$ 15 quickie....Logo

[alex894]

I need a logo for my fresh new website <//urban dog house[dot]com//>

The site will focus on products for "urban dogs" e.i. .... clothes/accessories and all that crazy jazz people do to dogs in the city.....it will be an online marketplace + forum for now;

I have no specific criteria of what exactly I'm looking for, I'll go with what I see and guide you guys from there. It can have a dog in the design, nothing lame though, something that can but a smile on the face......sort of a cute lil bugger

or no pet at all and graphic play, your call really.

Shall we?

[TightWad]

http://i40.tinypic.com/2mrekvp.png

[f0zzilz]

My try :D


http://i42.tinypic.com/2nga5c2.jpg

[larrytheloafer]

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s77/douggriffin/urbandoghouse.jpg

[larrytheloafer]

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s77/douggriffin/DogHouse2-1.jpg

[alex894]

Alright, good day to all of you, morning for me and I can say it's a good morning now that I'm looking at my contest, at least we're starting on the right foot.

http://i40.tinypic.com/2mrekvp.png

I like your design very much. It has a modern feel to it and that's one of the things I'm looking for too.

Colours are bang on the fonts, I really like the combination and look(the fading on the top)

I don't want to limit my site to the urban audience only and I'm referring to those apartment building in the background, I sort of want the rural dog owner to feel comfortable when seeing the site, so maybe that's the thing to be worked on.

My try :D


http://i42.tinypic.com/2nga5c2.jpg

Your entry is good also. Font colour and type is good, the logo itself has a "aaawwww" kind of feel to it; which may seem cute to a portion of my audience; the logo is very very calm, I'm looking for it to have more play in it, I don't want it to grow boring on people. The pup itself is out of proportion too, a bit too big.

A rework is kindly appreciated.

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s77/douggriffin/urbandoghouse.jpg

Very nice. Very well made concept just the colours and font are a bit off.

I can do without the paw prints just the dog house and a funny little bugger by the dog house staring at you with a "what's the matter with you" kind of expression.

I also have to think of a name to replace the "dog" writing on the dog house. Dog is a bit blunt, it needs to be something to make people giggle.

[Sagarika123]

Feedback appreciated.

http://i43.tinypic.com/ezlbo6.jpg

[alex894]

your design is nice but now that I look at it, it needs to be a bit more interesting, see what has been done in post 2 /4 and read my suggestions in post # 6.

Thanks for your input in look forward to see your newer concept.

[Sagarika123]

Thanks for feedback.I will work on my entry again and submit a new one soon.

Just a suggestion if u don't mind:You can give feedback to us by mentioning "@NameOfDesigner:" at the start of ur feedabck so that designer scan easily know which feedback is for whom.

[alex894]

ok sure, my bad if writing under the actual concept confused any of you.

Thank for your feedback on my feedback giving :D

[Speno]

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/6914/udhqd2.jpg

[Sagarika123]

FEEDBACK appreciated.

http://i39.tinypic.com/2mrwh1e.jpg

[alex894]

@ speno; to tell you the truth , I don't like the profile shot of the dog, the dog should look directly at you, so to speak.

@watari

Concept 1: I like the fonts and the way they sit, but pluto is too much for the picture; can you work with an actual dog house picture and make it more "urban". also, please refer to what I said to larry in post 6

concept 2: no really, sorry, nothing really goes.

concept 3: again please refer to post 6, my comment on tightwad, I don't want to narrow my audience to city dog owners despite the name of the site. I don't want to rural visitors to feel kind of bad to visit my site

@ sagarika123.....nice, can you make it all in 1 line, and try not to play with dog profiles, make the dog stare at ya....

thanks

@ ALL

Thanks for your concepts, the logo is really starting to take shape.

OK GUY AND GALS, I think I got the colour narrowed out, so far, emarald green/navy and glassy sky blues(see watari's concept 1) look good.

You can work with those but you can still try to try your hand at what you think that looks nice. Please remember that I don't want to make any urban or rural visitors feel akward while visiting(due to graphics focusing on one groups vs the other) and let's not too much girlish(excess reds, pinks, greens) and manish( too much navy blue) colours in excess, a middle point to satisfy most of the audiences is good)

:)

[Sagarika123]

FEEDBACK appreciated.
http://i39.tinypic.com/a2zoxu.jpg

[alex894]

@sagarika123.....hahahahahahahahaa

the what's the matter bubble thingie made me giggle. I meant the "what's the matter" as in the dog's facial expresion


I'm seeing something in your latest submission and I like it it just needs something else that I can't quite figure out.

Urban should be straight font and I don't know what to do with that dog.....how can it be done so it's minimal yet an important element in the design. ONE thing is for sure, the dog house MUST exist :D

[Sagarika123]

http://i39.tinypic.com/124vqm8.jpg

[Speno]

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/162/udhsm2.jpg

[alex894]

@sakarika123...no, sorry, the previous one was better and post 12 was the one to work with.

