Author Topic: NANY 2018 Mug/T-Shirt Design Competition (Read 71,118 times)

tomos · « **Reply #25 on:** November 08, 2017, 09:10 AM »

Quote from: ewemoa on November 08, 2017, 01:20 AM

I tried running some existing cody images through style-transfer utilizing programs/services (e.g. deepart.io) to get things like:

Quote from: mouser on November 08, 2017, 03:42 AM

Ewemoa I really like that image (and also the similar 1.jpg)!

big +1
those look great

Re adding of relevant text, it might be best to add the text to the image first, and then run it through that 'style-transfer' programme: i.e. cant think of a font that would look good on top of an image like that (but then I'm not a designer -- others may think different/better).

tomos · « **Reply #26 on:** November 08, 2017, 10:30 AM »

Quote from: ewemoa on November 08, 2017, 01:20 AM

I tried running some existing cody images through style-transfer utilizing programs/services (e.g. deepart.io) to get things like:

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only problem is the resolution is very low -- @ 300dpi, that images is ~ 65mm*50mm (~2.5"x2")
Not sure what resolution they use for the mugs, but dont think that would be enough.

ewemoa · « **Reply #27 on:** November 08, 2017, 11:24 AM »

The original image was about 800x600 and the code I used was from:

https://github.com/log0/neural-style-painting

It was the highest resolution I found. Happy to try other ones (as well as adding other text before running images through the process), but getting a result will likely take longer (plus some minor code tweaking may be necessary).

If any one else wants to try, the following link has quite a large number of resources to choose from:

https://towardsdatascience.com/important-resources-if-you-are-working-with-neural-style-transfer-or-deep-photo-style-transfer-719593b3dbf1

tomos · « **Reply #28 on:** November 08, 2017, 12:35 PM »

Quote from: ewemoa on November 08, 2017, 11:24 AM

The original image was about 800x600

that would explain it -- I thought it might be the conversion.
Thanks for the details

oblivion · « **Reply #29 on:** November 10, 2017, 06:03 PM »

Quote from: mouser on November 08, 2017, 03:42 AM

Oblivion, go for it!

Okay, here's an "it". It's just last year's with 8 replacing 7. Other reasonable changes can also be done, I'm sure, but if you need me to be Leonardo da Vinci you're going to be disappointed. Again.

...having uploaded the image, the transparent background looks (to me, anyway) grey when expanded. It SHOULD be transparent in real life but if it doesn't work that way and you'd rather a white background, please let me know.

hamradio · « **Reply #30 on:** January 04, 2018, 02:51 PM »

Here's a quickie I whipped up with the help of a Design Cuts 2016 texture if I remember correctly...

#1

See if you can notice the difference in the two...

#2

tomos · « **Reply #31 on:** January 04, 2018, 03:14 PM »

Quote from: hamradio on January 04, 2018, 02:51 PM

See if you can notice the difference in the two...

that easy these days: expand one and use the arrow button to show the other (a sort of a 'watermark' shows on the second one).

I love the Cody (and like the background), but find the black text very heavy: wondering what it might look like if you used the brown of the beak outline (or a darker version of same) for the text ?

hamradio · « **Reply #32 on:** January 04, 2018, 03:35 PM »

Modified #1

Modified #2

Modified #1 w/ Border

Modified #2 w/ Border

mouser · « **Reply #33 on:** January 04, 2018, 03:36 PM »

I LIKE IT!!!

tomos · « **Reply #34 on:** January 04, 2018, 03:37 PM »

Quote from: hamradio on January 04, 2018, 03:35 PM

Modified #1

I think it much improved

mouser · « **Reply #35 on:** January 04, 2018, 03:39 PM »

When its printed on a white mug, it might look nicer with a thin border around the whole thing --just my guess.

wraith808 · « **Reply #36 on:** January 04, 2018, 04:19 PM »

New Apps New Year looks strange to me. Seems like it should still be New Apps for the New Year in some manner.

mouser · « **Reply #37 on:** January 04, 2018, 04:21 PM »

I did take a moment to process it given the wording is different, but I can see getting all of the text to fit is an issue, and having it just say "NEW APPS NEW YEAR" does not bother me personally.

wraith808 · « **Reply #38 on:** January 04, 2018, 04:27 PM »

Quote from: mouser on January 04, 2018, 04:21 PM

I did take a moment to process it given the wording is different, but I can see getting all of the text to fit is an issue, and having it just say "NEW APPS NEW YEAR" does not bother me personally.

You could make the font on the 'for the' smaller. Just bothers me from a grammatical perspective lol

tomos · « **Reply #39 on:** January 04, 2018, 05:20 PM »

How about something like this:

changes:

donationcoder all small
donationcoder.com size reduced
New Apps etc reduced in size
bullets added in New Apps etc.

mouser · « **Reply #40 on:** January 04, 2018, 05:42 PM »

bullets added in New Apps etc <-- i like this change.

tomos · « **Reply #41 on:** January 04, 2018, 05:56 PM »

Quote from: mouser on January 04, 2018, 05:42 PM

bullets added in New Apps etc <-- i like this change.

Adding the bullets requires a reduction of the font size, which makes the text above very top heavy -- so I reduced size of text on top, but was it still seemed unbalanced. Then I got rid of caps (above) and was happier with it --
do you dislike the other suggestions?

hamradio · « **Reply #42 on:** January 04, 2018, 06:13 PM »

#1 - small dots

#2 - large dots

#3 - dashes

#1 small dots alternate

#2 large dots alternate

#3 - dashes alternate

tomos · « **Reply #43 on:** January 04, 2018, 06:19 PM »

^ proving me wrong there

both look great, I'd favour the smaller bullets

mouser · « **Reply #44 on:** January 04, 2018, 06:20 PM »

I can't decide which one I like best -- but I really do like this alternative mug design.

anandcoral · « **Reply #45 on:** January 04, 2018, 07:20 PM »

Quote from: tomos on January 04, 2018, 06:19 PM

^ proving me wrong there both look great, I'd favour the smaller bullets

+1

Regards,

Anand

Ath · « **Reply #46 on:** January 04, 2018, 07:28 PM »

My 2ct: I prefer the design with the all lowercase donationcoder.com name, and the dash-shaped bullets, like tomos showed above in reply #39 (On a round mug the round bullets I'd expect to look weird) If they have to be round, then the smaller size bullets seems the best alternative to me.

wraith808 · « **Reply #47 on:** January 04, 2018, 07:58 PM »

Perhaps even New Apps, New Year. But my issues with it die with just the addition of the bullets.

Deozaan · « **Reply #48 on:** January 07, 2018, 06:40 PM »

It's nice to finally see some more art in this thread.

And nicer to see the collaboration of people helping make improvements.

Admittedly this competition didn't get as much attention or entries as we had hoped, but mouser and I are discussing how to wrap things up so we can have a finalized alternative design for this year's NANY rewards.

mouser · « **Reply #49 on:** January 07, 2018, 06:45 PM »

I appreciate the designs by ewemoa (which was beautiful) and oblivion, but for me hamradio's would be the one I would choose for our alternate mug design..
I'd still like to see ewemoa's style used to make a mug (nany or otherwise), but it seems to me hamradio's is the one that is ready to go and would be the best option.