strong, simple lines are what we're after...
click to enlarge this concept art
SGF Logo
The organization's name is Shepherd's Gate Fellowship.
The concept of the artwork is Jesus himself as the gate itself. He is quoted as saying "I am the gate of the sheepfold..."
The purposes of the logo are primarily to brand T-Shirts, stationery headers, and media that we distribute and produce.
The graphic should be smooth lines with generous white space. Transparent background only.
As far as text in the image, there are two titles but they should be optional or interchangeable: both "Shepherd's Gate Fellowship" and "www.sgfbend.org" (Sometimes we'll use just the image, sometimes image and website, sometimes image and name. Never all three.)
The text does not need to be fully customized, but some customization is desirable. By using a base font that I can purchase or acquire, you'll allow me to make T-Shirts, DVD Titles, etc. using a font that can be associated with our organization and combine well with the logo. Here are some font options that catch my eye:
From http://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/our-favorite-fonts.htm . . . advent, amerika sans, avocado, beroga, cafe lounge 19, centabel book, coolvetica, delicious, chlorine, dobkin, dynamic . . .
I did not look through each of those to see if the letters work together to form our two primary lines of text or not, nor did I download any fonts. They just are ones that caught my eye and might have some potential. Use fonts that you know and love, and point me in the right direction to acquire a TTF I can use across mac and Windows platforms.
The concept art is above, and the line-art style that I'm looking for (though my mind is not set in this--I can be convinced otherwise) is represented by the line drawing to the left. I especially like the hair, the open face, and the folds made by her right hand: slight gap at the top where blanket touches hair, two swooping lines that fold out to the rounded arc of the edge of the towel.
I don't think I have too much preference about the logo's dimensional shape--maybe it's a square when graphic is combined with text? Maybe the graphic is a circle and the text flows around it? The text never has to appear with both the website address and the organization's name (always one or the other), though what's wanted is logo design that can work with both text options: 1) logo graphic + URL and 2) logo graphic + name.
If you're also good with favicons, we'll need one. That's something I can do but don't have time to do right. The Q below might be a direction we could go with that, rather than trying to cram too much data onto the square.
The concept of the artwork is Jesus himself as the gate itself. He is quoted as saying "I am the gate of the sheepfold..."
The purposes of the logo are primarily to brand T-Shirts, stationery headers, and media that we distribute and produce.
The graphic should be smooth lines with generous white space. Transparent background only.
As far as text in the image, there are two titles but they should be optional or interchangeable: both "Shepherd's Gate Fellowship" and "www.sgfbend.org" (Sometimes we'll use just the image, sometimes image and website, sometimes image and name. Never all three.)
The text does not need to be fully customized, but some customization is desirable. By using a base font that I can purchase or acquire, you'll allow me to make T-Shirts, DVD Titles, etc. using a font that can be associated with our organization and combine well with the logo. Here are some font options that catch my eye:
From http://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/our-favorite-fonts.htm . . . advent, amerika sans, avocado, beroga, cafe lounge 19, centabel book, coolvetica, delicious, chlorine, dobkin, dynamic . . .
I did not look through each of those to see if the letters work together to form our two primary lines of text or not, nor did I download any fonts. They just are ones that caught my eye and might have some potential. Use fonts that you know and love, and point me in the right direction to acquire a TTF I can use across mac and Windows platforms.
The concept art is above, and the line-art style that I'm looking for (though my mind is not set in this--I can be convinced otherwise) is represented by the line drawing to the left. I especially like the hair, the open face, and the folds made by her right hand: slight gap at the top where blanket touches hair, two swooping lines that fold out to the rounded arc of the edge of the towel.
I don't think I have too much preference about the logo's dimensional shape--maybe it's a square when graphic is combined with text? Maybe the graphic is a circle and the text flows around it? The text never has to appear with both the website address and the organization's name (always one or the other), though what's wanted is logo design that can work with both text options: 1) logo graphic + URL and 2) logo graphic + name.
If you're also good with favicons, we'll need one. That's something I can do but don't have time to do right. The Q below might be a direction we could go with that, rather than trying to cram too much data onto the square.
