Greenwich & Meridian logo challenge

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All the board (or bored) of director members unanimously agreed that the Greenwich & Meridian should be the name of our global railroad. Thank you all that voted in the poll. We now have a new challenge, that being the design of a new logo or herald. For this, we are going to solicit your ideas and design talents.

Here’s what we’d like to do:

For those of you with design abilities, feel free to come up with a set of G&M logos and logotypes that would fit any era railroad. Perhaps we could have an early and modern style; maybe just one would work for all.

For those of you with little or no design ability, we ask that all you come up with is perhaps a sketch of what you’d like to see and perhaps a suggested font style, and we can take if from there to formalize your idea.

The rules are few:

• Make up your logos, or ideas and post them here. If you are feeling shy about it, you can PM or email me and let me know what you have in mind. If you just have an idea, I’ll see if I can put that idea into what you’re looking for, and then with your OK, I can post the results here on your behalf.
  
• You can post (or send to me) as many sets of logos and logotypes, or ideas as may come to you. If you have more than one idea, put them in separate posts please.
  
• We will give everyone a month to do this, once that happens, we will open a voting poll to see what everyone likes the most. If there are a lot of entries, like there was in the naming thread, we might have a preliminary poll to narrow the list down to around ten to choose from.
  
• This challenge is open to everyone including the Big Blue staff.
  
• The only prize is bragging rights and knowing that your artwork will grace trains in all the Greenwich & Meridian railroads.
  
• The winner gives Big Blue Train Forums and its members the right to use, copy and distribute the artwork without recourse, or in other words, the artwork becomes public domain without normal copyright protections.
  
• Once a logo set is chosen, we will make available, an artwork sheet in each scale that can be used to make paper or decal copies to apply to cars and engines.

A few guidelines:

• Simplicity is better. Remember, a lot of modelers are going to have to reproduce these to apply to their cars and engines.
  
• The fewer colors the better. Black and white can be printed on any kind of printer. Darker colors work best on decal paper.
  
• The results should look good on any scale, we don’t have many z scalers, but N, HO and up to G is common here, so details that are too small won’t look good in N, and too small of a resolution could get pixilated in O or G scale.

Good luck everyone, we are excited about this railroad concept and are looking forward to this next step.