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lplatz
10-05-2005, 06:31 AM
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Project Summary Q & A:
Q: What text should be included in the main part of the logo?
A: Dallas White Rock Lake Dog Park

Q: What type of product or service do you offer?
A: This is a dog park open to the public to bring their dogs and allow them playtime off leash. We are located on White Rock Lake in Dallas. The park provides secured access to the lake where dogs can legally swim in the lake.

Q: How long have you been in business?
A: The park has been open approximately 5 years

Q: What do you hope to accomplish with your new identity?
A: We hope to give the park an identity w/in the community. This branding / identity will be leveraged to further promote the park through marketing and sales of park logo items (no limit to the goods we’ll wish to put this logo on).

Q: What are your long-term goals?
A: Our primary goal as a non-profit is to raise funds for on-going expansion and improvements to the dog park.

Q: Audience Profile?:
A: Dog Owners within Dallas.

Q: Who would you like to add to your audience?
A: Outside dog owners, we want to create a buzz in the business community to enlist corporate sponsors for the park. This all begins with creating an identity and promoting excitement around being associated with the dog park.

Perception/Tone/Guidelines:
Q: What type of logo would you like?
A: We’ll walk a fine line here b/t fun (we are talking about dogs here) but not cutesy. We are a non-profit organization that needs to raise funds. Our identity needs to be professional, yet fun. Our use of this logo will span from business cards and letterhead to tee shirts and ball caps. It needs to be highly reproducible both with and w/out “Dallas White Rock Dog Park” attached to the logo. We are looking for minimal use of fine detail w/in the logo to minimize loss in reproduction or costly to reproduce.

Q: Do you have any colors in mind for your logo? (if so, why?)
A: We are not currently branded in any way. We do have a web site www.dallasdogparks.org, but to the best of my knowledge, the color scheme was randomly picked. No limits. For reproduction purposes we’ll want to use a full color version of the logo on our web site, but limit the color use for the printed and embroidered items (it’s all about cost control).

Q: Do you have any specific images or icons in mind that you would definitely like to see incorporated into your logo?
None

Communication Strategy:
Q: What attributes would you like your logo to reflect about your business?
A: Warm, friendly, professional, love of dogs, trustworthy, family-oriented.

Q: What is your tagline or slogan?
A: We currently do not have a slogan or tagline

Q: What is the overall message you are trying to convey to your target audience?
A: We were the first and will continue to be the best Dog Park in the Metroplex. The park belongs to the community.

Q: Where will your new logo be used?
A: Everywhere. T-shirts, stationery, our Web site

Competitive Positioning:
Q: Who are your competitors and what do you think about their logos?
A: We don’t really have competitors, though we continue to hear rumblings about for-profit parks opening. If there is competition, it is community recognition of the parks that sprinkle the Dallas / Ft. Worth Metroplex. We continue to drive towards begin recognized for our contribution to the dog community and the commitment to providing a fun and safe environment for dogs and people to interact.

Q: List competitive URLs if possible:
A: None

Q: What sets you apart from your competitors?
A: Other than being the first of it’s kind in the Dallas Metroplex, we are located on a lake with controlled dog access to the lake. The addition of the lake access has been a huge success and favorite reason to visit our dog park for a large number of our park users.

Targeted Message:
Q: State a single-minded word or phrase that will appropriately describe your company:
A: No Leash Required

lplatz
10-14-2005, 06:48 PM
The Dog Park is on pins and needles waiting to review the creative ideas that I have assured them will come forth from this group.

All submitted concepts will be voted on by the dog park community via an on-line voting feature soon to be implemented on our web site.

Looking forward to seeing your ideas.

Les Platz
President
Dallas White Rock Lake Dog Park

Paula23
10-15-2005, 03:16 PM
Here are a few designs to start things off :)

Paula23
10-15-2005, 03:17 PM
Thanks,Paula

MOZ
10-15-2005, 05:07 PM
Here's one from MOZ. Can be any colors, I tend to stick with red white & blue for specs

Fabian
10-16-2005, 12:49 AM
Here's my entry :)

lplatz
10-16-2005, 02:01 PM
Here are a few designs to start things off :)
Paula, Thank you for your submission. As much as I wish we were more close to the mountain, alas we are flatlanders here in Dallas. However, we are located on a city lake. Incorporating a lake theme might be an interesting twist to your design. Your selected colors are great, though if you were wanting to utilize other colors combinations, please experiment... we welcome the variety.

Thanks again... I look forward to additional submissions.

Les Platz
President
WRL Dog Park

lplatz
10-16-2005, 02:05 PM
Thanks,Paula
Paula: version 2 submission -
I liked this submission and will be adding this to the designs we'll vote on.

lplatz
10-16-2005, 02:07 PM
Moz... thank you for your submission. I'll add this to the designs we'll be voting on. The Lone Star is a great angle for anything Texan.

lplatz
10-16-2005, 02:11 PM
Here's my entry :)
FABIAN... very cool submission. I did have to look at the design for a bit before I could see the dog w/in your design. However, I really enjoyed the abstract (if that's even the correct word) nature of your design. I also like your colors selected. Thank you for your submission. If you have others ideas b/t now and 10/31, we'd enjoy seeing those as well.

Les Platz
President
WRL Dog Park

Aaron
10-17-2005, 10:31 AM
Here's something... :D

lplatz
10-18-2005, 01:24 PM
I want to express how impressed I am with the logos currently submitted for consideration. I believe the dog park community will also be pleased.

