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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 11 May 1994.
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Could anyone make me a banner.

Could anyone make me a banner.

alt.ascii-art · 6 messages · 11 May 1994 - 13 May 1994
Dear all, I edit a free, internet distributed publication called PowerPC 
News. It goes out every fortnight and we have around 10,000 readers now. 
It is sent by mail and is growing by around 150 subscribers a day.

The problem? It would be really nice to have some form of banner for the 
top of the publication. Something that says, in no uncertain terms 
'PowerPC New'. The other problem, I'm about as artistic as ... well, a 
very unartistic thing. I've had a tinker but all my efforts are dreadful

I was wondering whether any of the artistes here might have a bash for 
me. I have nothing to offer but my gratitude, but your ascii artwork will 
end up in  quite a few people's E-mail baskets.

The spec? less that 76 characters wide, and not too many lines deep. I'd 
like to keep it less than 6 lines if possible (perhaps just the word 
PowerPC then?)

Oh, and anyone who wants to see the newletter itself, send a piece of 
mail (contents ignored) to ad...@power.globalnews.com

Don't worry, its easy to get *off* the list again by mailing 
rem...@power.globalnews.com.

Thanks in advance.


Chris Rose.
Editor, PowerPC News.

Bob Allison <bob...@gagme.wwa.com> ASCII art 12 May 1994 14:58 · permalink
In article <Cpn...@cix.compulink.co.uk>,
Chris Rose <chr...@cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote:
>Dear all, I edit a free, internet distributed publication called PowerPC 
>News. It goes out every fortnight and we have around 10,000 readers now. 
>It is sent by mail and is growing by around 150 subscribers a day.
>
>The problem? It would be really nice to have some form of banner for the 
>top of the publication. Something that says, in no uncertain terms 
>'PowerPC New'. The other problem, I'm about as artistic as ... well, a 
>very unartistic thing. I've had a tinker but all my efforts are dreadful

   Here a very quick toss off of one of my standard font effects.

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%% |||||% ||% %% |%% % |||% |% |%% |||||%% ||%% |%% |%%% % |||%% |%% |||||% 
%% ||||||%%% |% |||% %%%% % ||% %% ||||||%%%%% ||%% ||%% %%%% % |||% |%%%% |
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   Hope this helps.  There's no pic, just the words in a decent font 
effect.  If you use it, email me, so I'll know.

--
        .ooo.  .oo.   .ooo oooo.  ooooo  .oo. oooo.   .oooo.  oo  oo  oo
       (88***:88*** d88*88 88**8b 88***.88*** 88**8b :88**88: 88  88  88
       '88b  88F   d88  88 88 .8P 88oo 88F    88 .8P:88    88:88  88  88
         Y88 ?88  :8888888 8888"  88** ?88    8888" :88    88:88  88  88
          888 *8b..88L  88 88'8b  88... *8b.. 88'8b  '8b..d8' 88bd88bd8F
      :88888F  "*8F 88  88 88 '8F 8888F  "*8F 88 '8F  ^*88*^  88F"88F"

Mostly Harmless <cha...@yar.cs.wisc.edu> ASCII art 12 May 1994 22:21 · permalink
A whole slew of possible logos for PowerPC News.
 
First off a pair of logos based off of a Times/Roman font.
 
