$35 Logo/Favicon Contest - Gift Website - 72 Hour Deadline This is a custom logo & favicon design contest, please read the details below. LOGO DESIGN DETAILS: The logo/favicon is for the website: http://TheHotGiftsThisYear.com Tagline: Because The Best Gifts Don’t Always Come From A Store! CONTEST DETAILS: Duration 72 Hours from time stamp of post. Logo must be a layered AI Vector or Photoshop file. Clean & Simple Logo Design Professional and Modern Looking with Contemporary Lines Favicon needs to be tied in with logo and part of the brand of the site. We would like the colors to be navy, burgundy and dark green, but are open to possible other color ideas if they catch our interest. Would like to have the tagline as part of the logo. The dot com needs to be used in logo. Feedback will be given in a timely manner. Payment is $35.00 via PayPal only. GUIDELINES: Artwork must be "ORIGINAL". You must create the design yourself. If chosen as the "WINNER" you agree to give us full rights to your design and you agree that you will not use this design for anything else. Below is a concept piece that we put together. Please do not copy this artwork as this is taken from another companies logo. We like the clean look and the design of this piece. Please use it only to inspire you in your design. The colors are also the colors we are interested in using. Remember, we are looking for originality and creativity. Best of luck and we look forward to seeing all of your designs!
@Todd Duquette - Thank you for the entry. Not bad for the first entry. Don't really care for the picture or the dotcom. Would rather see you use the colors we are after and then maybe a little more creativity with the picture. Not sure we like the use of a flame. Would rather see something with a gift like the concept picture I shared. Also, rather see .com instead of dotcom. We would also like to have this on a white/transparent background where we can use it in the header of the website and not be tied down with one background color. Would like to see any other ideas you have. Thanks! @brainsurgeon - Thank you for your entry. We like the use of the font and the glow it has. Can you do something like that with the color scheme we are wanting to use? We don't care for the picture, but like your creativity here. Would prefer to see something a little more along the gift line like in the concept picture I shared. We would also like to have this on a white/transparent background where we have options for our background. This will be mainly used in the header of our website. Would like to see any other ideas you might have. @HomeBlogger - We like the simplicity and creativity with the flame, but would rather stay away from flames and somehow tie it in more with a gift box like the concept picture I shared. Also, if you can do something more with the color scheme we are after, that would be great. The use of the font and the tag line is good with the little line underneath, but would like to have the .com included somehow. Would love to see any other ideas you might have from the feedback I have share above. Ok, we are off to a good start here. So far no one has used the color scheme we are after. Please see the color scheme we would like to use in original post. These are going to be the colors for the website and would like to tie them in with the logo and favicon. I will post a picture of the colors we are after when I get home this evening so you can see exactly what we are after. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Thanks for the entries so far and we look forward to hopefully seeing a bunch more.
Ok, in an earlier post I said I would post a picture with the basic colors we are after for this logo. If you can please use these colors in your designs, that would be great. If you have some ideas that might need to change these colors a little bit, we are open to that, but feel these colors will best represent what we are trying to accomplish with this site. Thanks!
@mindze - Thank you for your entry. Not sure about the design. It doesn't have the feel we are after. Feel free to read through our other comments and submit any other ideas you might have. @Dante777 - Thanks for your entry. Not crazy about the color or the text layout. Would like to see something with the domain name all together and maybe something creative with the .com. Check out our color scheme that I just posted for the colors we are after. Would like to see a different picture or maybe something a little more on the artistic drawing side like the concept picture in my original post. Any other ideas you have, please share them. Thanks! @dlightcreative - Thank you for your entry. Sorry to say this, but this really doesn't work for us. From the color to the picture and the font it just isn't working for us. Please feel free to read our other comments and try again. Thanks! @Todd Duquette - Thanks for another entry. Well, you might be onto something here. Still don't care for the colors or the font, but the gift has some good possibilities. We like the idea of an open gift with a glow coming out of it. That definitely has some potential. Is there any way to make the gift box look a little more contemporary or with artistic lines with the glow coming out of it. A little less clipart looking would be great. Also, please see the colors I have shared in the post above this. We feel these are the colors that we want to stick with for this site. Would love to see what you might be able to do with this. One other thing, please correct the tag line as you are missing part of it. Thanks! Look forward to seeing any other ideas you might have.
@denver666 - Thanks for your entry. The text layout is good, but don't care for the colors. Please see the post I just added above for the colors we want to use. Don't really care for the picture. Please see other feedback for ideas of what we are after. Please feel free to share any other ideas you have.
@denver666 - Thanks for changing the colors, but still don't care for the picture and not sure about the use of the color in the font. It's not quite the look we are after. @EternalLight - Not a bad look. Your second one is probably the best, but the look of the one color logos is nice also. Different than what we were after, but not bad. We don't care for the picture a whole lot, but like the use of the font. Would like to see you implement the colors I posted above and give us some other ideas for a gift. Please look at my comments here and above for ideas. Thanks! One other thing, the tag line is way to small. That will not work like that as we have to fit this in the header on our site, which might cause issue with the size of this logo all together. That is why we have been after the horizontal logo. @brainsurgeon - Not bad, but really don't care for the picture. Please see comments here and above for more ideas on the look we are after. Thanks! @zasul - Ok, I must say your picture is about the closest we have seen to artistic look we are after. Don't care for the one color of it and the flame on top, but the overall concept of the box is the best so far. If we could take this and some how implement the three colors in it with the artistic look, the ribbon and maybe having the package open with some type of glow coming out of it, we might be onto something here. I think if we can maybe use the navy or maroon as the main color and then use the other two colors as accent colors, this could look really good. As far as the font goes, we are not sure about it. A little too bland and needs to be spiced up a bit. Maybe the use of some gradients or different fonts or maybe all one color that stands out and is totally different from the picture. I hope to share some logos I found at logopond.com that might give you some ideas of looks we like. I hope to have those up tonight. Would love to see some other ideas, but you are on the right track with the picture. Thanks! One other thing, please include the tag line and .com in the logo.
Ok, I went over to logopond.com and found some great logos that represent the look we are after. Below are the logos along with what it is I like about them. Hopefully this will help you in your designs. Thanks for all the ideas thus far. I really like the use of colors and lines in the picture here, plus the use of highlights. Also, I'm really starting to like the single color font and the use of the colors in the picture as you will see from most of these logos I'm sharing. Another example of great use of colors, simple and the font is one color. Looks very professional. Simple, clean and like the use of colors. Like the use of colors in the font and the simplicity of the design. Ok, there are some examples of the look we are after. Some of the designs submitted so far have gotten elements of this, but not the whole thing. I would really like to see some creativity with the picture and the font. Use the examples above to inspire you. What we like so far is the having the domain name horizontal with some creative way of adding the .com. Then we like having the tag line underneath that in a simple and clean design. Then we are really liking the idea of an open gift box with some kind of glow coming out of it. We like the look of the artistic lines or a look like the first logo example I shared above with the highlights. I think it would look really good with using either the navy or the maroon as the main color of the gift box and then using the other two colors as the highlight colors. Finally, I feel all the colors in the font is overwhelming and after seeing all the examples above, I'm starting to like the single color font. I think you get the idea from the logos I shared. Thanks for all your submissions as they have helped us get a better idea of the look we are after. Now hopefully with these ideas above you will be able to blow us away with a great design that we can use for our site. With about 24hrs left in this contest I look forward to seeing what you can do with this. Thanks again!