$30 Logo Contest - Seeking Clean, Simple Design - 24 Hour Contest

I am looking for a logo for FlipWebsites.com (as in buying and selling websites). DON'T use anything on that site because it's old and very outdated!!

The logo can be any color, style, etc. I will be designing the site around the logo in terms of style, colors, etc.

I hired a designer a while back to create a couple concepts for me but I didn't like them so I never used them. Here are those concepts and what I like and don't like about each. It might help.

Version 1
I really like the flipping concept (showing the Flip upside down and turned around). What I don't like is the 1980's, "Atari-looking" font...lol.

Version 2
I like the colors and having the word "Websites.com" running vertically, but at first glance, FLIP looks like FUP (the L and the I blend together and it looks like a U - especially when you shrink the size of the logo). Given this, I don't think the logo can have all upper case letters. I think you have to use: Flip - and if you do that, the vertical use of Websites.com won't work.

If your logo is going to indicate a flipping action, make it simple and obvious like Version 1. Otherwise, a simple text logo can work too - as long as it looks good

I will send the winner a PayPal payment once the winner is declared.

Thanks,

Travis

P.S. While this is a contest for only one logo, I am looking for a designer who can work on a couple other headers for me and some image buttons. So ideally the winning designer will be interested (and available) to do more work for me - but this isn't a requirement to win the contest.

 

what do you think about this: ?

 

All areas can be changed, let me know what you think.

Thanks

 

another concept:





feedback appreciated

 

you can see the "F" is flipped upside down

 

This one actually isn't that bad except I don't like the upside down "flip" part of it. This still isn't exactly what I'm looking for but if you took the upside down "flip" out of the logo it would be o.k.

Travis

 

All of them are way too busy...too many "moving parts" going on.

Travis

 

Way too busy and confusing. Hard to read with all the text and backward text.

Travis

 

Just doesn't do anything for me. The boxes around the F and the W just don't make sense and if you take them out you just have a plain text logo that doesn't "pop" or have any "wow" factor.

Travis

 

Interesting. The arrow and the ball don't really indicate "flipping." And the text part of the logo is just o.k.

Travis

P.S. It's WebsiteS

 

This one is kind of interesting but for some reason it screams Sesame Street. But I have to say, of all the entrants so far this one grabbed my attention the most but it's still not quite what I'm looking for.

Travis

 

Hmmm...this one is probably my favorite so far simply because the rest of the concepts don't grab me yet. It's simple...clean...and could work if I don't see anything better.

The only thing is it's WebsiteS - as in more than one site

Travis

 

Thanks for feedback Do you like general idea of it and would like to see it in different fonts, colors or materials ? or it just not what you want in general ?

 

Opps, sorry. I can fix it up for you if you want.

 

1st enty :


2nd :

 

my 3rd:

 

I wanted to give the designers a new direction to consider that just dawned on me. I would like to see a "reflection-type" logo. Here is a page that shows how the text creates a reflection - and the reflection obviously produces the "upside down" effect, which would indicate flipping in a subtle way.

http://library.creativecow.net/articles/okerstrom_jon/reflections.php

However, I don't think I want to see big, obnoxious 3D text logos!! I think a clean, simple text logo that creates a "reflection" underneath it...I think this might be what I'm looking for but I'd have to see it to be for sure. Just make sure the reflection is soft and subtle like the examples shown on the page above.

Thanks,

Travis