SoCal 80's Logo & T-Shirts
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OLDGOAT said:
Good point. I will call Brent and see about him pitching our idea to FristToy and see what he comes up with.
Slomo said:Medium is actually more of what I was thinking, see post #19 and the shirt that Brent is wearing. Sheesh! First day with SoCal 80's and you already beat me to what I wanted to say in the first place.
The only shirt I saw in #19 was in Brent's avatar. I don't do horizontal stripes -- they make my butt look big!
By the way, I'm sure I only beat you to it because you were probably involved in loftier matters that will preserve civilization, as we know it. Seriously, we probably want to consider two issues re: color: 1) A color we all like, or could at least tolerate. For me, that's almost any color. 2) How will the color of the shirt look with the color(s) in the logo? If we use warm colors in the logo (tan, orange, etc...), then we might not want to use a cool color (blue, gray, etc...) on the shirt. Someone with more experience in this area could probably lend valuable guidance.
Brown isn't generally one of my favorite colors, but being a warm color it might work well with the last proposed logo colors. And, it is pretty "dirt-friendly". The last time I was shopping with my kids (surf/skate stores), there were a lot of brown t-shirts indicating it's a currently popular color. And, of course, black works with anything, but it does tend to get hot...
Anyway, as I said earlier, count me in for at least 1 XL, regardless of the color and design. Maybe more for me and my family, if they look really cool.
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DirtyRice Joe said:The only shirt I saw in #19 was in Brent's avatar. I don't do horizontal stripes -- they make my butt look big!
If you look again at post #19 in the Official Big Bear Pics thread that Newps posted both pictures are of Ray in his truck with Brent walking along side spotting. Don't worry I am pretty sure we won't go with verticle stripes.
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Wow are you and interior designer? I never even considered matching the color of the design with the color of the shirt. That is good information though. I personally don't want black as you said it gets too hot and we will likely be wearing these outside on trips and such. I will put you down for 1 XL for now.
Favorite so far is like the Surf N Turf previously posted by Bluto (Thanks) with SoCal 80's on top and In Search Of The Perfect Trail on the bottom. In between an image like the 40 but an 80, well set up with a couple of long boards on a safari rack on top. If we went with a format like that it would be 3 colors. We can change the orange and tan around if everybody wants to I think the black is a given as is. Following is a list of people who are in so lets hear some feed back from those who haven't spoken up yet or speak up if you are not in yet and want to be. Depending on where we have the shirts actually silk screened we might do best to make extras to sell later. I imagine it would be easier than trying to have multiple small batches made.
Updated Shirt Quantity/Size list:
Ray- 2 @2XL, 1 @ S adult, 3@ kids sizes
Mo- 2 @ LG, 1 @ M
Smit- 1 + 1 female cut
Dan- 2 XL, 1 female cut, 1 3t kids
Eduardo- 1
Brent- 2 L ?
Tare- 1
John- 2?
Bluto- 2 XL different colors, 1 small
Kevin- 2 @ 2XL
Joe- 1 @XL
FYI for everyone else Brent is kindly checking with FirstToy on the design aspect and will report back when he finds something out.
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DirtyRice Joe said:Slomo said:
Man with all of that color talk you could give Candice Olsen a run for her money! Er, I mean a.....
Yeah, I am married too.
If you hit the quote tab at the bottom right of a post, it will save you some time. It took me a couple of months to figure that out.
Hey, I uh...well, I don't know if you guys have already committed to a person to design the logo. If you have, great, but if you haven't, would you mind if I took a crack at it?
You can always say no. I won't be offended.
I do a little photochoppin' here and there, and I think maybe I can do something with what it is you guys are looking for. This is some stuff I've played with...this stuff is actually closer to a year old and I've coem a long way since then. Not to mention that these are just examples of the stuff I was learning.
Simple three color stencil of an 80 (it took me like three minutes, and looks it)
FJ45 Kenya: I took a picture of a 45 that I saw on Mud and put it with a stock photo of a Masai warrior in Kenya, flattened it, played with bleeding the lines, added a little color, and, well, it's not perfect, but like I said, I was learning.
