TASClient Image work
Having the ugly distorted spring logo on my desktop for a while next to the pretty AFLobby and Spring Lobby icons, I knew I needed to do something about it. So I redid the spring icon, and Satirik adopted the icon, and made a new splash screen to suite.
This is all fine and dandy untill you realise that not all is good and fine:
- There’s already a project called ‘Spring Lobby’ which you can visit here.
- The icon is identical to that of spring.exe.
- It encourages the confusion of new users who can’t distinguish between tasclient and spring itself.
- It doesn’t give satirik and betalord due credit (a side effect of the above item) as new users immediately assume the spring developers made the program, and not that the program is a project in it’s own right.
- It isn’t exactly original.
So I set out to remedy this as shown below:
And the accompanying icon as shown here:
These are unofficial at the moment, and I hope satirik likes them enough to use them in his next version ^_^. There’s a second icon available that’s similar, but in my opinion it’s not as good, but I put it in, just in case someone disagrees.
Get TASClient images and icons here
UPDATE!
I made a few modifications to the 16×16 version of the icons to make them prettier after some feedback from betalord :
Get TASClient Images and Icons v2 here
December 3rd, 2007 at 5:03 am
The email bit is a bit annoying…
anyway, I like what you did there with the logo for the little load screen thing-ie. Can you kill some of that empty space above and below the main text? It seems a bit of a waste. Or at least put something in the lower right and upper left. It just feels lonely on the top and bottom.
December 3rd, 2007 at 9:10 am
yah, antispam akismet stuff
If it were put in, there’d be the loading progress text at the bottom. I suppose I could make the text and logo fill the top part but then it’d look wierd all stretched.
Sadly Satirik finds blue and red gradients offensive.
January 17th, 2008 at 6:52 am
well done man, i like the design
January 17th, 2008 at 7:39 am
In the end satirik took great offence and devised his own replacements.
Ironically they seem to fulfill the original goal of my new artwork so its a win-win situation for me.