___________________________________________________________________________
______                           ______    ____                            
 88  Yb                           88  Yb  dP  Yb   PowerPC News            
 88__dP ___ __  __  _ ___ ____ _  88__dP 88        An mailing list magazine
 88    dP Yb Yb,db d dP__B 88dP"b 88     88        Covering something or   
 88    Yb dP  YP YP  Yb~~  88     88      Yb  dP   another.                
~~~~    ~~~   ~~ ~~   ~~~ ~~~~   ~~~~      ~~~~                            
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Editor: Chris Rose              send email to: pow...@lalala.somewhere.com
___________________________________________________________________________
 
__________________________________________________________________________
                                                                          
  _________                                      _________      ______    
   ~88~   Yb.                                     ~88~   Yb.   dP~  ~Yb   
    88     88                                      88     88  dP          
    88____dP'____ ___ _____ __  ____  ____ __      88____dP' 88           
    88      dP  Yb Yb  YbP' d  dP  Yb  88adP~Yb    88        88           
    88     88    88 Yb dYb d' 88aaadP  88'         88         Yb          
   _88_     Yb  dP   Y8' Y8'   Yb   ,  88         _88_         Yb_  _dP   
  ~~~~~~     ~~~~    ~~  ~~     ~~~~  ~~~~       ~~~~~~         ~~~~~~    
__________________________________________________________________________
Editor: Chris Rose             send email to: pow...@lalala.somewhere.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 
A pair of less interesting logos, but they look good in just about any
monospace font.
    __________________________________________________________________    
      _____                     _____ _____    __    _                    
     |  _  |                   |  _  |  ___|  |  \  | |                   
     | |_| |_____ _ _ _ ___ ___| |_| | |      |   \ | |___ _ _ _ ___      
     |  ___|  _  | | | | _ |  _|  ___| |      | |\ \| | _ | | | | __|     
     | |   | |_| | | | | __| | | |   | |___   | | \   | __| | | |__ |     
     |_|   |_____|_____|___|_| |_|   |_____|  |_|  \__|___|_____|___|     
    ___________________________________________________________________   
    Editor: Chris Rose           email to: pow...@lalala.somewhere.com   
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   
 
  ,---------------------------------------------------------------------.
  | ,---.                      ,---. ,---.        ,   .                 |.
  | |   |                      |   | |            |\  |                 ||
  | |---',---, , , , ,--. ,--, |---' |            | \ | ,--. , , , ,--  ||
  | |    |   | | | | |--' |    |     |            |  \| |--' | | | `--. ||
  | `    `---' `-"-' `--' `    `     `---'        `   ' `--' `-"-' `--' ||
  `---------------------------------------------------------------------'|
   `~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
This seemed like a good idea at the time.  Its bigger than you wanted, but
it is very distinctive.  (It also looks good on almost every system.)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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-.-----.- - - - - - - - - - - - - .-----.,----. -,-.- ,-. - - - - - - - - - 
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-| `-' |,-----.,-,-,-.,----,,-.--.| `-' || |- - -| | \| |,----.,-,-,-.,---. 
 | ,---'| ,-, || | | || -- || ,--'| ,---'| | - - | |\ | || -- || | | || --|-
-| |- - | `-' || ' ' || ---|| | - | | - -| `--. -| |-\  || ---|| ' ' ||-- | 
 `-' - -`-----'`-----'`----'`-'- -`-'- - `----'- `-' -`-'`----'`-----'`---'-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Editor: Chris Rose - - - - - - - - - -email to: pow...@lalala.somewhere.com
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
Well, it's hard to read, but very unique.
  Y888b.   d8b.   Y8 Y8 Y8    888888    d888b    d888b   ,,d888b
   `Yb Yb  Yb Yb   8b 8b 8b   88       dP 88    dP 8P   dP'     
     Y888P  Yb Yb  Y8 Y8 Y8   88888    8888P   d888P  ,dP       
      `Yb    Yb Yb  8b 8b 8b  88      dYb.    dP     dP'        
        Yb    `Y8P  Y888888P  888888  8P`Yb  dP      Y888P      
 
 
Your basic name.
     d88b                            d88b  ,d88b    d8  dP
    dP dP                           dP dP dP       d88 dP
   d88P' d88b 8  d8  dP d88b  d88b d88P' dP       dP88dP d88b 8  d8  dP d88P
  dP    dP dP 8 dP8 dP d8adP dP   dP    dP       dP 88P d8adP 8 dP8 dP  Yaa
 dP     Y88P  8dP 8dP  Yaa  dP   dP     Y888P   dP  8P  Yaa   8dP 8dP aadP
 
