Voting Day on my DSB logo's

Today I have a personal question. Today there is a voting for the best logo for the crowdsourcingmovie 'DSB the movie'. AEster made 3 logo's and anybody who would like to help and vote for one of them I send my regards. you don't need to much more then to vote for a logo. You can vote once a time for each logo. Remember this isn't a  contest for money. I won't get payed if mine will get used!

Here is the place to be!!

Thank you all!!

How to get an animation to 'play' on your blog .........

This time I wanted to know why my animated gif images didn't work on our blog. As we make also animated gif's wich we use for various things in SL. I was wondering why I couldn't get them working on the blog. And after a 'google' around the world I found a rather good tutorial for it.

I will just give the link because it is farely well written and I don't want to take credits for his work

How to put an anitmated gif in your bloggerpost!!!

But I am happy to announce that from now we will be able to upload all our animated gif images and with that we can even better show you what we create and what we are cappable of in Second Life.

InSync is becomming more versitile then it ever was!!!

If you want to check us out inworld?? ........................................

Mynt! Classy, sexy beach club......in chic surroundings!

This time we were involved in the making off a new logo for Nico1000 Twine's new club. As she already had a name and the club was already builded it was just to find out whatever she wanted the club to feel like. It is always a challenge to 'get' the right feeling. it's important to visitors that go into search or look at your picks. This time I got some neat new ideas with a glowing, neon kinda look. Inworld we set the boards even to have a green light and when get your settings to midnight it looks awesome. In addition to this we even made some quite well working annimated textures. And when you become a member you even get to wear the kewl MyntMembershipCard! Curious?? Follow the mynty's...............................

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Design Tutorial: Were To Find Recourses

To make either logo's or textures for your buildings or to make any other graphic-design you will need to have recourses. First thing you will need to know is that you need to be aware of any copyinfignement. You are only allowed to use any photo's of the web if they especially give permissions to allow you to use it. There are of course also the 'payed' websites wich provide a wide range of photo's video's and vectors. But as SL ins't a very big recourse of money right away you can start to search for free photo's out there. And since I am from Holland I have a nose for free stuff. We never pay to much even worse we try to get it for free.

There are several different things you can use within either textures or logo's or your other designs. Since one year I am also trying to make a living of making webdesigns so I became a memeber of the glossy 'WebDesigner'. Each month they provide a cd with nice content you are free to use. Fonts, brushes, photo's, gradients, shapes you name it and they give it. But since not everyone is buying this I will provide some of my resources. I am a user of photoshop so that is what my resources provide me.

* One of my great providers is 'LadyOak', after you made an account (very easy) you can get the greatest shapes, brushes, excellent gradients and all kind of styles. You will need to have a look at their site because it is really great.

*Since it's beginning long time ago 'Obsedian Dawn' has become one of the biggest recourses with photoshop brushes I have ever seen. They are really great! some of them are even wonderfull and stunning.

* Because Frederic builds the most incredible buildings we often need some very specific textures. And because I don't like that fact that we would use any SL free textures (nor will I pay for anytexture) I will have to make them myself. I use various sources for those. But only completely legal ones. For the Haunted House I used colorlovers. There you can make wonderfull patterns yourself with the colors you like. it's a great recourse in anyway.

*As a LogoMaker I often need a nice font to make it complete. Sometimes it takes sometime to find the thing you are excactly looking for. 1001 Free fonts has a lot of different styles. easily downgraded by style or by name. The majority of fonts on this website are freeware, but a small percentage are shareware so if you decide to keep any shareware fonts please register them. Registration information can be found on the readme.txt file attached

Just remember in any case that there are so many recources out there but always stay within the rules and don't use things people don't want to share. It's not legal and it's no fun!!!

-InSync- Norvern Monkey Logo

Therese Slade asked Insync to create a new logo for her great Indie club. She was very precise about what she wanted and we created the right thing. The Norvern is a great place to be. Its very friendly and with musiclovers from all over the world. Therese keeps out drama as far as she can and it is just a great place to be!

-InSync- Logo: Cafe at Da Vinci Isle

Da Vinci Isle has opened as from today. As known it has a big affliation with art. Besides giving RL and SL artist the opportunity to have exhibitions there are more ways to come in contact with art. As from now the Bookworm Cafe will have as they call it in Paris 'Café de Theatre' you will be able to sit together and have the chance to hear poetry in all it's beauty.

