Looks like I have a couple of t-shirts headed for South America.
I wanted something this year a little more obviously in an arcade theme. I imagined some wild character playing an arcade machine. Maybe even a wacky creature like in the old "odd rod" stickers I collected as a kid:
Well, maybe not quite
that wild, but something like that playing an arcade game.
The closest thing I found existing on the web with a quick search was this:
which I actually showed to the logo people when I made my request. I told them I wanted something that sort of that flavor with more of an angle from the front of the machine, and to work in the "Golden Era Game of the Week" above/below/around it somehow.
That's about all I gave them to work with and three days later they offer these six (they only gurantee three) concepts to choose from to go forward with.
My take on the designs offered, saving the winner for last:
Design 1: Well, no character in it, but hey, it's a bonus anyway. I actually sort of like it okay, but like I said I wanted someone/something
playing the game.
Design 3: We're behind the machine again, and the guy is too damn nerdy looking. It also stretches out horizontally too much.
Design 4: No offense to homosexuals, but damn that looks gay.
Design 5: Overall not far off, but the machine is too straight-edged and boxy. The guy is also not quite right. And that hat...
Design 6: Getting a little further from what I had in mind. Is that machine smiling?
Design 2: Much more what I had in mind. I can work with this. I suggested some color alterations, told them to lose the hat (baseball hats aren't cool, no matter how you wear them), and it's a little weird how he's so still and touching the machine with one finger. I told them to make him gripping a joystick instead.
With some alterations I think I'll like it.
Anyway, MJS and Valter, let me know your mailing addresses and shirt sizes.
