Help With A Name
I am putting the horse before the cart but I do that a lot. I am trying to drum up interest in a Hot Wheels racing club at the school that I teach at. The computer teacher is teaching some graphic design and photoshop right now and his kids are turning out some pretty cool things. I am going to get the class to come up with a design for our club that hasn't even been organized yet. I want to be able to use the logo on signs around the school and possibly stickers and shirts later on. I have been throwing around ideas in my head. Nothing great. Things like:
Downhill Drags
Diecast Drags
I figured I could add the name of the school to the front or end of whatever clever name I could come up maybe. Any of you guys heard or come up with clever names for what we do?
Discussion
How about just South Greene Race Club?
I'm not partial to putting "diecast" in names because I think things just sound cooler as "race club" or something without the qualifier. You guys race and that word alone will get people interested and more questions asked, which then allows you to talk about it more. I got several of the guys I used to work with interested because I wore my Redline Derby Racing shirt and they asked what that was. They assumed it was car racing but not Hot Wheels...so that was my chance to sell them on the ideas and after that, they were hooked.
Names don't have to be descriptive they just have to be memorable and easy to say. Catchy. I always tell people when branding that they should want to engage with people about their organization/product. You can't be too cryptic but don't give too much away up front because a person's ability to tell them a story always beats out words on a page with pictures.
Not sure what your end goal is but using the school name might limit how far the thing can go. You're unorganized now but interest could grow and at some point you might want to include more of the community than just the school (or students). Your club could always benefit the school (fund raising, etc) but the events and meetings and whatever else comes out of it could include anyone, even non-students. It's exciting to think about but start with something simple and build from there.
You should incorporate skunkworks (and a skunk image) into the design.
I am also partial to gravity.
What is the school name and mascot?