[Designer Chosen] Logo For InsideBlogging.com - $100

[dbarefoot]

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We are a brand new company (this week in fact). We provide blogging consulting services as well as actual “blogging” to companies. The company is being founded by Darren Barefoot (www.darrenbarefoot.com) and Jeremy Wright (www.ensight.org) mainly out of recent press around their eBay auctions (www.ensight.org/auction for one of the auctions, and see here for the CBS Marketwatch piece: http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid={D354F4C4-3F69-4ED4-9471-1C93CF7A9712}&siteid=mktw).

Our current potential clients are Fortune 500 companies all the way down to newer ventures and small businesses.

Ideas about the company that the logo might convey are 'communication', 'plain speak', 'better communication with customers', etc.

We’re looking for a logo which is “new”, “fun” as well as “clean” and "modern". Something that shows that blogging is new and alive, while still appealing to clients in all sizes of business. It’s fine if it’s a little bit “cheeky” and funny, but nothing too cartoony (unless you can make it work). Samples of logos that work along these lines might be:

http://www.skype.com/i/logos/skype.png
http://www.napster.ca/images/gfc_nap...go_landing.gif
http://www.digitaldepot.ie/images/clevercactus.gif

In terms of what the logo is comprised of, we're open to suggestions. Try to avoid obvious communication symbols, such as pens, phones, papers, computers, etc. We discussed the possibility of having an animal or humanoid mascot (as in the Napster or Clevercactus cat, above), but we're not married to that idea. Another possibility is a modern take on an old broadcast device, such as a loudspeaker or stand-up radio. Those suggestions aside, we're definitely open to ideas.

In terms of colour, we're wide open. Obviously 'new' and 'fun' may imply bolder colours, and we're happy with that.

If this works out we’ll likely ask the designer to do a template if they are interested as well.

The contest will last 1 week and will close on December 9, 2004.

Many thanks in advance for your efforts.
Jeremy and Darren

[Carl]

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[MOZ]

Here's an old radio concept from MOZ....you can almost here Edward Murrow!

[dbarefoot]

Carl: Nice first effort--it's certainly in the ballpark of what we were imagining. You've captured the sense of modernness and fun. A few additional thoughts:

* We like the bevelled look of the speech bubble in the second version, but prefer the solid text of the first. Do you think these styles (of the bubble and the text) can peacefully co-exist?

* We figure the individual tooth marks need to be bigger.

* I'm not sure that we'll have a tagline, but could we see a different version of the speech bubble with the text in the bubble?

* For kicks, can we see another colour scheme?

Moz: Thanks for this--it looks cool (nice texture), but I don't think it's quite our bag. I think we're looking for a free-standing icon/symbol/mascot with the text separately. Additionally, we're likely to extract the colour scheme from the logo, so it's a tad brown for our tastes.

Thanks for all your work thus far.

[Carl]

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[Michael]

Hello

I'm presuming its insiderblogging.com instead of insideblogging.com as in the project title

[Tonya]

[Paula23]

Thanks,palua

[Carl]

I'm presuming its insiderblogging.com instead of insideblogging.com as in the project title

I think this is my bad. I must have added the "r" when typing out the name during the design process.

I will change it tonight. Sorry guys.

[Michael]

Originally posted by Carl
I think this is my bad. I must have added the "r" when typing out the name during the design process.

I will change it tonight. Sorry guys.

[Mark]

* Deleted because I will be using this for something else.

[Just J]

[dbarefoot]

Hi everybody,
Thanks for these. I'm going to confer with my partner Jeremy and will probably make a final seclection in the morning. Cheers. DB.

[dbarefoot]

Thanks to everyone for their excellent work. This is my first time using Design Outpost, and it's been a great experience.

Ultimately, we've decided to go with Carl's take-a-bite-out-of-blogging design, as it best captures the look and feel we're going for.

Carl, we prefer the original green and blue logo. Can you furnish us with Photoshop and Illustrator files?

Thanks again to everyone for their submissions! Cheers. DB.

[Mark]

Congrats Carl! The best man won!

[Carl]

Darren / Jeremy,

I sent a PM to Darren with the file location.

All files have been uploaded to my server and are available for download.

Carl...



Mark,

Thanks!.

I can't possibly be da man, because........


YOU DA MAN!