Which version of E30 Picnic Poster?

[Court M3]

Wish the purple on #2 was true to the colors of our era. Now it's a dark blue. Bring back the purple! In for #1 only because #2 pisses me off and reminds me of how deluted the Motorsport brand has become.

Took the words right out of my mouth.

[e30austin]

Wish the purple on #2 was true to the colors of our era. Now it's a dark blue. Bring back the purple! In for #1 only because #2 pisses me off and reminds me of how deluted the Motorsport brand has become.

[rob-redm]

top one for sure

[///mferbrache]

I pulled the stripe colors off of the image of the M3 used in the poster to color the title. The dark stripe on that particular model is more blue than it is purple. But if you want the colors to be closer to the official Motorsport colors, I can oblige.

The "official" purple is quite dark and doesn't read all that well. Also keep in mind that what you're looking at on this forum is a low-res RGB jpeg of the poster on a computer monitor. The printed version will be in CMYK and printed on paper so it'll look different anyway.

Here's an updated version of the Motorsport colors one so you can get a better idea of what the blue/purple/red might look like. And here's the grey one again so you don't need to flip back and forth from the first page.

[BastosBill]

Top one in the first panel, bottom one in the second panel IE: Death Star please!

Shinny Shiny Shine.........one of those must be right, but who knows ;)

[SeatownE30]

Death Star version!

[Lance Racing]

Guys,

Thanks for the feedback so far, keep it coming.

On the Motorsport colors. I used to get worked up about it, now I don't so much. Over the years I've collected a lot of BMW stuff. Official stuff put out by BMW. Clothing sold to the general public, rare clothing made for factory race crew members, printed posters, press release stuff, you name it. BMW can't even get the colors consistent themselves and I have the examples in my collection to prove it. In particular the red/orange can go anywhere from a pretty solid red to a very bright traffic cone orange depending on the item.

I once contacted the art director for the Roundel to ask him what the official Pantone colors were. We were updating the logo for the local BMW Club. I figured the art director for the official BMW Club publication would know. He said there wasn't any he could quote. He did say that some of the advertisers in the Roundel who use "motorsport" colors as part of their logo, or in their print ad, actually slightly color shift the colors so BMW NA does not sue them for using the "official" colors without permission.

And as Matt mentioned, it depends on the final medium. This on screen presentation will be different from the actual printed colors on paper.

If you have ever seen the Marlboro McLaren F1 cars from the Senna era or Penske INDY cars from that same tobacco era in the flesh, you'll notice quickly the "red" on the car is a retina burning traffic cone orange. But when filmed for a TV race telecast that translates on TV to the Marlboro red.

[Martin C.]

...top one, from the original string. Good work Lance!

[Matt-B]

Wish the purple on #2 was true to the colors of our era. Now it's a dark blue. Bring back the purple! In for #1 only because #2 pisses me off and reminds me of how deluted the Motorsport brand has become.

Remove fog, there is no "fog" in space

[e30_world]

Top one looks fantastic.. Can we start reposting this yet?

[CorvallisBMW]

Tied 21-21, we are of no help

[crafto95]

If Matt sees this, maybe try mixing the two! Gray top and bottom text, and then each character of "E30" is one of the M colors.

[Matt-B]

I fell like people will do their best to keep this even...


such is the life of a troll

[Mark 42]

Shinny Death Star

I like the Death Star font color.

I'd also like a printable flyer to put under the windshield wiper of E30s I see in parking lots (Like the 405 FWY)

[Lance Racing]

Might have to flip a coin! MS colors has now taken a slight edge.

I have not voted yet.