Blogs

3D Robotics

Let's design a new DIY Drones header! (prize to the winner)

Posted by Chris Anderson on February 23, 2013 at 7:30am

3689505297?profile=originalYou may have noticed some slight design changes here over the past day, which are simply me band-aiding a situation where the external site that hosted some of our design files shut down, leaving a bunch of broken images and mangled CSS here. For now I've reverted to some native Ning design features and brought back an old header (above), but this strikes me as a good time to start the process of a proper redesign. 

In Spring, Ning (which we're hosted on) will roll out a bunch of new design and functionality features, which should improve things here considerably. It still won't perfect, especially for very long comment threads, so we're going to launch some new forums for product/software discussion/support on the new manual/wiki site that we'll be previewing in a few weeks. These new forums will be based on a very good WordPress forum plug-in, so they should be a big step up from what we've currently got. And by pushing product/technical support to a separate site, DIY Drones can focus more on its original function on news and discussion about civilian UAVs and technology in general. 

In the meantime, it's time to update our header. So I'd like to launch a competition for the best design. The winner will get an APM 2.5+.

Guidelines:

  • Create a rectangular graphic (width 955 1,000 pixels, height anything from 100 to 200 pixels) that will replace the above. 
  • The name should stay the same ("DIY Drones") but the tagline should change to "Amateur UAVs, Contests, Products and More" Revision: I've had advice to lead with "community", so let's try this: "The Leading Community for Amateur and Civilian UAVs" Another revision! After yet more advice, let's go with "The leading community for personal UAVs". You can use any style you think looks best (caps or lowercase).
  • There should be some image of a UAV. Ideally, it should look cool and "drone-like" but not look military or threatening. Fixed wing or multicopter, it's up to you.
  • Post your submissions in the comments below
  • The competition will run one month, until March 23rd

Last time we did this, back in 2010, we got some great submissions. I'm looking forward to seeing what the design talent in this community can come up with this time!

E-mail me when people leave their comments –
Follow

You need to be a member of diydrones to add comments!

Join diydrones

Comments

  • Matt Gunn February 25, 2013 at 8:02pm

    kinda like the General Atomics MQ-9 in our current banner?

    ;)

    Its been stated a few times now. the designs can be tweaked as you know. Its a general design contest and the owner will most likely work with the winner to fine tune it.

  • Alex Lee February 25, 2013 at 6:53pm

    Instead of copying a commercial product, perhaps pull from the pics inside the mission planner. I've always thought they were cool.

  • John Hestness February 25, 2013 at 6:51pm
    Maybe it would be better to have people not understand what you mean by UAV than think you mean this:
    a : to make a sustained deep murmuring, humming, or buzzing sound <droning bees>
    b : to talk in a persistently dull or monotonous tone <droningon and on about his health>
    : to pass, proceed, or act in a dull, drowsy, or indifferent manner <the afternoon droned on>
    transitive verb
    1
    : to utter or pronounce with a drone
    2
    : to pass or spend in dull or monotonous activity or in idleness
    I am kidding, LOL.
  • Gary McCray February 25, 2013 at 5:46pm

    I don't know I think QuadroCat has a lot going for it.

  • Marooned February 25, 2013 at 5:37pm

    I wanted to try myself in this thread and then I saw design by Petrus. Good game, thanks all ;-)

  • Moderator
    Sgt Ric February 25, 2013 at 3:19pm

    Well @Reto, if we're trying to stay politically correct/ morally sensitive, I'm sure the cat is out!

  • LanMark February 25, 2013 at 2:11pm

    Hachemi.. cool..  I would get rid of some of the bluryness in the DIY Drones part.. I like clean text, where with the shadows and such it seems blury to me.. seems like a smudge or something was used around the letters making them blend in..  not bad overall.. the word 'the' seems a bit close to the edge.

    But that is just my opinion which doesn't hold much weight.. pretty cool overall.

  • LanMark February 25, 2013 at 8:11am

    Petrus my suggestion for your design is to move the title away from the border.  It seems uncomfortably close to the border.. where really it probably should have some padding around it.  I like the design and its fresh feel.

  • Petrus Botha February 25, 2013 at 7:05am

    Thank you all for the very nice comments, should you wish to change, tweak and maybe try other colour schemes, let me know

  • Olivier Dufayt February 25, 2013 at 6:51am

    +1 for Petrus...

This reply was deleted.