The SPS Weblog - Creating our own Fox logos

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Now here's an idea
Bill Sanders announced (in a comment to a recent blog entry I made) that he is funding graphic artists to create 3-5 Fox logos that the VFP Community can use. The reason for this is that the Foxhead logo, that comes with Visual FoxPro 9, is a Microsoft trademarked logo that they are not giving us permission to use by itself. It can only be used as it is in the image of the Visual FoxPro 9.0 CD case. In any event, I'm excited by the prospect of these new logos and I can't wait to see what Bill comes up with.

My own stab at it
I'm not a professional graphic artist but, intrigued by Bill's idea of rolling our own, I decided to try my hand at creating a logo. I wanted something dark, to match the Visual FoxPro 9.0 CD case, and I wanted it to be a fox's head. With those two goals in mind, the following is what I came up with. A little too menacing perhaps?

Visual Foxpro

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 10:00:42 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Comments [8]

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 4:25:25 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

I do find it a bit scary. I've got a friend who is a graphic artist... may I let him use this as a starting point?

Eric Selje

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 5:36:00 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

FreeBSD had their cutish diablo, this looks like it's evil twin. Tooooo evil looking.

Scott Ramey

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 5:02:06 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Hi Craig

Can I email you a small fox.gif? Please email me if you would like to see it. I had received it embedded in an email and I had asked the person if he did not mind my using it. I was given the permission, but I never got round to using it.

Also there were a few powered by VFP logos being circulated, will any of them suit?

Just a suggestion about your logo, I feel the shape of the eyes make it look scary.

Just my 2 paises.

Bhavbhuti Nathwani

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 3:38:58 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Looks like the logo for Foxman! I can hear the 60's Batman theme playing in my head! ;) I like it, actually.

Mike Yearwood

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 10:33:42 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

To All,

I admit that the logo is a little scary. As for sending me emails of other possible logos or modifying this one, feel free to do so.

Mike,
You nailed it! I actually looked at Batman masks before creating this logo. Na-na-na-na Na-na-na-na Na-na-na-na Na-na-na-na Foxman!

Craig Boyd

Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:29:51 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Hi Craig

My logo is a graphic designer's free hand of a picture of a fox running through the snow in a calendar of foxes. I think you did #5 instead of 8 or 9.

http://www.dcrimages.com/cgi-bin/store/wildlife.cgi/fox

Look at either the one at the top of this or the lower left:

http://www.calendars.com/xq/asp/TID.{344DBD8D-2DDB-4643-A625-4F2D1BDFA35D}/MGID.-1/IID.20605/TTID.10/qx/display_other_product_views.htm

Mike Yearwood

Friday, January 20, 2006 10:54:40 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

I like it, very edgy, aggressive looking.

Michael Chean

Monday, January 23, 2006 7:28:02 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

on http://www.debisschop-lutgerink.nl/ you can see what I came up with.
I know an artist who won several prices with his drawings of foxes.
He made this one and I used it to create this gif file

Boudewijn Lutgerink

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