In review of what has been submitted, I have noticed that no one has captured or incorporated a lake theme or concept into a logo (outside of the use of color). Our lake location is one of the unique features that differenciate us from other dog parks as well as what makes our dog park destination so popular w/in the Dallas metroplex.

I note this only as a design idea to explore, not a requirement or limiter to additional design ideas offered.

Much appreciation
Les Platz
President
WRL Dog Park

Aaron
10-18-2005, 01:56 PM
Mine has a lawn and lake incorporated into it... ;)

Paula23
10-18-2005, 02:00 PM
:)

lplatz
10-18-2005, 02:05 PM
Mine has a lawn and lake incorporated into it... ;)

Upon review of your design... you're exactly right. Actually it jumps off the page given your help with my focus. I know this will sound corny, but is it possible to place little white waves on the lake to ensure others recognize this as water, not just a great background. I realize I'm trying to stay away from fine detail w/in the design. Walking that fine line b/t form and function. Thanks for pointing that out to me.

lplatz
10-18-2005, 02:11 PM
:)
Paula... thank you for your additional submission. This is another great design. I also appreciate that you have created a design that works both with the copy "Dallas White Rock Lake Dog Park" and a design that can stand on it's own w/out the logo copy. Excellent work.

Aaron
10-18-2005, 02:35 PM
I know this will sound corny, but is it possible to place little white waves on the lake to ensure others recognize this as water, not just a great background. I realize I'm trying to stay away from fine detail w/in the design. Walking that fine line b/t form and function. Thanks for pointing that out to me.

I don't know about the typical waves per se, but what about figurative ones...like little waves coming into the shore?

lplatz
10-18-2005, 02:50 PM
I don't know about the typical waves per se, but what about figurative ones...like little waves coming into the shore?
Thanks Aaron...
I'll submit both for review. I am personally leaning towards the logo w/o the waves. I do appreciate your quick modification and stand alone logo w/o the logo copy.

When I prepare the final logos for review and vote, I would like to have a version of your original logo submission (w/out the waves) in the same 3 version format as recently submitted.

Thanks again for your excellent work!

Aaron
10-18-2005, 02:57 PM
Thanks for the feedback... I've updated post #11 to include the text-less icon as well.

Thanks again,

Aaron

Fabian
10-19-2005, 01:28 AM
G'day Les

Glad you liked my first design,this time i remembered to put in the full name :banging:

Cheers
Fabian

lplatz
10-19-2005, 09:35 AM
G'day Les

Glad you liked my first design,this time i remembered to put in the full name :banging:

Cheers
Fabian

I like your additions to your original submission. The abstract nature of your submission continues to hold my attention, I guess that is the purpose of abstract.

Again thank you for your submission. I am excited to present your logo art to the dog park community.

Cheers!!
Les Platz
President
WRL Dog Park

lplatz
10-24-2005, 01:25 PM
We are in the final days of this project and have had a good response. In review or our project goal; we are at the beginning stages of a branding campaign for a dog park. All logos submitted for this project will be placed on our dog park web site for a winning vote by the dog park community. It is my desire to provide the dog park community with as wide a selection of dog park logos as possible. We have thus far received some excellect submissions, I hope that in the final days of this project, several more will be submitted by the talent that participates in the Design Outpost community.

To the designers that I have been working with thus far, again kudos to your excellent designs and hard work. Your participation and talent is highly appreciated!!

Les Platz
President
WRL Dog Park

lplatz
11-01-2005, 04:33 PM
I wanted to pass on to the designers that submitted logos for this project. The logos have been forwarded to our web company to post on our site to begin voting. The voting will run for 7 days afterwhich we will notify the winning designer.

Thanks to all who submitted their artwork.

Les Platz
President
WRL Dog Park

Lori
11-18-2005, 06:16 AM
Hi Les,

How did your vote come out? Do you have a decision for the team?

Thanks :)

lplatz
11-18-2005, 07:56 AM
An update... Thank Lori for reminding me to update this group. We had a tie vote b/t two of the logos. We are conducting a tie breaker vote on our site and should have a decision for this group by this time next week.

Sorry for the delay and my lack of statusing this group.

I'll be in touch as soon as the vote is in.

Les Platz
President
WRL Dog Park

lplatz
11-30-2005, 09:38 AM
First and foremost, I wish to thank each of the talented logo designers for their time and talent with this project. I also wish to apologize for the late finalization of this project, and do appreciate everyones patience.

It was a close runoff vote, but in the end the dog park community selected Paula23's Version 1 design.

After notification of this project win, I would like to touch base in order to finalize the artwork and get original copies of this logo.

Again Thank You All and as always, Kudos to Design Outpost!!

Les Platz
President
WRL Dog Park

Paula23
11-30-2005, 10:16 AM
Thanks for choosing my design :)
Let me know what revisions if any you would
like and I will get started on them.

Thanks,Paula

lplatz
11-30-2005, 02:57 PM
Hi Paula,

At this juncture, I don't have any revisions to the artwork. This may not hold true forever, but what I'd like to do get copies of the artwork sent to me in a vector format and in their original layers.

I have Macromedia's Freehand so I should be able to work with the images once received.

Will that be possible. I will evenutally work with them in Photoshop, but wanted them as vectors as I understand this will give me the most freedom in resizing.

I'll also need to know what fonts were used and the color codes.

Let me know if you need more clarity on any of these requests... this in not my line of work, so I don't wish to confuse you with any of my requests.

Thanks Again!
Les Platz

Paula23
12-06-2005, 05:27 PM
Files have been sent!
Thanks,Paula :)