Perhaps not a map, but a Request/Opportunity Nonetheless!

[Redrobes]

Right direction ? The shape of the black can change pretty easily.
If not then I could give Seer my parchment model and he can take it to completion if you like.

[jfrazierjr]

I think what he is looking for is more along the lines of a normal parchment style map, but with the "surface" where the map color/symbols are located would be stained as to be unreadable. My first thought when playing with this was to create somewhat of a rough map and then use the burn tool to "erase" portions until I had the "points of light". That seems to be my understanding based on his comments to my last post. By black, I take it to mean obscured from viewing what's underneath as opposed to litterally black.

Joe

[SeerBlue]

What I did was take a map I had together and then added layers of noise and smudges in PS, using overlay for the most part with textile brushes, on the map itself. And then after rendering it on the scroll in indigo I did some touch up, mostly because I did not see the opacity setting in Sketch up is about 75% by default, until after I rendered it, and the scroll itself needed smudging as the sketchup texture was too clean.
I guess the idea I got was that the map was painted on the scroll, and for some reason I pictured a sneak thief with grubby hands coveting it, so the map itself became marred/scuffed,dirtied more than the surrounding scroll.

So, feasibly, some one with an awesome 3d scroll image, and some one with a spot on map, could use PS/gimp to merge the 2....then it is down to the text font.
I should have continued drawing crayon maps on brown paper bags when I was a kid,,,,I would be a lot further along now.

SeerBlue

[Sigurd]

If it were me coming up with a logo I'd make sure its printable and not out of gamut. Is this for a print work or a PDF? Are you trying to keep print runs a simple option?

My design would have more of an in your face sort of shbang to help readers see it and remember it. I like the idea of a scroll area but I'd change each publication so something significant was below the logo.

This is what I'd do. The stars are rough and there's lots of tweeking possible but I think this would print well and you could scale it. btw 300 dpi 6" by 5" is pretty large.




Depending on your presentation there are tweaks to do with cleaner outlines, illustrator and modified fonts. The design should compliment your page background images\paper also consider what you'd do if you used the logo in advertising.

The 'parchment area' can be expanded however much you like to hold a central graphic for each publication or a product number.




Thats how I would do it. PM me if you're interested.

Sigurd.

[SeerBlue]

I definitely like Sigurd's idea about being able to change the graphic on the scroll for each edition. Match it to a map covered in the edition, or make a new map and parse out bits of it on the logo with each edition. SeerBlue

[The Cartographist]

Redrobes - I'll repeat my comment from above - You are a Machine! YES. This is almost EXACTLY what I am looking for. I'll post a few more comments later on this evening. Thanks a lot.

[mathuwm]

I like the changing background idea but i think you need something a bit more logo like in frontPOints-of-light.png

something i just threw together

[Redrobes]

...This is almost EXACTLY what I am looking for.

Ahh good, I was running around in circles a bit there. What I was thinking was that I use the points of light in the words "points of light" probably easier if I just show you. Now I know where were heading, ill render these again with some better quality and put something proper together. Its always easy to tweak it about a little.

Edit -- here you go with the alpha mask also.