 2005 06:04:00 PM

Oxyacetylene

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kewlidge! i'll start on monday! great idea! am sure u'll have a hard decicion as most people r more talented than they think! have fun all!

Comment 16, Saturday, December 10th 2005 06:18:00 PM

Graeme

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First entry is in already! Well done Afromaggi. I'm really glad I did this, I can see it's going to be good.

Comment 17, Saturday, December 10th 2005 06:33:00 PM

Graeme

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BTW - more than one entry per person is fine if you have an excess of artistic ability :o)

Comment 18, Saturday, December 10th 2005 06:36:00 PM

Ziggy (french fry)

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i consider myself artistic! of course painting, and music are different from web design -well slightly. I would love to enter, but two questions:
How do you make it, dumb question I quess... but like can you use photopshop, or even Paint or something, or do you need a special program?
and two, where do we send it to?

Comment 19, Saturday, December 10th 2005 06:52:00 PM

Mirr`

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kay, first time ever I post in here, while I visit the site regularly. Yes, I do shame on me...

Since im haircolor-disabled I didnt know where to send my entries. So I guess I'll just post em here ;)

http://iixee.com/pic/ll-red.jpg
http://iixee.com/pic/ll-blue.jpg

Comment 20, Saturday, December 10th 2005 06:57:00 PM

Luke mc

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well done mirr' there well good!but dont no if grames got hold of them!

Comment 21, Saturday, December 10th 2005 07:05:00 PM

Luke mc

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*graeme's

Comment 22, Saturday, December 10th 2005 07:09:00 PM

Graeme

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Well you can use just about any graphics package - although MS Paint would make it hard work!

My e-mail link is the bottom right of every page if you want to send your submissions in.

Comment 23, Saturday, December 10th 2005 07:09:00 PM

Luke mc

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i went on that about page, and i never knew u looked so funny-joke-but seriously,that page has a lot of use fall infomation,i have yet to find the use of that infomation,but its still worth looking at!!!

Comment 24, Saturday, December 10th 2005 07:14:00 PM

Anomie49

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I looked on the about page- if you're a web-related person for work, why's this site so much prettier than your work's?

Comment 25, Saturday, December 10th 2005 11:14:00 PM

Graeme

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Because I built this one ;o)

Comment 26, Saturday, December 10th 2005 11:21:00 PM

Saya

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Wait, does the logo have to be in the colors blue or/and Red?

Comment 27, Sunday, December 11th 2005 04:18:00 AM

Ziggy (french fry)

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thanx graeme

Comment 28, Sunday, December 11th 2005 05:09:00 AM

Areautena/Rei

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I'm a 'digital artist', but I am not big on ideas D:
That means I will probably submit a dozen half decent entries and maybe one good one.

As for the matter of how one ties their shoes, I tie them as best I can, but I only tie them about 3 times a year, to tell the truth. s:

Comment 29, Sunday, December 11th 2005 07:46:00 AM

Susie

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is there anyway us lot can see dem?

Comment 30, Sunday, December 11th 2005 08:54:00 AM

Tafkam

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i'm an expert on this subject, since i actually HAVE a pair of shoes that are tied lazy-laces (learnt it from my brother who's too cool to bother with details), and the sad fact is that the current logo, GORGEOUS THOUGH IT IS, is not in fact an example of lazy laces.
but (as i thought when i first saw it) maybe that makes it all the more appropriate.
ooh! irony!

Comment 31, Sunday, December 11th 2005 04:33:00 PM

Graeme

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Tafkam: You could take a picture of the shoes and send it to me. If I put it on-line perhaps someone then could use it as part of the banner.....

Comment 32, Sunday, December 11th 2005 05:03:00 PM

Susie

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can us lot hu arent making 1 c all da entries sum how?

Comment 33, Sunday, December 11th 2005 06:51:00 PM

Graeme

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Susie: I'll put all the entries so far on a page soon.

