Make OCAU Awards images, win stuff!

Agg · Dec 4, 2003

We need some high-res images for OCAU awards, as awarded during reviews and so forth. Basically, something that uses the existing australia-with-ring logo, says "OCAU Recommended!" and that contains our URL in a form that will be readable when the logo is printed quite small (ie, side of motherboard box etc). An "OCAU Highly Recommended!" one would be good too, distinguished from the normal Recommended one by being prettier or something.

Person with the best submissions gets, umm, the admiration of your peers, a tin of chocolate penguin mints, a tin of normal penguin mints and a pile of AMD promotional stuff that Plus Corporation were nice enough to give us recently. There's a mug, a pen, a tshirt (M or XL only) and a funky little screwdriver/toolkit thing as well as a folder full of product info about Opteron and wotnot.

Click pic to enlarge!

I'll organise some consolation prizes for good images we don't end up using immediately. Note that OCAU will retain ALL RIGHTS to use images submitted in this thread and the only payment/royalty you will receive is the prizes if you win.

Time is of the essence as we need these images pretty much immediately, so you have a couple of days at most. If you don't know what kind of logos I mean, look at the end of some reviews on other websites and look at the side of your motherboard box etc. Those little logos!

Edit: here is a highish res copy of the logo. no we don't have one without the text, sorry.

LaRgO · Dec 4, 2003

You mean the type of 'PCPP Gold' Type of stuff except OCAU recommended?

btw: you can mail these prizes IF i win to my house ?

Agg · Dec 4, 2003

Yes, those kind of magazine awards are the same deal really.

No, you have to come to my house wearing a chicken suit to collect your prize. Of course, we'll post them anywhere in the world.

aokman · Dec 4, 2003

thanks for posting the logo agg, been mucking around with the little image for ages

ill have a play now

Redback · Dec 4, 2003

any chance of getting like a PSD or something?

mmm, layers.

Darkness' · Dec 4, 2003

I may aswell get this party started.

And yes, jaggered i know. But that's low quality JPG's for ya!

Agg · Dec 4, 2003

the font is verdana, btw.

neolithic · Dec 4, 2003

EDIT: Improved.

EDIT: More.

LaRgO · Dec 4, 2003

nice work darkness

did you rebuild the lines of the Australian shape of the island then move the text i take it?

SaTaN · Dec 4, 2003

how small are they gonna be resized to coz i these look great but i cant imagine thed be very readable if they get much smaller

Nza · Dec 4, 2003

Not usually the one to try these things, but I was a little bored, so here it is:

Of course, I imagine the final image Agg wants will be smaller, however, it seems to work fine even down to 100 pixels wide, and probably smaller.

edit: just added the Highly Recommended entry.