I do a little bit of flattened/stencil stuff, it's kind of been an interest of mine. Here is some non-Cruiser stuff I've done...
Che Guevara (this is actually a physical stencil)
Hunter Thompson (also a physical stencil, Sharpie marker on manila envelope)
Gorilla Fighter (this is a photoshop that I made into a stencil)...you may recognize this from a t-shirt made by Fuct, as they seem to have *ahem* conveniently made a t-shirt (for the last five years) that looks exactly like my design, which I assure you is original (if only two years old). Somebody brought this to my attention recently. Do I think it's plagiarism? No. How could I? Unless they got a time machine (hmmmm). I never saw the original, or if I did, I don't remember. Weird-ass coincidence...in any case, I think mine's better.
All right, so now that that's out of the way, can I make your ******* t-shirt? I promise I'll do something FUN with it. If you don't like it, you don't have to use it!
Whatchoo got to lose?
You can always say no. I won't be offended.
I do a little photochoppin' here and there, and I think maybe I can do something with what it is you guys are looking for. This is some stuff I've played with...this stuff is actually closer to a year old and I've coem a long way since then. Not to mention that these are just examples of the stuff I was learning.
Simple three color stencil of an 80 (it took me like three minutes, and looks it)
FJ45 Kenya: I took a picture of a 45 that I saw on Mud and put it with a stock photo of a Masai warrior in Kenya, flattened it, played with bleeding the lines, added a little color, and, well, it's not perfect, but like I said, I was learning.
I do a little bit of flattened/stencil stuff, it's kind of been an interest of mine. Here is some non-Cruiser stuff I've done...
Che Guevara (this is actually a physical stencil)
Hunter Thompson (also a physical stencil, Sharpie marker on manila envelope)
Gorilla Fighter (this is a photoshop that I made into a stencil)...you may recognize this from a t-shirt made by Fuct, as they seem to have *ahem* conveniently made a t-shirt (for the last five years) that looks exactly like my design, which I assure you is original (if only two years old). Somebody brought this to my attention recently. Do I think it's plagiarism? No. How could I? Unless they got a time machine (hmmmm). I never saw the original, or if I did, I don't remember. Weird-ass coincidence...in any case, I think mine's better.
All right, so now that that's out of the way, can I make your ******* t-shirt? I promise I'll do something FUN with it. If you don't like it, you don't have to use it!
Whatchoo got to lose?
You are certainly welcome to take a crack at it. See the 'endless summer' post earlier in this thread. I think general consensus is to use that with surfboards on an 80 series cruiser, loose the people and put something like SoCal Cruisers up top and perhaps 'In Search of the Perfect Trail' below. I have contacted someone to give us some ideas, but you are welcome to join the fray.
Shahram, I'm always surprised when I find you out of "chat".
Sounds good to me, should be interesting to see what comes from that mind of yours. I like the fact that you own and wheel an 80, live in LA, and of course have artistic abilities. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
Who knows, maybe you can convert us to Shahrislam.......hmm, come to think of it, I already follow most of the pillars Shahrislam!
And maybe we can get you to join us on an upcoming run. We'll call it a pilgrimage.
Sounds good to me, should be interesting to see what comes from that mind of yours. I like the fact that you own and wheel an 80, live in LA, and of course have artistic abilities. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
Who knows, maybe you can convert us to Shahrislam.......hmm, come to think of it, I already follow most of the pillars Shahrislam!
And maybe we can get you to join us on an upcoming run. We'll call it a pilgrimage.
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Sounds good to me too. I look forward to the end result. I think it will be pretty cool to have our own logo. We are hitting the big time.
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I forgot. Shahram is it possible to clean up the lines of the first one to show a "little" more detail?
The first pic would be nice on the back of the shirt 
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I dont know about cleaning up the lines much. The more you clean that image the more youll see Shahrams face in the DS holding the steering wheel .
Im guessing its Shahs rig.
I think the second image is cool too - but the dude with the spear doesnt really apply to SoCal (unless we plan on taking the 80s to the Motherland. )
.I dont know about cleaning up the lines much. The more you clean that image the more youll see Shahrams face in the DS holding the steering wheel
.Im guessing its Shahs rig.
