[ProjectComplete]Jan. 15 : $200 : Photography Logo

[Ridout]

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Dear Designers,
I have been a forum lurker for about a year and have seen some very professional results. Hopefully everyone hasn't taken off on holidays and you can share some creative stuff. I'll do my best to keep you on track without waisting allot of your time. If it sucks I'll tell you. ;) My current logo isn't the worst I have seen but it just doesn't work for me anymore. I am in dire need of something new and fresh. Here is my current logo and the site past the landing page where the new logo will go.
WEBSITE (http://www.ridoutphotography.com)

Project Summary:
What text should be included in the main part of the logo?

Ridout Photography
It doesn't need to be Capatilized if that effects your design.

What type of product or service do you offer?
Portrait & Wedding Photography

How long have you been in business?
25 years

What do you hope to accomplish with your new identity?
Early Retirement

What are your long term goals?
Making more money...expanding business

When is the deadline for final entries before choosing a designer?
Jan. 15th 2008

Audience Profile:
Please describe your existing audience
Semi-Pro and Professional Photographers, wedding couples, family's seeking inspiration, fun, creative imagery


Perception/Tone/Guidelines:
What type of logo would you like?

the logo should be funky, fun, edgy, creative, wow, cooool,...please no kissing hearts,rings,film strips,cameras

Do you have any colors in mind for your logo? (if so, why?)
I am open for color ideas but would like to keep the design two colors. Currently I am using Cyan and Black for my current logo.

Do you have any specific images or icons in mind that you would definitely like to see incorporated into your logo?

I would like to have "ridout photography" separate from the logo so that I can use the logo as a sticker or watermark for photos and on a blog together with the name. I like circle logos and rectangular logos.

Communication Strategy:
What attributes would you like your logo to reflect about your business?
creative, fresh and professional

What is your tagline or slogan?
I accept cash . Just kidd'in I don't have one.

What is the overall message you are trying to convey to your target audience?
this cat is no ordinary photographer :)

Where will your new logo be used?
It will be used on my current site in the current location, in a header on a blog, as a watermark on posted and printed photos and if it's really good I'll tattoo it on my a$$.:eek:



List competitive URLs if possible
n/a

What sets you apart from your competitors?
my photography

Targeted Message:
State a single-minded word or phrase that will appropriately describe your company:
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[Leclerk]

Hi!

http://www.logoholik.com/do/logoholik_rideoutp_01.jpg

Cheers,
Bojan

[Ridout]

Thanks for getting it rolling. A few thoughts.

1/ I see that you are trying to incorporate the "R" and "P" into the logo and I like that. I believe that the logo design should have both letters incorporated into the design in either a square, rectangle or circle.

2/ no "e" in Ridout :)

3/ I don't like the font in Rideout Photography although I suspect you were trying to come close to the text on my current site at www.ridoutphotography.com The font I am willing to purchase so that I can match the tabs for each of the gallerys if need be. I'm also working on a new website that will have the logo and name placed in the upper right of the screen as a png allowing the image to show behind it.

4/more importantly think outside the box! The logo should match my personality here...funky,edgy,cool,creative,fun
http://dontboxmein.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/mark-ridout-ontario-canada/

[Ridout]

Hey Logoholic try something along your "PreTheory" logo from your website.

[Leclerk]

How's this?

http://www.logoholik.com/do/logoholik_rideoutp_02.jpg

[Leclerk]

and fresh new concept...

http://www.logoholik.com/do/logoholik_rideoutp_03.jpg

[Leclerk]

in horizontal layout...

http://www.logoholik.com/do/logoholik_rideoutp_04.jpg

Cheers,
Bojan

[Leclerk]

and with a little twist :)

http://www.logoholik.com/do/logoholik_rideoutp_05.jpg

[tini1]

:)

[Ridout]

Logoholik- as far as the type treatment I do like the use of bold and lighter text to separate the two names. I can see that you are trying to get an R and P together i just don't dig the reflection on the R. Not fond of the logo itself. After seeing Tini's post i have decided that a free floating logo would be the way to go.

Tini1: -you came out of the gates strong. When i look at the logo it appears not as an "r" and a "p" but what i see is a head with outstretched arms as if from viewing above the photographer. Perhaps we should dump the concept of putting the logo into a box or circle. The more I think about this to me it is too conforming....to boxed in... By free floating the logo it creates openess,creativity.... Lets free float the logos. Is there a way to drop the box...angle the logo to give it energy and see if you can better what you have started perhaps trying to get an r and a p from the design . Your text treatment is good. Clean and simple. Your onto something

[tini1]

:)added to the 'r'.....:)

[tini1]

'p'.......:)

[glyphica]

Hi :)

[glyphica]

another color variation....

