Call for site logos

Ken Wang

Hi All,

It has been a tradition for airport-data.com to change it's logos regularly. Now with over 170K photo on site, I found it very time consuming for me to search photos suitable for logo. So I would appreciate if every of our user can help me by suggesting some good photos.

Which or what kind of photo are suitable for making logo is always subject to personal taste. Here's some general guidelines I have been using:

1. Must be able to fit our logo size: 480x80 pixels. It may require cropping or shrinking.

2. Clear and sharp.

3. Clear background with none or little other objects (such as cloud, ground vehicles, crowd, etc).

4. "Airport-Data.com" will be shown at bottom-left corner, which will cover about one quarter of the image. Take it in consideration.

5. Artistic airport photo is also acceptable.

6. Photo must exist on airport-data.com.

7. I try my best to give everyone a chance so one logo per user. I will list all users whose work was used for past logos. Please check the list before submitting.

With every submission, please provide Photographer's name and orignal photo ID. You can submit your own or other's.

You can also submit prepared logo by cropping, shrinking, editing original photo (without site name) via email. If so, please email me your work in photoshop format (.PSD file) if possible, otherwise use PNG or GIF. JPG is also acceptable but please use highest quality to avoid image quality lose.

I can't garuantee that every submitted photo will be used. Once selected, I will add the photographer to the user list (and submitter if not same person).

On a side note, because of the special dimension of logo image, a beautifully taken regular photo is likely NOT suitable for the purpose. So please do not judge one's photograph professionalism by whether or not his/her photo was chosen for logo.

Ken

List of users whose work used for logos has been moved:

http://www.airport-data.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=4568

DougRobertson

Ken, That's a great idea and should help reduce your workload considerably. With the photographer's permission I am submitting the latest uploaded photo of N147M, a Nanchang China CJ-6A of Hal Provo's taken in formation flight by our friend Ron Eyanson with his digital Canon SLR. The photo number is AC173686.

Fifty Nanchang China CJ-6As, including N147M will be in formation flight daily at EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh this year in the Warbird show section. Ron & I have been invited. N147M has recently been re-engined with a 360 Hp radial by Hal doing all the work. He has a Repairman's license for his Experimental class aircraft.

Doug

MichaelMannschreck

here is one from me

Ken Wang

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the job. But our logo size is 480x80 pixels. And our site name font will remain unchanged. Acutally I should say "Call for logo background images".

Ken

Ken Wang

Nice recommendations Doug.

Here's finished one:

It will be used as 2nd logo for Apr 2008.

Thanks,

Ken

MichaelMannschreck

your welcome to use any of my photos :

DougRobertson

Thanks Ken, and photographer friend Ron Eyanson is in near-ecstasy! He is now thinking of putting out a 2009 calendar of Nanchang China CJ-6As; maybe too focused subject to be commercial success. But, I wish him, and you well always.

Ken Wang

May 2008 - 1:

May 2008 - 2 (Thanks to Ztex):

Ken

BruceVinal

I feel like a dope, I was looking at the logo for this month and thought "Thats a nice pic" Then I noticed it's mine : Duuuuhhhh.

Ztex

Cool!

It is great to have your pic on the logo!

Congrats!

BruceVinal

Thanks Ztex, the sun was just right that evening. I got that pic and some great ones of an Aeronca L3B (N49152)

BruceVinal

I know I've already had my turn but I just got a killer logo pic #322588 or N3703G. Stash it away Ken untill everyone has had a turn. :)

Ken Wang

Yes that's a nice logo candidate indeed. Will keep that in mind.

Ken

ConnorShepard

I am looking at some of mine to see if they can be cropped. To test them out for the text, I would like to know the font name, size and color for both the site name and copyright. I just want to get a feel for how it would look.

Thanks

DougRobertson

With 1,171 present members as I write this and 26 logo photos selected per year, and 62 photos so far selected and shown, assuming no further members ever joining (unrealistic)-it would take about 42 and a half years to give each remaining unselected present member a chance to have a logo photo selected and displayed. If you already have had a photo of yours displayed as the Home Page logo background-rejoice! It likely won't happen again!

Ken Wang

If you already have had a photo of yours displayed as the Home Page logo background-rejoice! It likely won't happen again!

Good calculation Doug.

Guess you are right. As new members keep coming in, we have more and more photos to select from everyday. But I am always open for suggestions.

One thing need to be pointed out though, qualify for logo picture or not doesn't reflect one's photos' quality. As I explained before, photos for logo has some strict and strange restricts, many excellent photos won't make a decent logo.

To answer Connor401's question, copyright font is verdana (standard in windows XP), and I forgot the font name for site name. I will check my desktop computer and post back.

Ken

P.S. Rejoice is my favorite shampoo brand, made by P&G. Though it can only be found in China, but not Canana. Never know it has a meaning, thought it's just a brand name, a made-up word.

ConnorShepard

I have several photos that I think are logo worthy. I have them hosted on a website I manage. I am displaying them here in my order of favoritism along with the image number and link. Take your pick.

ChrisHall

With 1,171 present members as I write this and 26 logo photos selected per year, and 62 photos so far selected and shown, assuming no further members ever joining (unrealistic)-it would take about 42 and a half years to give each remaining unselected present member a chance to have a logo photo selected and displayed. If you already have had a photo of yours displayed as the Home Page logo background-rejoice! It likely won't happen again!

thanks for working that out

glad one of mine was chosen for this month

DougRobertson

Thank You! The intent was to show the realism of not having more than one photo selected for the A-D site logo taken by any member. Let's keep the Forum content healthy and productive. I have certainly taken better photos than the one of mine that Ken chose for a Logo photo, but I am pleased with its past inclusion. I would remind all that you can nominate the photo of another photographer for the logo, as has been done in the past to help Ken.

