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Re: Anubis Cycle logo - Looking for input
« Reply #50 on: December 31, 2005, 09:04:41 AM »
Kinda wish you'd put your web address in your tag line for dummies like me...
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« Reply #51 on: December 31, 2005, 09:27:54 AM »
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It is a collective of everyones ideas coming together all at once. Very cool.

Just like the Little People. A DVD my grandson watches, over, and over, and over, and.....  ;D
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Re: Anubis Cycle logo - Looking for input
« Reply #52 on: December 31, 2005, 01:47:27 PM »
Hey, el cheapo, I agree, #3 has the look and attitude..... 

here's one for your faceless corporate warehouse facade......

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« Reply #53 on: December 31, 2005, 03:23:42 PM »
I like that.... Nice.. I think I will sneak it in somewhere  ;D

I dont know if it was intentional, the pyramid that is the lost tomb of the Scorpion King is supposed to have a huge diamond on top, if you where following the block buster movie "The Mummy Returns"  ;D
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« Reply #54 on: December 31, 2005, 11:29:36 PM »
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Re: Anubis Cycle logo - Looking for input
« Reply #55 on: January 01, 2006, 08:17:49 PM »
Did a print up today and had to kill the blur around Anubis and tweak the big pyramid a bit to make it nicer. But things are looking up.

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« Reply #56 on: January 01, 2006, 09:20:17 PM »
Well you sure got that sorted on the CHEAP.............o ;D ;D ;D
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« Reply #57 on: January 01, 2006, 09:24:22 PM »
cheapo~ great work and good process.  if you were going to school for architecture you'd get an A for process! 

anyway, thought i'd chime in at the last moment... on your latest design... the shadowing goes outside of the bounding circle.  my eye went there before it went everywhere else.  just take your paintbrush and white that out for me will ya?  btw, its on the lower right portion.

looks good

hey chippy... i like your design as well
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Re: Anubis Cycle logo - Looking for input
« Reply #58 on: January 02, 2006, 09:28:21 AM »
Righto' Heffay, that was the very part I fixed. Good perception there  ;)

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Re: Anubis Cycle logo - Looking for input
« Reply #59 on: January 02, 2006, 01:50:45 PM »
I was going to wait and see how long it took you to notice... not sure which little round headed guy to put here.
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Re: Anubis Cycle logo - Looking for input
« Reply #60 on: January 02, 2006, 02:06:31 PM »
I was going to wait and see how long it took you to notice... not sure which little round headed guy to put here.

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Re: Anubis Cycle logo - Looking for input
« Reply #61 on: January 02, 2006, 02:08:10 PM »
Personly, I thought the shadowing/blur round the head was better. 8)
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« Reply #62 on: January 02, 2006, 02:17:38 PM »
Personly, I thought the shadowing/blur round the head was better. 8)

It was on screen, but it got pretty muddy when printing. I will use the blur one for the web and the crisp one for print.

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« Reply #63 on: January 02, 2006, 02:40:56 PM »
OK, I can live with that. ;)
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Re: Anubis Cycle logo - Looking for input
« Reply #64 on: January 02, 2006, 08:17:47 PM »
Hey El cheapo,  have you tried your logo with a black background/ white or gold "anubis"???
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Re: Anubis Cycle logo - Looking for input
« Reply #65 on: January 02, 2006, 08:26:30 PM »
Hey El cheapo,  have you tried your logo with a black background/ white or gold "anubis"???

Yes I did. Didn't like it really.

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Re: Anubis Cycle logo - Looking for input
« Reply #66 on: January 02, 2006, 10:20:17 PM »
Can I have a sticker for the cupboard in my garage?
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Re: Anubis Cycle logo - Looking for input
« Reply #67 on: January 02, 2006, 10:23:21 PM »
Sure you can.

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Re: Anubis Cycle logo - Looking for input
« Reply #68 on: January 03, 2006, 02:56:34 AM »
Well, I've catched this thread a little late. I think the last sketch (the one that is now as Cheapo's avatar) is good, but I think most of the people will just associate Anubis with Egypt, but will not catch the relationship between Anubis' role and the fact of motorcycle parts being reused.

One theme I've always liked, though it is very known, is the Phoenix legend, the bird that set himselfs on fire to reborn again up from the ashes. How about that? The old bikes, having been stored for 20 years, getting rusted, gets in your hands and relive again in your customer's bikes.

The problem with "Phoenix Cycle" is that people will tend to think you are in AZ... unless you really live in Phoenix...


