Needles & Grooves AoTM : General thread & archive

[Skalap]

It says "vinyl" in Japanese. Wanted something which made it feel Japanese-y in the vein of classic Obi strips.

Really? I thought it was a human body! It looks so great and it's even better now knowing what it means!

 

[tonythegamer]

How's this?

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I also like that you added Skalaps' picture in the OBI strip. This is amazing!

 

[Enoch]

I have dropped it, no need to hammer it home to me

 

[Alexander]

It's beautiful. Maybe the avatar should be presented in a circle, like on the forum, and it will remind of the shape of a record ?

That was my original intention, but when I copied it, it copied as a square. Again, easily fixed - I can just screenshot the circular one and paste it in.

 

[agutierrezb]

How's this?

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I love the direction this design is going! Is this layout just the front, or is the yellow strip the spine (therefor making the right part the front of the obi and the lef portion the back)?

 

[Alexander]

I love the direction this design is going! Is this layout just the front, or is the yellow strip the spine (therefor making the right part the front of the obi and the lef portion the back)?

The yellow is indeed the spine

 

[agutierrezb]

The yellow is indeed the spine

If so, then I would suggest moving some things. I think the artist and album title, along with the volume and N&G logo should be in the front, while the picker's name, avatar and write-up at the back. Im not a huge fan of the Japanese thing, I believe it is taking up some valuable space at the front while not adding any substance, but that is just my view. I like the idea of adding some words on the back like you're doing here. I think we should ask the month's picker to write something specifically for that purpose with a set limit of words.

One more important thing: we should have the staff's aproval before going forward with this design, since we're using the logo, name and color scheme of the forum.

 

[tonythegamer]

If so, then I would suggest moving some things. I think the artist and album title, along with the volume and N&G logo should be in the front, while the picker's name, avatar and write-up at the back. Im not a huge fan of the Japanese thing, I believe it is taking up some valuable space at the front while not adding any substance, but that is just my view. I like the idea of adding some words on the back like you're doing here. I think we should ask the month's picker to write something specifically for that purpose with a set limit of words.

One more important thing: we should have the staff's aproval before going forward with this design, since we're using the logo, name and color scheme of the forum.

Japanese thing could be on the top of the spine in black with a vol number? Then the album name and volume of AOTM is on the front? Kind of want to see how that looks. I feel like the N&G Logo is fine on the spine.

 

[Enoch]

One more important thing: we should have the staff's aproval before going forward with this design, since we're using the logo, name and color scheme of the forum.

They are trying to trademark.

 

[agutierrezb]

They are trying to trademark.

Then having their blessing is very important. We can have a design in the meantime, but wait until we have their aproval to really get this rolling.

 

[agutierrezb]

@Alexander what font are you using? I'm doing a quick mockup and could use the right font.

 

[Alexander]

@Alexander what font are you using? I'm doing a quick mockup and could use the right font.

Alvaro, I got it from DaFont.

 

[agutierrezb]

Ok, here's my crappy mockup. I went in the same direction as @Alexander, just played around a bit with the information included and its position within the design. I think this should be the way to go: agree on what info to include, and then try different layouts with that.

 

[Murfocakes]

This is the a rough draft I came up with since my previous post:

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This is a beautiful thing. Well done. Honoured to be attached to this.

 

[Teeeee]

I just want to be sure I don't eff this up. I am picking the album for August. On August 1, @Goatfish will create the thread. I will give hints. @Goatfish will keep track of guesses, be my hype-person (I hope you do me proud!) and all around thread wizard. I will then reveal my pick on August 25 with my poorly written reasons. You all will buy said album. We discuss how much we all love it until the end of the month. And on Sept 1, the next person picks and I run that thread.

Please correct me if I'm mistaken about any of this.

 

[duke86fan]

I just want to be sure I don't eff this up. I am picking the album for August. On August 1, @Goatfish will create the thread. I will give hints. @Goatfish will keep track of guesses, be my hype-person (I hope you do me proud!) and all around thread wizard. I will then reveal my pick on August 25 with my poorly written reasons. You all will buy said album. We discuss how much we all love it until the end of the month. And on Sept 1, the next person picks and I run that thread.

Please correct me if I'm mistaken about any of this.

from what i know its you create the first post, so you are able to put your liner notes at the very first post at the announcement day. the previous person does the 2nd post which is the guesses and then has an archive of the original post

 

[duke86fan]

Ok, here's my crappy mockup. I went in the same direction as @Alexander, just played around a bit with the information included and its position within the design. I think this should be the way to go: agree on what info to include, and then try different layouts with that.

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person i think this is the best option we got so far... its very pretty and has a wonderful design to it (especially the user at the top and their name underneath the picture)...

but so we dont get anyone spoiling.. we can maybe reveal it to them maybe the day right before we announce it so no one is given the announcement right away (and they have to promise to not tell anyone)

 

[Joe Mac]

I just want to be sure I don't eff this up. I am picking the album for August. On August 1, @Goatfish will create the thread. I will give hints. @Goatfish will keep track of guesses, be my hype-person (I hope you do me proud!) and all around thread wizard. I will then reveal my pick on August 25 with my poorly written reasons. You all will buy said album. We discuss how much we all love it until the end of the month. And on Sept 1, the next person picks and I run that thread.

Please correct me if I'm mistaken about any of this.

I can’t wait! You will clearly pick the most fun album we’ve had for a while

 

[duke86fan]

we all know @Teeeee picked paula abduls forever your girl

 

[ChristoBee]

from what i know its you create the first post, so you are able to put your liner notes at the very first post at the announcement day. the previous person does the 2nd post which is the guesses and then has an archive of the original post

Yup, @duke86fan has it right, you create the thread so you can have the first post(s) then @Goatfish will take the following post(s) to run the guesses.