Our first radio play by play announcer was Bill Schonley. When the Blazers made a clean long shot basket he would always say RIP city. It caught on and people started using everywhere. There is probably more to the story but RIP city will always be considered part of Blazers history.
How about we make one for the future legend of NBA. Something like Oden2.com or SOden2.com or even 2Oden.com
I love the concept -- but it's a little busy -- and not as functional imo. Would like to see how it looked on the banner before I give thumbs up or down.
I'd remove the black background on the blazers part. Other than that, it's hot. IMO, we should put the 2.0 behind every logo. It's pretty awesome.
I think the name "Portland Trail Blazers" should be somewhere in the banner, even it makes it more crowded. I personally have never liked seeing type overlaid on top of other type, since it disrupts the way eye scans text. There's a reason you almost never see it done in logo designs. If it were me and I really liked having the 2.0, I'd make it huge (fill up the entire box) and screen it at 10% so you can barely read. That way it becomes just an interesting background unless you look at it for a minute. One good rule of thumb somebody once told me is that you shouldn't put text over a graphic/text that has more than 15% opacity. It just gets too cluttered. I don't really like that the box is static while the text is in motion. Most good logos try to create either a sense of balance or motion. You are trying too hard do both at the same time, which sends a conflicting message. Hope you don't mind me being so critical, Minstrel. My wife hates taking me to restaurants because the first thing I do is ramble about how much a I hate the menu layouts. Looking back, I think my logo might be veering too far on the "balance" side of things (which gets boring). Particularly not good for a sports logo.
The criticims don't bother me. Every issue brought up is one I pondered myself. To respond to each criticism with my own thinking on each: 1.Too busy -- I tried to keep the informational content to the essentials and go light on the effects while trying to make something that wasn't kind of standard. A good banner shouldn't try to tell you everything, because space is limited. It should just give the essence. 2. No "Portland Trailblazers" -- I felt this was non-essential information. The Portland Trailblazer logo is present and it's hard to think of a use case in which someone would be there without already knowing its purpose (since text in a graphical banner won't aid search results in Google). 3. Text faded behind text -- This is what I thought about the longest. I feel text can be faded behind text without being distracting if one of the two messages is not words. Another word behind text would be distracting, but I think a number is fairly easy on the eye to separate without "effort." If the number in symbols were different from the number in words ("Two"), there could be something like a Stroop effect, but in this case it's reinforcing, not competing. Ultimately, it's opinion, but I think in practice, this isn't effortful to read and makes an attractive look. 4. The balance between action and stability -- There's nothing theoretical here, unfortunately. I simply wanted to add a bit of dynamicism to the banner, since it's a sports forum, but adding that effect to the box, too, would just been way too much. The effect only looks good when slightly understated. I thought it looked nice, like the text rushing "into" the stationary box.
To clarify -- the "busy-ness" that I referred to was more about the text fade. I would like to see how it would look as a banner -- the contrast between the two colors on the textfade is what I was kind of getting at. I don't know if I like the Rip City Two in white over the 2.0. Not sure if Red for for either the 2.0 or the Rip City or maybe a softer white for the Rip City may be a little easier to read. I got no talent on this kind of stuff so
Yeah, evaluating it is a bit limited before it goes up. Changing the colour of text could be a good idea. Not the "2.0" because faded red goes pink, which isn't the right look. But making the "RipcityTwo" red might create more visual disparity.
Here's an alternate design, which I did with what people have said about the original design in mind. The "2.0" is faded more and larger, as more of an "whole banner background." I experimented with making the "RipcityTwo" text Blazer red, but that doesn't contrast enough with the black background...it fades into it too much, as a dark on dark. As before, comments/criticism welcome.
Nice! Clean, easy-to-read design with some graphics. Of course, it assumes Oden is the face of our franchise, which is up for debate. I like this one more than mine.
I love this one but not sure we would be dissing Roy by puitting Oden on this before he ever plays a game. I really like this one though.
Actually, I liked the "action" vs balance more. I'm attaching what I meant. It was actually quicker to produce than a critique, so maybe I should dispense with trying to describe my point and just do it.