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Re: Anubis Cycle logo - Looking for input
« Reply #69 on: January 03, 2006, 07:28:02 AM »
Well, I've catched this thread a little late. I think the last sketch (the one that is now as Cheapo's avatar) is good, but I think most of the people will just associate Anubis with Egypt, but will not catch the relationship between Anubis' role and the fact of motorcycle parts being reused.

One theme I've always liked, though it is very known, is the Phoenix legend, the bird that set himselfs on fire to reborn again up from the ashes. How about that? The old bikes, having been stored for 20 years, getting rusted, gets in your hands and relive again in your customer's bikes.

The problem with "Phoenix Cycle" is that people will tend to think you are in AZ... unless you really live in Phoenix...


Raul

I agree Raul. Funny thing is when I do mention Anubis Cycle, people do get the jist of it. The Phoenix legend was actually one I had thought of. But when I showed it to people, they immeadiately went down the Hardley Furgeuson road. So you see the problem in that.  ;)

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« Reply #70 on: January 03, 2006, 07:43:38 AM »
If you are going to deal mainly with jap bikes, why not naming the business with something related? Something like "RB cycles", "RS Cycles" or "JNC Cycles" (Where RB, RS and JNC means Rice Burner, Rising Sun and Jap-Not-Crap respectively) Run away from "Cafe", "Chop" and "Custom", they are gonna get abused well too often and you will just be one more on the crowd. Or something related to the "Dawn of the Dead", in which dead bikes return to life. You don't have to just sell parts; you are selling people the determination to get up from the couch and put that #$%*ty bike in the shed back to life. You have to sell tools, parts manuals, aprons, copper grease, Vegemite, Easy Cheese, beer, whatever they need. That way they can save on shipping and don't have to give their credit card number to a zillion companies. Get profit from your family name, as "Neubauer" means "New Builder" in german. Create a neat webpage, update it every two weeks so people can always find something new. Don't use flashy presentations, just black-over-white so people like me can browse through it from the office. If you can't afford SecureServer take the credit card numbers by phone so people know that their transactions will be secure, or simply Paypal. Don't do like those lazy sellers off eBay. Clean the parts before and picture them in a neat environment so it looks much better so you can ask for a higher price.

Too much for free advice. If you need more I'll give you my Paypal account name... ;-)

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Re: Anubis Cycle logo - Looking for input
« Reply #71 on: January 03, 2006, 08:15:51 AM »
Neubauer = New Builder? I didn't know that. Makes sense though with my history of business ventures.

I was trying to keep away from initials for the main part of the name.

The truth is on the selling goodies needed to make your bike go as far as tools go, there is a deal that I can get on board with Harbor Frieght tools for my inventory which would all be drop shipped so I don't have to keep inventory.

I hate those lazy eBay parts scabs. I always clean up parts before anyone ever gets to see them. The latest ones, I did up some tailight assemblies. Completely disassembled them, sandbalsted the base, and had them dunked in the electrocoat machine at my part time job. Gives rust prevention that the O.E. finish did not. Then they get a coat of satin finish automotive laquer. Another set of parts are some triple trees I did up. I had the local machine shop do a dye crack check/or magnaflux on the trees depending on what the were made of naturally, you cant magnaflux aluminum. Get them back clean em and they get the same treatment as the other parts.

On the web site I don't know if I will need a onsite shopping cart. The paypal thing will work on the transfer of money part, I just want to keep parts from double selling.

BTW: You should have your parts anyday now.

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Re: Anubis Cycle logo - Looking for input
« Reply #72 on: January 03, 2006, 08:20:31 AM »

BTW: You should have your parts anyday now.


Not before a week or two. The post has been flooded with presents and christmas cards lately so everything else has slowed down... I just received yesterday a magazine from France, and the stamp date was Dec. 2nd... It usually takes 2 to 5 days from anywhere in Europe...

What's wrong with initials?


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« Reply #73 on: January 03, 2006, 08:43:27 AM »
Well, initials work the same way "branding" with a logo does. If used in the early stages it will only confuse people. You see, if Pepsi had used only thier logo with no text in the early days people would have missed the point. Now we can through decades of marketing (God it takes people a long time to learn), we can pick the logo out even if there is no text. We have a Pepsi warehouse in Madison WI in which they only use the logo without the text. Unspoken but people know what it is.

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Re: Anubis Cycle logo - Looking for input
« Reply #74 on: January 06, 2006, 04:14:38 PM »
 ;D
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