@Jack, something just doesn't look right about it

I think it's still best if everything is in one line and I still think larrytheloafer has got it, see post 4 :(

[elias_sorensen]

Here's my entry:
http://eliassorensen.com/digitalpoint/DP1194065_urbandoghouse.jpg

Please give me feedback on it ;)

[alex894]

@elias, can you please try a different font and color combination? orange, blue, emerald green?

[elias_sorensen]

Is this better?

http://eliassorensen.com/digitalpoint/DP1194065_urbandoghouse2.jpg

[alex894]

Try a different font please and some glassy effect to the text,

[elias_sorensen]

What do you think about this:
http://eliassorensen.com/digitalpoint/DP1194065_urbandoghouse3.jpg

[alex894]

Arial looks too boring, I need something a bit more playful. I hope I can manage that in photoshop myself.

now, on the left side, can you put a dog house and a happily barking pup for play on a convex piece of lawn(like post 2)

Thanks.

[elias_sorensen]

It is actually Myriad Pro ;) Apple uses it for everything :)

Well, I'll try to come up with something else :) Give me some hours ;) Have to eat now.

[alex894]

ok, I'm going to be gone for 1 1/2 hours too, do your best

:) thank you

[Sagarika123]

Here's another entry from me.Feedback appreciates.
I hope its my last entry.

http://i40.tinypic.com/j6svuw.jpg

[MantisArt]

Hi, here's my entry, feedback appreciated, thanks

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/1839/urbandoghouse7finalcopycp9.jpg

[Sagarika123]

Heres another entry(revised my previous entry)

http://i40.tinypic.com/r03tx3.jpg

[Speno]

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/4545/udhpt1.jpg

[alex894]

alright, so I see Elias did not resubmit another try but we got new contestants....

@Sagarika123: the last one looks better than second last, but that dog is way too happy. Try to shrink the design a little bit. See what grass Speno used, try to do the same top of the hill, toss a dog house on it(like the one matisart used), not an actual house and take the house off the "H" in house.

@MantisArt: I think yours has the greatest potential of them all, I can honestly see this winning. You just need to toss some sort of lawn to match the colour of urban and we're good. Now that I see yours, I'm thinking: how would the word "house" look if it was misplaced, sort of like a stamp. Also take the dogs away and somehow put one in that faces the viewer instead. Use one of the 2 examples I posted below.

@Speno: Jack, move the lawn and the dog to the left of the writing, lettering is good, reflections are perfect.

I see a lot of confusion as to the dog I'm looking after so I took the liberty to google some up.

You can do a sketch of this pup, looks pretty good. http://www.charlesandhudson.com/archives/puppy-dog-house.jpg

A bit more daring and I truly recommend that you use something similar as this image seems to be copyrighted, or do a sketch of it http://www.dogclipart.net/images/illustrations/xsmall2/36_mean_bulldog_named_killer_chained_by_his_dog_house.jpg

BTW, the doghouse MartisArt used is Perfect.

Thank you guys/gals this is getting close to perfection.

[TightWad]

Another version - More web2.0
http://i40.tinypic.com/10wpe2w.png

[alex894]

Another version - More web2.0
http://i40.tinypic.com/10wpe2w.png


it's alright but still....MartisArt. post #28 is on the right track. See if you can do better, see my comment before your post.

[JLEville]

Here's mine...feedback would be great. Thanks!

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/742/urbandoghousetc3.jpg

[alex894]

Here's mine...feedback would be great. Thanks!

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/742/urbandoghousetc3.jpg


no sorry :(

post 28 seems to be what I'm after,

please see the comments in post 31

Thank you for your participation. :)

[elias_sorensen]

Sorry for being late!

http://eliassorensen.com/digitalpoint/DP1194065_urbandoghouse4.jpg

What about this?

[alex894]

Elias, you just put me in a HUGE dilemma. font is perfect, colours work very well for your design, only thing is the dog house doesn't look like an actual doghouse.

I think I'll have a very hard time deciding who's taking the money....we'll see who's faster..

[elias_sorensen]

Just came up with this:
http://eliassorensen.com/digitalpoint/DP1194065_urbandoghouse5.jpg

Is this better?

[alex894]

Elias: sorry, I'm really struggling to make a decision, let alone make any changes.

Can you reduce the upper fade on the letters so that the colour is more vivid, and can you make the dog sniff the bottom side of the 'u'

I'd also like to see a green brown green colour layout if you can.

If nobody replies with a better version before your next revision, you win.

[elias_sorensen]

My final entries (if you don't have other corrections :)):

http://eliassorensen.com/digitalpoint/DP1194065_urbandoghouse_final1.jpg

And...:-
http://eliassorensen.com/digitalpoint/DP1194065_urbandoghouse_final2.jpg

[alex894]

Elias, you win, let's tidy up things over MSN.

CONTEST OFFICIALLY CLOSED.

I thank you all for the hard work put into this and the fast work.

Stay put because there will be more quickies in the following days. :)

Hope to work with you guys again, you rock!

[elias_sorensen]

Thanks for the trade :)