UMA Logo Concept Design

[Sean]

I've loving the new T-shirt design ideas.  I'm absolutely in to purchase whatever gets produced.

[fmofmpls]

Sorry I meant well.

No harm done Fritz. And yes, we certainly know you meant well too. It's just as Raymond has already stated, we can barely discuss the previous t-shirt without placing ourselves at harms reach. That was a chapter in UMA history that's buried 6' deep - much like a blood-sucking vampire with a stake through its heart and a "do not disturb" sign hanging from it's neck.  

[michblk]

I hope this isn't a stupid question, but should I quit wearing mine at conventions and stuff?  Not sure if it would bring unwanted attention to the group.

BK

[CreepyJeff]

Hey Brian - any previously purchased (and in your possession) may and should be worn with pride.  The cease and desist dealt with future sales and the unsold shirts.  For the record, all of the unsold shirts have been destroyed by yours truly.  

On a happier topic, KEEP THE UMA SHIRT DESIGNS COMING.  I think we're all digging the UMA letters on the front and Friends...good on the back.  But I would love to see more artistic renditions of the letters UMA.  In the near future, we can have a pool of designs as "finalists" and then take a vote on the most popular.  

[Sean]

KEEP THE UMA SHIRT DESIGNS COMING.  I think we're all digging the UMA letters on the front and Friends...good on the back.  But I would love to see more artistic renditions of the letters UMA.  In the near future, we can have a pool of designs as "finalists" and then take a vote on the most popular.  

    I'm just brain storming, so forgive me if my ideas aren't complete... but I'm just going to throw out some ideas and maybe 1 of them works for somebody... or maybe 1 of them in turn triggers somebody else to come up with the mother of ideas...

    I was looking at bat pictures/ images.  They come in all sorts of shapes, depending on the angle and the position of the wings, etc.....  Some of them could form the letters U, M and A.

    I was also looking at the American Sign Language finger-spelling alphabet...  you could use the finger spelling hand signs for the letters U, M and A.  The hands could be MONSTER hands, e.g., Frankenstein's Monster's hand signing the letter 'A'... and the Wolfman with 'M' and Dracula or the Mummy or the Creature with 'U'.

    I also thought of stacking the letters U, M and A in a VERTICAL line, and make them form Frankenstein's Monster-------the U would look like Mike C.'s 'U' with flatop hair and bolts and scars (it would be the head)... the M could be the torso, and if modified correctly would serve as a chest and arms (you could add little green hands at the bottoms of the 'arms')... and the A would be the legs with boots added to the bottoms of the 'legs'.

   Then you could splash 'It's ALIVE!' next to the letter-made monster on the front and put the 'Friends... Good' quote on the back.

    Please, anyone, feel free to do sketches and run with any of these ideas.  Mike C. has done an excellent job illustrating thus far.  I'd be honored if he (or anyone) took a crack at doing a rough draft of any of these ideas.

[raycastile]

Sean, I like the idea of a vertical UMA resembling a Frankenstein caricature.  So long as it was very abstract, no eyes, nose or mouth.  Just stylized letters giving the impression of a standing figure.  It might be something that seems better in the mind's eye than in reality, but I'd like to see someone with design skills give it a try.

[mike c]

I have always been wary of vertical text on clothing unless it's on a sleeve or something (design classes are always finding logo ID problems with it), but I really like the Frankenstein UMA idea, Sean, very nice image. I'll do some sketching on it a bit later... this is why I love input and brainstorming, so many cool ideas!

[Bogey]

    I was also looking at the American Sign Language finger-spelling alphabet...  you could use the finger spelling hand signs for the letters U, M and A.  The hands could be MONSTER hands, e.g., Frankenstein's Monster's hand signing the letter 'A'... and the Wolfman with 'M' and Dracula or the Mummy or the Creature with 'U'.

This might be kind of cool using the old Don Post Frankie hands, or are those off limits as well?

[Fester]

Many years ago, on a planet far away, I left home with a BA degree.  Eventually I ended up in Gradual School, where I gradually realized I had too much school.  That place was Washington State University--mascot: the Cougar. 
In the 1930s, a student devised a logo utilizing a Cougar made of W, S, C.  When it became a university in 1950 the college rotated one of the letters to make a U.
This is their current logo:


Maybe someone can make a monster out of UMA.
I'd try, but all I can draw is flies!

[raycastile]

I keep wondering if we really want to put any catch phrases from a Universal film on these shirts.  You wouldn't think we could get in trouble over "Friend...good," but who knows.  I wouldn't put anything passed the Universal lawyers.  I don't want to give them any ammunition to hit us again.

[monsterphile]

I made a homemade shirt before, although I used the wrong type of iron-on paper, so it didn't turn out quite right.  Apparently, there's a different one for dark shirts.  Anyway, I used a lower case text, something old-fashioned.  I think it was called Diploma maybe.  It said "got monsters" like the "got milk" ad campaign.  Just throwing in another idea.  I sometimes wear it when I go to yard sales.  Comes in handy when they ask what kind of stuff I'm looking for.  Sadly, they never seem to have much though...

[Sean]

Here's a bat shape that could easily be modified for the letter 'M'

[Sean]

Modify this image and you have your letter 'A'

[Sean]

Modify these bat shapes and you could have the letters 'U', 'M', 'A'


     

[Sean]

I have always been wary of vertical text on clothing unless it's on a sleeve or something (design classes are always finding logo ID problems with it), but I really like the Frankenstein UMA idea, Sean, very nice image. I'll do some sketching on it a bit later... this is why I love input and brainstorming, so many cool ideas!

    Oh, that's GREAT, Mike.  I'd love to see your creation of this!