[Ridout]

Tini1-I prefer post#11 over #12 I don't like the "p" in the box...looks awkward in #12 Don't get fixated on the design. I didn't realize how difficult it would be to convey something through typing. I will look at anything including different type faces and logos. The text dosen't have to match the current site. Perhaps a romantic scrip with logo. love,romance but yet edgy. Is there such a thing :)

Kekepania
too simple and quite frankly boring...I actually played with this idea years ago and gave up. Lets not get hung up on the text(font) theme that is evident in all of the posts( I do like the different thicknesses) or that the leters 'R' and "p" have to be in the logo. Thanks for posting

nothing yet that I would tattoo on my a$$ :)

[Ridout]

Tini1- I definitely think the logo works better outside a box. I am not sold on the change to graphic so it so obviously looks like an "r". Although I understand that when used without the words it at least conveys the first letter of my name. To that notion, I would say look at the NIKE swish, it has come to represent NIKE, yet when used by itself there is no subliminal "n" in play. A good graphic has appeal on its own and merging it with your wordmark often enough will connect it subliminally when the words aren't used all the time. Another example, the Scotiabank flying s.?


What has been achieved with your earlier alteration/rendering is energy. The graphic no longer looks static. That said, the type (wordmark doesn't work well in that size, in that location).


....so to make a long story short I don't have to see the letters of my name it was just a starting point although I like my name :)

[tini1]

more free flowing...:)

[Ridout]

TINI1-your best yet was message#9 but there's something missing. I still go back to that and it looks like a head with arms outreached. A photographer gathering the crowd which is ok. If only the p could look a tad more recognizable. I would also like the logo to the left of the text on any future posts if possible.

Thank you all for the early start....anyone else want to give it a try?

[Leclerk]

http://www.logoholik.com/do/logoholik_rideoutp_06.jpg

[tini1]

:)

[Ridout]

Just to let you know I will be off to Texas shooting and will not be checking in and replying until Tuesday Dec. 10th ....surprise me with your creative genius on my return :tup:
....again I'm open to any creative fresh, funky, new ideas....the latest logo tini1 is too industrial looking. Perhaps we should try some concepts with a different text font. We need more players.

[Ridout]

Tini1: any chance you could go back to original of the outstretched arms and head (message 9) lose the box, place left of ridout photography? and try any variances of that but don't extend the r like you did in 11 and see if you can make the p a tad more noticeable without making it blatant. Does that make sense?


anyone else wanna join the mayhem
:confused:

[tini1]

different font...:)

[Ridout]

It sure would be great to have more then yourself and I working :)

I wouldn't mind seeing if you could angle the logo slightly(not as much as you did in your other reworks) and is there a font similar to the "r" in the logo? any better ideas on the "p"

[OffbeatDesign]

v1

[OffbeatDesign]

v2

[OffbeatDesign]

v3

[Fabian]

Im hoping I don't make total a$$ out of myself :whistle:

[Fabian]

version 2

[Fabian]

version 3

[Ridout]

Hey offbeat thanks for jumpin in......I blew my coffee out through my nose when I saw the kissing a$$ logo ...I had a good laugh though. sorry.....somehow I don't think that will appeal to the clients that I am after. Your other logos just don't do it for me. #27 is too close to what I already have.

[BlueCherryGraphics]

v1

[Ridout]

Hi Jennifer,
thanks for the try.....I like the text(without the drop shadow as that becomes difficult to embroider when used on clothing) but the logo's not do'in it for me.

[Ridout]

Happy New Year!!!!!....some interesting ideas but the supplied examples feel too rigid for my personality and my approach to photography.

I would like my logo to reflect who I am. Fun, Zany, Hip, Happening, with a twist of culture. I would welcome a design with a twist of whimsy. The logo needs to work in two colour and black only formats, no three and four colour logos.
Colours that I am leaning towards are cyan/blk fuscia/black but open to your design ideas.

Font selection needs to be modern. Color choices should be in keeping with current Euro trends. I need a Brand identity with bot an Icon and wordmark that can be used separately or together.

