Deciding on a new Judo Club Logo

Some of you out there may know about graphics. I know a little bit, just enough to get by, really. Well, apparently in t-shirt printing and other wearable graphic arts, the source images need to be done in vector rather than pixilated graphics. This was where my difficulty began.

Originally, I designed what I thought was a way cool logo. I liked it. The printer didn’t.

So that was the original. I really think it’s cool…but when you make it really big, you can see the pixels.

So, since that wouldn’t work for the printers, for obvious reasons pointed out by the printers. So, I had to come up with something. The next iteration was this:

This version is a vector graphic design. What that means is that no matter how large I make the image, it will look the same. Now, savvy viewers will notice that the guys in the middle are pointing a different way. Judo savvy viewers will notice that not only are the guys in the middle pointing a different way, they’re doing a completely different throw!

To say the least, I wasn’t really satisfied with this particular version. It seems a little limp, doesn’t really have the same emphasis as the first one. So I kept at it. Today, I’m unveiling two new designs for which I’d like some feedback. Here they are:

What do you, my wonderful readers, think of these designs?