Of EPS-ports and Graphics

wo1fwood

3345 Posts

August 30 2012 19:03 GMT

Over the last few weeks/months I've been getting more involved with content creation on TeamLiquid.net. As an amateur graphic artist I've been playing around in this sphere with my professional image for a long time, mostly for my personal website and marketing as a professional composer, but since joining TL I've started to make headings, graphics, and other things around the place, however I always found that working in professional organizations into graphics was a less than optimal situation (maybe less so for staff, idk), especially those from Korea. Perhaps it's the language barrier that's barred me from finding a simple solution but I've been working with logos and graphic designs from a lot of the major players, mostly in Korea but a few elsewhere and I consistently found that most of them did not provide easy access to promotional materials so that the community could create robust and professional looking art (in most cases I've taken images straight from their main sites or liquipedia, neither of which are optimal).

So with my frustrations I finally decided a few days ago that I wanted to solve my problem of not having clean, non-pixelated, and large graphics from which to draw upon when incorporating LR threads or advertisements on leagues or what have you, and thusly I took many of the staple images from major organizations such as OGN, or SK Planet, or GOMTV and reverse engineered their logos so that I could have and use high resolution images however I wished, and not have low res pixilated meh. :/

Now this is all well and good for me, but what of other people who want to have access to this stuff? Well that's the reason for this blog. I figured more than just me could use this stuff to their benefit and decided to release what I have to the community so that anyone looking for a strong baseline could access it. Below I have compiled a number of important images and logos, as well as having the original .EPS files that I created hosted on my website so that you can download them (click on images to get high resolution versions on imgur). I'll break each organization down sectionally and provide what I felt were the most important images for each. And of course if you want to manipulate them yourselves, you have the EPS files. And off we go...

Blizzard
EPS: Blizzard_Entertainment_Logo.eps, sc2_raceicons.eps
+ Show Spoiler [sc2_raceicons] +

As I was working with the sc2 race icons recently and didn't couldn't find any vector graphics of them, so I made them. I should note that I have seen on DeviantArt these done fairly well, but they always lacked a level of detail, especially in the protoss and zerg icons. Also, now you can choose between the the terran icons with ease, whereas only one was really used before.

Dreamhack
EPS: DreamHack_Digital.eps
I like Dreamhack because I googled "dreamhack logo eps" and immediately found their main logo in an eps file...man I wish more organizations did this. Here is their press page with more entries as well: http://www.dreamhack.se/dhw11/contact/press/ (currently unavailable, but I had the eps anyway)

ESL
PNG: Logo Packet: Complete
Like Dreamhack I like their MO. I couldn't find EPS files, but they had a page full of high resolution png files as part of their press materials. Again, other organizations please take note of this, it's very helpful: http://www.esl.eu/de/pro-series/season14/media/

GOM TV
Items: GOM TV logo, GSL lettering (long and short, long is Eurostile Demibold with an ~37° shear)
EPS: GOM TV_logo.eps, GSL_logo.eps, GSTL_logo.eps
+ Show Spoiler [gomtv_logo] +

+ Show Spoiler [gsl_logo] +

+ Show Spoiler [gstl_logo (longtime official is first,…] +

MLG
Items: MLG logo (not exact), MLG lettering and controller, MLG Icon (not square but can be converted easily)
EPS: MLG_all.eps, MLG_ico.eps
+ Show Spoiler [mlg_all] +

+ Show Spoiler [mlg_onecolor] +

I should briefly mention that MLG in their styleguide (found under branding) notes not to break apart any of their elements, so they very much frown upon the second image that I have here. I however disagree with this statement as they themselves break their own ruleset for 'one-color print applications', though all of the other guidelines of what not to do are mostly sound decisions.

ongamenet
Items: OGN logo, OGN separated 'lens flare', OSL logo (both old and new)
EPS: OGN_logo.eps, OSL_logo.eps
+ Show Spoiler [ongamenet_logo] +

+ Show Spoiler [osl_logo] +

Proleague
Items: Proleague logo (season is BlissHeavy with an ~11° shear)
EPS: Proleauge_logo.eps
+ Show Spoiler [proleague_logo] +

SK Planet
Items: SK Planet logo
EPS: SKPlanet_logo.eps
+ Show Spoiler [skplanet_logo] +

WCG
EPS: WCG_logo.eps
WCG Doesn't supply an eps so that all vector programs can access it, but I have included an eps so those without illustrator can access it.
http://www.wcg.com/6th/inside/symbol/symbol_logo.asp

Valve
Items: Valve logo, Dota2 logo
EPS: Valve_logo.eps, Dota2_logo.eps
+ Show Spoiler [dota2_logo] +

divito

Canada1212 Posts

August 30 2012 19:31 GMT

Most of the older organizations of eSports (especially around CS) had a press page, or a press kit that was available for download with EPS and other files and logos involved in their organizations. Back when I used to make graphics and write stories, these were invaluable pieces that assisted in my work.

Some are still pretty easy to find as you found out, but others might require contacting someone in the organization. Can't say I've ever had anyone deny access to the materials.

It's nice that you compiled some of them into this blog for others though, thanks!

Grend

1590 Posts

August 30 2012 19:37 GMT

This thread needs a better title so it will be possible to do searches for thngs related to .eps and so on to find the logos imo.

wo1fwood

3345 Posts

August 30 2012 20:16 GMT

On August 31 2012 04:31 divito wrote:
Most of the older organizations of eSports (especially around CS) had a press page, or a press kit that was available for download with EPS and other files and logos involved in their organizations. Back when I used to make graphics and write stories, these were invaluable pieces that assisted in my work.

Some are still pretty easy to find as you found out, but others might require contacting someone in the organization. Can't say I've ever had anyone deny access to the materials.

It's nice that you compiled some of them into this blog for others though, thanks!

I should mention so its very explicit to everyone but all of these images have been reverse engineered and are not originals.

And yea, for the most part contacting the organizations should be able to net you the eps files, or at least large png's.

Funnytoss

Taiwan1471 Posts

August 31 2012 03:47 GMT

Thanks a bunch, these are great. I wish the title was a bit more catchy though, I would have found it more easily.

wo1fwood

3345 Posts

October 04 2012 00:22 GMT

apparently my title change was not good enough to be effective in a search...my cleverness somewhat backfires lol. Anyway I updated the starleague logo so that the lettering bg is now present as well.

wo1fwood

3345 Posts

December 23 2012 14:30 GMT

woo, just added the sc2 race icons in eps and png format. I know they've been around for a while, but never in this detail (or as a vector).

jaedyn2718

United States1 Post

July 31 2014 14:42 GMT

the links to the EPS files are broken. I can't seem to find anyone else that has posted editable vector graphics (e.g., eps instead of PDF) of the race icons. Could you update the links?

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