The Petra Zone

That's the one on FB.... Yvonne Nachtigal made that.

Speaking as a marketing and graphic designer, I don't think much needs to change, unless we're overhauling the look of the whole site.

My suggestions:
1. Lose the reaching warrior man. It's awkward how it cuts off on the bottom.
2. The sword logo can stay (as the Pethead masses appear to be fiercely loyal to it), but the overlay looks like a stack of books. Perhaps something more metallic/chrome with a bevel and a glow and simplify (IE, what Stephen did). Then see what your gradient overlay looks like. If it's a sword, let's make it look like an flippin' sword.
3. Change the typeface away from Papyrus in "the" and "zone." We're not a massage parlor/garden supplier. Petra means ROCK. R-O-K ROCK. Besides, Papyrus sucks to the uttermost. Fonts communicate a lot before the text they spell out is even read.
4. Create the file in PS, and save it as a transparent .png, and you won't have that white artifacting around the letters.

Then you have yourself a simple and memorable logo.

The collages previously suggested are probably fine for what we're trying to accomplish at the Petra Zone, which is just be a place to talk about Petra, if you're ok with a 400 pixel tall header (Though I wouldn't want to scroll through half the page just to get to content below). The content of the collages won't look like anything but pile of tiny blobs if you drop down to a 100 pixel header. I know we're not selling or branding anything collectively, but an effective logo is reducible in size and will still retain it's impact.

Papyrus and comic sans are the most annoying and overused fonts. Papyrus is especially overused by churches.

rexreed wrote:Papyrus and comic sans are the most annoying and overused fonts. Papyrus is especially overused by churches.

Don't forget the color Gold is also over used by Churches

bakersfieldpethead wrote:

rexreed wrote:Papyrus and comic sans are the most annoying and overused fonts. Papyrus is especially overused by churches.

Don't forget the color Gold is also over used by Churches

Funny, I attended a Baptist church in 80's that had gold cushions for the pews and dark red carpet throughout. They commented several times the gold represented Jesus' birth and red represented His Blood.

executioner wrote:

bakersfieldpethead wrote:

rexreed wrote:Papyrus and comic sans are the most annoying and overused fonts. Papyrus is especially overused by churches.

Don't forget the color Gold is also over used by Churches

Funny, I attended a Baptist church in 80's that had gold cushions for the pews and dark red carpet throughout. They commented several times the gold represented Jesus' birth and red represented His Blood.

yeesh- I can believe that. How "creative" and corny at the same time.

I can't give any ideas as I'm not good with these things but I think there is someone that could help and give ideas I'll talk to her.

Celia! I have not seen you here for a long time!

Hey Sue! Yes happened lots of things, but now I received a from Rex inviting me to come again, so I asked again a new password and now I'm here again

Celinha missed you being around here!

Daniel wrote:Celinha missed you being around here!

Oh Thank you my friend, I really appreciate it. Almost 6 years without read anything I'll need time to check everything

Here are some logo submissions from celinhamatos.

I like the top one. Celi good to have you back and nice photo of you and the guys.

Thanks Daniel and Hudson for helping me with my profile "without you guys I can do nothing Hehehe and Rex for putting the Logo ideas as well.

executioner wrote:I like the top one. Celi good to have you back and nice photo of you and the guys.

Thanks Executioner! Well give me more ideas about the logo or if you think it is not necessary to change.

What are the dimensions of the image for the logo?