Comment 34, Sunday, December 11th 2005 07:04:00 PM

Stationary

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http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/26297538/ Here's my *ahem* submission *snicker*.

Comment 35, Monday, December 12th 2005 12:19:00 AM

Graeme

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Staionary: Nice!

Comment 36, Monday, December 12th 2005 07:26:00 AM

Afromaggi

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Thanks for the mention Graeme. Stationarys' entry made me think of an idea I had of getting a picture of a corset and Photoshopping it onto a *ahem* very fat person - in other words the laces on the corset are too lazy to hold in all the persons' fat, does that even make sense..?
Anyway, i wasn't sure if you would want a really detailed logo cos of downloading times and all that - if you wanna see it I'll try and come up with something.

Comment 37, Monday, December 12th 2005 12:58:00 PM

Joeyjoejoe shabadoo

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finally finnished it took all of about five minutes. does the worst one win a prize?

Comment 38, Tuesday, December 13th 2005 02:13:00 AM

Kennymfk

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where upload de images?

Comment 39, Tuesday, December 13th 2005 02:56:00 PM

Tigress

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i like melons!!!!!

*twitch*

Comment 40, Tuesday, December 13th 2005 02:56:00 PM

Ziggy (french fry)

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graeme, can u give me (us) the color of the blue/purple on the blue "wallpaper", and if at all possible upload (or plz tell me where I can upload) the red one... oh ya, and also the color red on the red page's links (home, cool diary...)

Comment 41, Tuesday, December 13th 2005 09:14:00 PM

Graeme

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Get all the colours here:

<a href="http://lazylaces.com/site/lzylcs_red.css">http://lazylaces.com/site/lzylcs_red.css</a>
<a href="http://lazylaces.com/site/lzylcs_blue.css">http://lazylaces.com/site/lzylcs_blue.css</a>

Comment 42, Tuesday, December 13th 2005 09:44:00 PM

Areautena/Rei

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Eh, mine are more just designs, as I can redraw/manipulate the colors, and you probably can too, right? And if not, well, like I said, I can. :|

I went for simple, I guess, since I like simple more than loads of crap. It also goes with the theme or laziness, eh?

Anyways, if you guys don't know about css files, you can use the eyedropper tool to find the exact color of anything/everything.
http://www.inetia.com/eyedropper_eng.php

Comment 43, Wednesday, December 14th 2005 06:48:00 AM

Think~yellow

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hallo

Comment 44, Wednesday, December 14th 2005 09:42:00 AM

Friedegg03

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Is there any point us uploading them to a website for your perusal or is emailing them ok?

Comment 45, Wednesday, December 14th 2005 06:19:00 PM

Graeme

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Either is fine - but I'd prefer an email.

Comment 46, Wednesday, December 14th 2005 07:56:00 PM

Ziggy (french fry)

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thankya very much [Graeme].
I can't wait to get started:
but...one more thing, I was wondering if you can use a website editor (if you ever heard of Myspace.com, or Xanga.com..., those web-blog things) well anyway, u can customize them by using a website editor, which changes the colors and borders, tables, etc.

Well, I was thinking about doing something like that (make a 'sample' web-blog and change the colors) - but I don't know if you want to go as far as changing some of the colors of the borders, text, links, etc.; and I rather not go and take the trouble of doing that, (which would also waste your and my time) if it made no sense in doing...

---whoa! i just used a chiasmus : I rather not do that, if there's no sense in doing; sorry, had to mention that, I always wondered when someone would use that?!?----

Comment 47, Wednesday, December 14th 2005 09:52:00 PM

Grant

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Okay, I have now thrown my hat into the ring. I've sent you an e-mail with my entries, Graeme. You can also view them <a href ="http://bsan.50webs.com/lazylaces_logos/lazy_laces_logos.html">here</a>.

So far everyone has done a very good job. Good work all.

Comment 48, Friday, December 16th 2005 03:38:00 AM