-InSync- created the logo. we tried to give the cafe it's own look but stayed with the Da Vinci Isle-feeling. 

-Opening Soon- Da Vinci Isle

-Insync- has done some major jobs for the brand new sim: Da Vinci Island. They will be having their grand-opening on 14 February 2009. Da Vinci Isle is an exhibition and events center. Keywords are: exhibition centre, displaying of art (inworld aswell as 1stlife) paintings, artists and of course there will be possibility to buy the art too. 

One of the first assignments was to get their logo out. We created a logo with the feel of art, of Da Vinci Isle and to make give it a clean look aswell.

You can find Da Vinci Isle here.

Da Vinci Isle is very close related to Vitruvius, the are journal for the metaverse!

Design Tutorial: Logo's and Fonts

Logo making is a passion of me. I haven’t really had classes for it but I can say that I have learned a lot in the past. I am self-made. That does not mean that designing is just a matter of ‘good’ taste or an Eye for this kind of things.

There are important rules eventhough there is a lot to say about taste.

As the blogtitle implicaties in this part of the tutorial I want to say something about fonts.

There are several typefaces in fonts:

Each of them says something about their styles. This is important to know because it can give you a clue about the style that the customer wants to bring over to the client.

Genuinly we use Roman Typefaces and they can be devided in several subfaces.

Serif Typefaces are named for the features at the ends of their strokes. Times Roman, Garamond are very common examples of serif. They give a very classic, traditional and formal look to your design.

Sans Serif typefaces are relatively new in the historie of typografy. Well known and popular are Arial, Helvetica and Futura. They give designs a very modern and clean look.

Script Typefaces simulate handwriting. They are mostly not used to do enorm amounts of body tekst. They can be used for logo’s or invitations. Script typefaces can be hard to read so that is surely something you need to focus on if you want to use one of these. Often they look very elegant and feminine.

These are the main typefaces but there are many more. Like ornamentals wich contain only decorative or symbols as characters. In monospaced typefaces all of the characters have the same width. They are used when excact spacing is required. An example of this is Courier.

You will have to consider all the typefaces when you want to make a logo. It will be of importante to know what typeface will give what implication to your design. In other words like a grunge typeface won’t work for a lawyer-logo.

The logo needs to look as one, as something well overthought and a good logo can be ruined by a wrong font!

-InSync- Habitats By J&B Logo

Habitats by J&B, wich are Jade Eiren and Bubster Box, have decided that they wanted to sell their Habitats in SL. The provided logo -InSync - made had to give an idea of what they sell.

So what do they sell?? Habitats are spaces that provide a fairytale of its own. They are founded on a DomeShape and inside of that they created a  habitat. This way you can have your mermaid-lagoon, your fairytale-forrest or your winter wonderland at every place you are able to rez it. They will each come in 2 sizes..40x40 and 22x22besides that they included gadgets like mermaid AO's, skates and many things more. 

The Logo gives an idea of the habitatshape and the feeling of what's inside of it. 

Please check them out at their new store:

Habitats by J&B at Dublin

PopScene-Warehouse Logo

When Jessie Sands Re-Opened The amazing PopScene and WareHouse InSync made some of the new logo's for it. We just kept the old logo and refreshed it with asome additions. 

-InSync- Logo: What We Wear

After having a serious break-down with the clothes-making-business. I started to get back on track because I just like doing it so much. Eventhough I don't have much time for it and InSync is asking a lot of time I still have my own business. But it needed some refreshments too. So here is the new *AE* Logo.

InSync logo

When we just met we didn't even know we had so much in common.  Fred was building the Haunted House and was in need of some textures. When he introduced me to the people that asked for the building he called me his personal texture-maker. Wich was totally bull-shit because I never had made one single texture in my life. at least not one to texture a building. But as he was building and I was harrassing him all the time. Then he asked me to make a texture. and I am so sure he did because he was fed up with my witty remarks. So I said I would give it a try ......................... And I made another one and another one and even then another one. After finishing it we did a while nothing but we started a new project, and another and another and before we knew we where having kinda of a what you can call a business.

So we were in need of a logo. We had both some rough times. And we felt completely Synchrone with each other. Ofcourse we fight ..................... call each other bad names ...................... but after all we always get back InSync. The Logo represents that feeling. It is a kindof merge of two ying-yang figures. Representing the two individuals we are and  together we create beauty ......................