Helicopterfriend

Hi All,

It has been a tradition for airport-data.com to change it's logos regularly. Now with over 170K photo on site, I found it very time consuming for me to search photos suitable for logo. So I would appreciate if every of our user can help me by suggesting some good photos.

Which or what kind of photo are suitable for making logo is always subject to personal taste. Here's some general guidelines I have been using:

1. Must be able to fit our logo size: 480x80 pixels. It may require cropping or shrinking.

2. Clear and sharp.

3. Clear background with none or little other objects (such as cloud, ground vehicles, crowd, etc).

4. "Airport-Data.com" will be shown at bottom-left corner, which will cover about one quarter of the image. Take it in consideration.

5. Artistic airport photo is also acceptable.

6. Photo must exist on airport-data.com.

7. I try my best to give everyone a chance so one logo per user. I will list all users whose work was used for past logos. Please check the list before submitting.

With every submission, please provide Photographer's name and orignal photo ID. You can submit your own or other's.

You can also submit prepared logo by cropping, shrinking, editing original photo (without site name) via email. If so, please email me your work in photoshop format (.PSD file) if possible, otherwise use PNG or GIF. JPG is also acceptable but please use highest quality to avoid image quality lose.

I can't garuantee that every submitted photo will be used. Once selected, I will add the photographer to the user list (and submitter if not same person).

On a side note, because of the special dimension of logo image, a beautifully taken regular photo is likely NOT suitable for the purpose. So please do not judge one's photograph professionalism by whether or not his/her photo was chosen for logo.

Ken

Users whose work used for logos:

Oct 2006 Andy Graf - VAP

Nov 2006 - 1 Dean Heald

Nov 2006 - 2 Stephen Amiaga

Dec 2006 - 1 Brad Campbell

Dec 2006 - 2 Andreas Mowinckel

Jan 2007 - 1 Pawel Kleszcz

Jan 2007 - 2 Michael Martin

Feb 2007 - 1 Kevin Murphy

Feb 2007 - 2 Volker Hilpert

Mar 2007 Mark A. Camenzuli

Apr 2007 - 1 Thomas Ramgraber - VAP

Apr 2007 - 2 Bill Larkins

May 2007 - 1 Mark Pasqualino

May 2007 - 2 Stefan Rockenbauer

Jun 2007 - 1 Danniel Compton

Jun 2007 - 2 Yakfreak - VAP

Jul 2007 - 1 topgun3

Jul 2007 - 2 Ken Wang

Aug 2007 - 1 Timothy Aanerud

Aug 2007 - 2 Dieter Klammer

Sep 2007 - 1 lijk604

Sep 2007 - 2 Francisco Undiks

Oct 2007 - 1 Artur Badon

Oct 2007 - 2 Nigel Hay

Nov 2007 - 1 Doug Robertson

Nov 2007 - 2 Daniel Vanderauwera

Dec 2007 - 1 Jorge Molina

Dec 2007 - 2 Gert Rosmann

Jan 2008 - 1 Bluedharma

Jan 2008 - 2 Fabien Campillo

Feb 2008 - 1 Shunn311

Feb 2008 - 2 Micha Lueck

Mar 2008 - 1 Zane Adams

Mar 2008 - 2 Mike Khansa

Apr 2008 - 1 Lutomo Edy Permono

Apr 2008 - 2 Ron Eyanson, Recommended by Doug Robertson

May 2008 - 1 Terry Fletcher

May 2008 - 2 Paul Perry, Recommended by Zane Adams (Ztex)

Jun 2008 - 1 Luigi

Jun 2008 - 2 Marco Mittini

Jul 2008 - 1 Lotsch Andreas

Jul 2008 - 2 Nino Buda

Aug 2008 - 1 Wolfgang Zilske

Aug 2008 - 2 Steve Staunton

Sep 2008 - 1 Bob Simmermon

Sep 2008 - 2 Christian Waser

Oct 2008 - 1 Daniel Seaman

Oct 2008 - 2 Jeroen Stroes

Nov 2008 - 1 Gerhard Vysocan

Nov 2008 - 2 Trace Lewis

Dec 2008 - 1 Andreas Muller

Dec 2008 - 2 Jan Bekker

Jan 2009 - 1 Keishi Nukina

Jan 2009 - 2 Bill Mallinson

Feb 2009 - 1 Philippe Bleus

Feb 2009 - 2 Nick Dean

Mar 2009 - 1 Glenn E. Chatfield

Mar 2009 - 2 Juergen Postl

Apr 2009 - 1 J. Suzuki

Apr 2009 - 2 Dawei Sun

May 2009 - 1 Basti777

May 2009 - 2 Bruce Vinal

Jun 2009 Chris Hall

Jul 2009 Mark Silvestri

Aug 2009 Bigengine

Sep 2009 - 1 frankiezahra

Sep 2009 - 2 Joel Cox

Oct 2009 - 1 Delta Kilo

Oct 2009 - 2 Todd Royer

Nov 2009 - 1 Joop de Groot

There I was, just sitting around and my picture showed up in the LOGO, Thank you for using the pictire and I hope we can all send you a lot more. Thanks again