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American Parkour frontpage Banner Contest
« on: March 01, 2007, 01:12:23 PM »
We have 14 entries that qualify for the APK frontpage banner contest. Thanks to everyone who submitted an entry!



Please discuss the entires to help us decide on 5 finalists which will be put up for voting.
« Last Edit: March 02, 2007, 09:07:59 AM by M2 »
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Re: American Parkour frontpage Banner Contest
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2007, 02:52:36 PM »
I'm a fan of 2, 3, 8. However, the one I would choose for a banner would be #12. It's a nice simple concept of jumping, which we all know is important in parkour.
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Re: American Parkour frontpage Banner Contest
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2007, 04:53:11 PM »
i like 7/8 and 11 the most.

i also dig 14, and to a lesser extent 3, but that's biased because they are mine. 
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Re: American Parkour frontpage Banner Contest
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2007, 05:47:39 PM »
By the way, I can change the picture used in eleven, if needed. Also, if by some odd chance it goes through, I'd like to be able to clean it up a bit.

2, 5, 10, and 12 are my favorites, not including 11.
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Re: American Parkour frontpage Banner Contest
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2007, 05:47:57 PM »
#5 by Jimi Glide "railvault"

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Re: American Parkour frontpage Banner Contest
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2007, 09:32:30 PM »
My favorite is #8 Leon's "Move as One".
I also really liked 2, 3, and 10.

Great work guys!

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Re: American Parkour frontpage Banner Contest
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2007, 09:48:58 PM »
yeah i gotta go with one of leon's. looks the most professional to me.

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Re: American Parkour frontpage Banner Contest
« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2007, 10:19:40 PM »
i think sunjump and monkeyflow look the best.
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Re: American Parkour frontpage Banner Contest
« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2007, 08:08:25 AM »
I like #8 by Leon, but the typography / text placement is pretty bad ;]
Otherwise I would really like #6 if it had a different photo [like said.] So my vote is for #6.

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Re: American Parkour frontpage Banner Contest
« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2007, 09:14:54 AM »
I really like leons but 11 (demons?) is pretty cool too

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Re: American Parkour frontpage Banner Contest
« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2007, 09:16:51 AM »
APK has a very Clean and simple design.  I think number 12 matches the site the best while still conveying Parkour well.  11 and Leon's do the same as well.

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Re: American Parkour frontpage Banner Contest
« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2007, 12:04:13 PM »
yeah, 12 goes very well with current blue/white background of the site and blends well with the APK logo. 5 is also very clean too.

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Re: American Parkour frontpage Banner Contest
« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2007, 02:00:05 PM »
11 is mine, Zeus. I just don't have any pictures of myself, so I searched the APK picture database. Hope he doesn't mind.

Personally, I think I could clean up the logo itself a little bit more, lighted up the scan lines, and maybe put a different picture in. Possibly a different border as well.

Also, I like both of LeonN's, but I think they should be mixed. I enjoy the effect in the top right of #7, but I don't like the snow effect in it. And I like the words in #8 a bit more too.
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Re: American Parkour frontpage Banner Contest
« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2007, 03:07:34 PM »
Neon, I totally agree about Leon's, I would combine the two just as you said!
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Re: American Parkour frontpage Banner Contest
« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2007, 06:02:02 PM »
I really like #11,  aside from the yellow border. Looks nice! All the other ones are really good too but need a wee bit more in terms of editing.


Ahhh fine I'll combine them  ;) Thanks for the comments! I'll link to it here when im done.


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Re: American Parkour frontpage Banner Contest
« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2007, 06:46:52 PM »
Ahhh fine I'll combine them  ;) Thanks for the comments! I'll link to it here when im done.

How about a border LeoNn?
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Re: American Parkour frontpage Banner Contest
« Reply #16 on: March 02, 2007, 08:55:05 PM »
Nice work Leon, looks great!

I vote for Leon's new and improved pic.

Edit:
After looking at a bunch of these again, I think it'd be cool to rotate them ocasionally because their are so many good designs.
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Re: American Parkour frontpage Banner Contest
« Reply #17 on: March 03, 2007, 06:09:53 AM »

(#7, free) - great composition!  i'd prefer it without the grain and text on the left and i like the more contrasty logo color used in #8.  i can see some photoshopped motion trails really spicing this one up.  (a la those nokia ads UF did: http://www.urbanfreeflow.com/media/images/asid_large.jpg)




LeoNn edits: I am SOOO Sorry but I accidentally hit the "Edit" button instead of "Quote" and started writing my reply. I then hit save and didn't realize I didn't make a new post until I couldn't find mine... then I saw yours and I Was like uh oh...

I had the quote copied onto my clipboard so at least that one was there, please forgive me for erasing the rest if you remember what you wrote please write it again!
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Re: American Parkour frontpage Banner Contest
« Reply #18 on: March 03, 2007, 07:42:06 AM »
my qualms with monkey flow is the prevault, i really think it looks excellent but im not so hot on that part.
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Re: American Parkour frontpage Banner Contest
« Reply #19 on: March 03, 2007, 09:02:21 AM »
#9 #11 #12  are very good  because you cant really identify the person so its a good general representation of parkour.


I like #10 alot but theres too many pictures to really focus on  so  you just gloss over it.