A pair of your basic names, the second one looks better in my opinion.
(The only difference is the shading)
   ____________________________________________________________________   
                                                                          
          d88b   ,d8b,  88   d8   dP  d88888P  d88b    d88b   ,d88b       
         dP dP  dP  88  88  d88  dP  dP       dP dP   dP dP  dP           
        d88P'  dP   dP  88 dP88 dP  d888P    d88P'   d88P'  dP            
       dP      88  dP   88dP 88dP  dP       dP Yb   dP      88            
      dP       `88P~    88P  88P  d88888P  dP  88  dP       `888P         
                                                                          
   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   
 
________________________________________________________________________
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
 . . . . d88b. .,d8b,. 88. .d8 . dP. d88888P .d88b . .d88b . ,d88b . . .
. . . . dP dP .dP  88 .88 .d88. dP. dP. . . .dP dP. .dP dP. dP. . . . . 
 . . . d88P' .dP   dP. 88.dP88 dP. d888P . .d88P'. .d88P'. dP. . . . . .
. . . dP. . . 88  dP. .88dP 88dP. dP. . . .dP Yb. .dP . . .88 . . . . . 
 . . dP. . . .`88P~. . 88P .88P. d88888P .dP .88 .dP . . . `888P . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 
An inverse version of the above.  I like this one alot.
___________________________________________________________________________
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
::::::'    `:::'   `:::  :::'  :::' .::'      ::'    `::::'    `::::'   `::
:::::' .:' .::' .:  :::  ::'   ::' .::' .::::::' .:' .:::' .:' .::' .::::::
::::'    ..::' .:'  :::  :' .  :' .::'    ::::'    ..:::'    ..::' .:::::::
:::' .:::::::  :' .::::  ' .:  ' .::' .::::::' .:  ::::' .:::::::  ::::::::
::' .::::::::.   .:::::   .::   .::'      ::' .::  :::' .::::::::.   .:::::
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Editor: Chris Rose                   email to: pow...@lalala.somewhere.com
 
Well, somewhere in here has got to be something you like.  (Or maybe not.)
Even if you hate all of these if one of these gives you a good idea I'll
consider it a success.
 
-- Alan De Smet
   cha...@yar.cs.wisc.edu
   Mostly (But not entirely) Harmless
   The opinions expressed above are yours.
 
 
 
 
ZZ

Many thanks, and to scarecrow too. As you say I'm spoiled for choice. 
Perhaps I could change the banner each issue :-)

I appreciate the time you both put in I'll let you know which one I 
choose (I rather like the Inverse one actually) I presume you wouldn't 
mind a little credit somewhere?

All the best 

Chris R.

Chris Rose <chr...@cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote:
>Many thanks, and to scarecrow too. As you say I'm spoiled for choice. 

Your welcome.

>Perhaps I could change the banner each issue :-)

(I pity your readers :-)

>I appreciate the time you both put in I'll let you know which one I 
>choose (I rather like the Inverse one actually) I presume you wouldn't 
>mind a little credit somewhere?

Yes.  Just a little credit.  Say, my name, repeated over and over covering
2-3 screens in the middle of the issue?  Okay, how about in the first issue
it runs a little note: "Created by <Bob Allison/Alan De Smet>"  That would
for me (and Scarecrow I bet.)

-- Alan De Smet
   cha...@yar.cs.wisc.edu
   Mostly (But not entirely) Harmless

Bob Allison <bob...@gagme.wwa.com> ASCII art 13 May 1994 05:40 · permalink
In article <Cpp...@cix.compulink.co.uk>,
Chris Rose <chr...@cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote:
>Many thanks, and to scarecrow too. As you say I'm spoiled for choice. 
>Perhaps I could change the banner each issue :-)
>
>I appreciate the time you both put in I'll let you know which one I 
>choose (I rather like the Inverse one actually) I presume you wouldn't 
>mind a little credit somewhere?

   Here's a couple more:

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%% ||%% |%%% |% |||% %%%% %%%% |   ||      ||   |%%% |%% %%%% % |||% |%%%% |
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Editor: Chris Rose           Editorial Mailbox: pow...@lalala.somewhere.com
 
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Editor: Chris Rose           Editorial Mailbox: pow...@lalala.somewhere.com

   Hope these help.

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