I want a logo that works in both vertical and horizontal applications. (two variations if necessary)

I am looking for something off the beaten path!!! and your CREATIVITY is most welcome. Be the designer that I have seen in other posts :)

[Blesseville]

http://www.blesseville.com/do/rp1.jpg

[Ridout]

thanks for posting blesseville. Nice way to start the New Year. I am hoping others will join. It is the best of what has been posted thus far but not doing it for me yet.....any other designs you can supply. Jan. 15th I would love to close this out. Anyone else?

[OffbeatDesign]

v4

[OffbeatDesign]

v5, playing off the name

[Ridout]

Offbeat, thanks for joining in. Don't like the font in either and do not like the logo in #38.. Sorry. I want to see a font that isn't similar to my current logo. Would even like to see a script font used if possible. Something modern, fresh, flowing.

[OffbeatDesign]

v6

[OffbeatDesign]

v7

[OffbeatDesign]

v8

[Ridout]

37, 40 and 42 don't like the idea of text only. 41 is the best of the recent posts but not lov'in it.

[freetime]

Here's a look from me.

[Ridout]

Hey freetime....I know what it is :) and you know what it is but my clients won't. Can't use it....sorry. Thanks for entering. Anything else?

[glyphica]

here's another idea

[Blesseville]

http://www.blesseville.com/do/ridout2.jpg

[freetime]

v2

[plum74]

v1

[Ridout]

Can't say any of these are doing it for me!!! Only a few days left :(
Hey Plum any other ideas?

Kekepania #46 is interesting but I would love for a designer or yourself to come up with the "ridout photography" in text that doesn't look boxey or similar to the font in my current logo. Could you show me some variations of the boxed "r" ....could you get a "r" and a "p" from the same letter?

[OffbeatDesign]

v9

[OffbeatDesign]

v10

[OffbeatDesign]

v11

[freetime]

V3

[freetime]

v4

[Ridout]

#51 I don't mind the logo. Maybe a different font using the same concept. A fatter font and tighter box. Don't like the font used in the "ridout photography" I'm trying to get something that looks nothing like my current logo.

#52 don't like it

#53 again don't like it.

#54 and 55 is just too boxey....don't like either. Sorry.

[OffbeatDesign]

v12

[OffbeatDesign]

"P" hidden inside the "R"

[OffbeatDesign]

v14

[freetime]

v5

[Taldo]

hi :)

[Ridout]

v9
#51-could i see an equal amount of black on the three sides other then the side that doesn't have the letter bleeding off. A smaller box may look better. Don't like the type/font used in "ridout photography". Could you try something similar to #54 or #59 with no caps

[Ridout]

v5

Hey Freetime...showed this one to my marketing buddy and we both agreed that we didn't like the shape of the logo. The concept is interesting. Could you achieve the same effect but with a square shape instead of a circle?

[Ridout]

#58, #59, #61 don't like them

[OffbeatDesign]

Sure. Here are a few options.

[OffbeatDesign]

v16

[OffbeatDesign]

v17

[Ridout]

v17
Thanks offbeat: still would like to see a tighter black box around the text and the name "ridout photography" similar to #12 text....so that the name ridout is the same length as the word photography... Make the letters flush with the top and bottom of the smaller black box.

Any other designers out there want to post before the 15th of January. Come in at the last minute and grab the loot! :eek:

[freetime]

Sure thing. v6

[OffbeatDesign]

v18

[OffbeatDesign]

v19

[OffbeatDesign]

v20

[OffbeatDesign]

v21

[OffbeatDesign]

v22

[BlueCherryGraphics]

V2

[Ridout]

Thanks Blue Cherry......I will be making my decision tomorrow morning. If there are any other designers that want to get in and pull off an upset "get er done" ....at this stage of the game I'll look at anything :)

[BlueCherryGraphics]

V3

Abstract r/p + "a picture's worth a thousand words"

[freetime]

I know you said you would make your decision this morning. Since you haven't posted yet, I thought I'd throw this one in. Vertical version of Message #69. Thanks! :ph34r:

[Ridout]

Thank you all for your time and patience. I am choosing offbeats design version #19 I will require an eps, ilustrator and psd file

[OffbeatDesign]

Thank you very much. Please check your private messages for file download instructions.

[Ridout]

Thanks....files have been downloaded. Could you let me know what font you used for "ridout" and "PHOTOGRAPHY"
Thanks again,
Mark

[OffbeatDesign]

Details in private messages. Thanks.