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Re: Logo

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Gregor T Andrews wrote:
PSims wrote:Had another idea. As we have people from all over the world, how about a globe for a logo, with a spirit (ghost) gliding around the edge. We are free to join from anywhere after all.
I like that idea.

I don't like the idea of listing the countries where everyone is from - it's just asking for trouble as new folk join all the time (and existing members might leave).
Totally agree with everything Gregor says.

I just had a vision of a ghost on an ergo where the flywheel was a globe...
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Post by Tricia B »

I am half way through my work out and have come up with a logo I think might work for everyone.....We all eat, sleep and row (repeat)...but as a Free Spririt we (here is my idea for the logo).....


Row better, row farther, row faster with the invisible power of the Free Spirits in you!


or,


Unleash the power of the Free Spirits....row better, faster, farther!


what do you all think?

I'm in for a t-shirt too......Tricia
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I just had a vision of a ghost on an ergo where the flywheel was a globe...

That's IT!!!
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Post by Thomas W-P »

I am no artist. There must be one who can make this look good. Looks rubbish like this!
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Post by Gregor Andrews »

Nice idea Tom although the spirit/skunk thing needs some work.

I just noiticed Paul Miniato's quote that says:
Row, not wor

I thought that was quite clever.
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What I really like about this team is the way we develop ideas.
These are FAR better than I had in my mind!

You are correct Gregor about not bothering to list countries.

Love the globe on the C2.
The ghost looks somewhat like a SLUG!!!

Perfect !!!! :P
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Just completed a 30 min row whilst angry to try and use up the adrenaline and because I couldn't sleep. Fly and die at 25 mins but still a season PB of 7053.

I have a picture in prep along the lines of Thomas' except that I've taken the ghost character out of the Ghostbusters logo. Is that a breach of copyright?

Anyway a thought on a logo.

Free Spirits: Virtual: Global: Proud:
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Post by johnglynn »

I think the ghost on the machine with a globe on the front of the rower is a great idea.

I like the "virtually the best" motto also

Since it is a global team we could have the reverse of the picture at the back of the t-shirt. (I'm no artist so this might be very difficult / prohibitively expensive for t-shirt printing)

The globe on the front of the t-shirt could be centered around the Atlantic, as the majority of the Free Spirits are from Europe and North America.
On the back of the t-shirt you could have Asia, Australia, New Zealand etc.

The picture of the ghost on the back of the t-shirt would be from its other side.
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"Pain is just weakness leaving the body"

Think that from the French Foreign legion.

Tell that to my rugby teams :D

lots of good ideas, keep em coming, free forming development the only way to go!!
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Motto etc

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Woke at 3:40 this morning totally awake after a good 60min rwo last night (not a pb but the best I've done since June 2005 @ 14370m). Started thinking about this logo/motto and it basically became complicated to find something that should be: snappy/pertinent as well as simple and or amusing.
Depending on what you wanted, I thought of:

Free Spirits:
Ever Rowing - ever growing - never slowing

Free Spirits: to boldly row like no-one has rowed before
(honest, I'm not a trekkie)

or
"Free Spirits Virtual Rowing" (at the top of the T-shirt)
add the logo in the middle, then,
"Set Dampers on fun"
(whether anyone would get the connection/rhyme to "set phasors on stun" I doubt) - Honest I'm really not a trekkie at all

Ah well- maybe that's not the best I'll come up with but thought I chuck them in the ring. So much for waking up at daft times!
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Post by Gooner Neil »

Thread re this somehow got taken up on the BIRC thread here is an extract from that

Re the colour and styles of team wear I think the answer is purely and simply staring us in the face. Look top left, Thomas' Legend and font style is simple and without arrogance. The 'rowing' legend also indicates a feeling of fun (maybe stop taking those tablets). I submit this becomes our legend. Bangers is right. if we turn up en mass at an event with the dogs boll@@ks or similar, one we could look incredibly stupid and secondly not very inviting to others.

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Post by Thomas W-P »

Not a bad idea actually. The dark green, orange and white...

I also made a decision on the motto for the web site. You should see that I simply chose all of them - randomly selected each page load. If you want to add any, post here...
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Here's an idea I had in a moment (?) of boredom at work.

We have 101 members currently.
15 females, and (I'm guessing) 20 LWT and the rest HWT men.
Assuming 60 kg for Females, 75 kg for LWT and 90 kg HWT men,
I worked out our entire team weighs about 8,340 kg.

So how about:

"8 Tonnes of rowing power" as a slogan, or something similar?
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PSims wrote:"8 Tonnes of rowing power" as a slogan, or something similar?
In 2 months time it will have to change to "16 Tonnes of rowing power". Also after xmas it will probably go up a tonne or two
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Post by Thomas W-P »

I have been working on this one :wink:

I have found an olive T-shirt on a web site (the colour of the heading bar) and have mocked up a few variants of the "FreeSpiritsrowing".

I think "less is more" is a great idea. Watch this space. If I wasn't completely shattered after child-waking in the night and full day I would do something tonight.
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Re: Weight

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PSims wrote:Here's an idea I had in a moment (?) of boredom at work.

Assuming 60 kg for Females, 75 kg for LWT and 90 kg HWT men,
:shock: We're all lightweights!
Hmmmmm - generous assumption..... :wink:
48yo, weight... let's just say heavyweight & leave it at that.
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Post by ReducingFB »

johnglynn wrote:
PSims wrote:"8 Tonnes of rowing power" as a slogan, or something similar?
In 2 months time it will have to change to "16 Tonnes of rowing power". Also after xmas it will probably go up a tonne or two
"Sixteen tons, and what do you get, another day older and deeper in debt" - I guess their aren't many of us who are old enough to remember Tenessee Ernie Ford and the Kentucky miner's song of the late fifties.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohathens/sixteen.htm

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Janet - discussing weights with ladies is likely to get me into a whole lot of bother. :oops: Actually for the Females, I did take an average of the actual weights - we have quite a range! I lost the will when it came to adding up the men as there are so many of us!

Scary when you think of us all together in a long line rowing at the same time. 8-9 Tonnes of rowers.

3 new joiners over the last 24 hours - so you are right John - it's nearer 9 Tonens now.

How about working out the total COMBINED weight loss of the team since May? Now all we need is a science teacher and an IT guru.....

You may have noticed my ticker in my signature.
The web site also has them for weight loss - take a peek.
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10 tonnes of pull...?
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