I think the second image is cool too - but the dude with the spear doesnt really apply to SoCal (unless we plan on taking the 80s to the Motherland.
)All right...
Yeah, I can clean up that first pic to show more detail. I have the original, as it's my rig.
Here's what I've come up with so far. Going off your "Endless Summer" idea, which, I have to admit is a special piece of graphic art to me. I had the poster up in my room as a kid for many years. That is probably my favorite movie, and I've seen it about three hundred times. Anyway, here's what I came up with so far:
I'm not crazy about the font...now that I'm really looking at it online, there's a few things that aren't quite right...okay work in progress.
Any suggestions?
Yeah, I can clean up that first pic to show more detail. I have the original, as it's my rig.
Here's what I've come up with so far. Going off your "Endless Summer" idea, which, I have to admit is a special piece of graphic art to me. I had the poster up in my room as a kid for many years. That is probably my favorite movie, and I've seen it about three hundred times. Anyway, here's what I came up with so far:
I'm not crazy about the font...now that I'm really looking at it online, there's a few things that aren't quite right...okay work in progress.
Any suggestions?
In no certain order:
agree with you on the font. Font like Woody's IH8MUD he uses to 'stamp' posted pics? This is where we've all met.
surf boards on a roof rack?
get an 80 with expedition front (arb) and rear bumper, not a stock bumper and sliders.
possible wave/ocean for the horizon?
I'd stick with the exact wording from the original poster - In Search of the Perfect Trail.
I liked the beige/orange color combo of Surf n Turf's endless summer.
agree with you on the font. Font like Woody's IH8MUD he uses to 'stamp' posted pics? This is where we've all met.
surf boards on a roof rack?
get an 80 with expedition front (arb) and rear bumper, not a stock bumper and sliders.
possible wave/ocean for the horizon?
I'd stick with the exact wording from the original poster - In Search of the Perfect Trail.
I liked the beige/orange color combo of Surf n Turf's endless summer.
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Brentbba said:
Funny you should mention that font...that was the original font that I used and it looked a lot better, but I second-guessed myself and changed it.
Colors: no problem Beige/orange...yeah that sounds good.
Bumpers/roof rack/surfboard: I'll have to find a good, high-contrast 1/2 side-view profile of an 80 with that equipment. I could do my own, since it's ARB'd in front and Kaymar'd in back. I have an 11' longboard that would go well on top and actually show up in the pic...I'll have to draw in an expedition roof rack, which shouldn't be too hard. Sliders won't show up in the pic, unless you're doing something a lot more detailed...or willing to draw a hig-contrast version, which is out of my capability.
Wave/Ocean in the background: Hmmmm...that's a little more complicated. The flattened "horizon" of the original poster creates a horizon for the purposes of the viewer. The artist only has to reconcile two horizontal perspectives: the foreground and the background. Add waves in the background as a third layer, and you run the risk of looking too cut and pasted. A third perspective could throw the whole thing off. I will try though...it sounds good in theory.
Gimme a couple of days on this, and I'll see what I can pull off. In the meantime, I'd like to try a couple of different things. I'll submit them as they're made.
Holy s***, I just got a good idea...I'll get back to you by tomorrow.
I see what you mean re the horizon.
I too have your same set up and can borrow a surfboard or two. I don't have a roof rack right now either.
I could certainly get to a beach and snap some photos tho. We could even wait until SnT this year and get some great beach shots.
I too have your same set up and can borrow a surfboard or two. I don't have a roof rack right now either.
I could certainly get to a beach and snap some photos tho. We could even wait until SnT this year and get some great beach shots.
You an english major or engineer? hehehe
This is a rough draft. We'll run it by the english major's later.
Seriously, we could and perhaps should just say SoCal Cruisers since we've got more than 80 series folks.
What say you all?
This is a rough draft. We'll run it by the english major's later.
Seriously, we could and perhaps should just say SoCal Cruisers since we've got more than 80 series folks.
What say you all?
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