[Project Complete] Due Jan 3rd – logo for "FEEDS 2.0" website - $170

[sogrwig]

Admin code added by Abby - 4A433847KW865905Y , 9EK43604U61165140

What we do:
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We are launching a new web service that is an intelligent web
rss feeds aggregator! To explain this further: we gather news
in the form of RSS feeds from sources specified by the user,
and by using machine learning algorithms we adapt the website
according to the users preferences to show interesting and relevant
feeds based on the reader's habits. The more articles the reader
clicks on, the more personalized the output becomes.


Our name: feeds 2.0 (case INsensitive)


Our website: feeds2.com (not alive yet!)




1. "feeds 2.0" must be in the logo. Feel free to try anything like a moto,
icon or not, ...or anything else that fits!

2. We want our logo to be contemporary, depict technology, web
and intelligence! It must represent a "cutting edge" web service, be
sleek and corporate - professional looking.

3. Preferred colours are: all variations of blue, black, dark red, grey. But any
color is welcome!

4. This logo will be printed everywhere (our website, business cards,
magazines, t-shirts, background on white paper, vehicles, wherever).

5. It must be in a scaleable vector format, a large, a small
and a black & white version of it must be provided. We must
have all rights to the design when this contest is complete
but the designer may use the logo in his portfolio!



Please, tell me if you need any more information from
us. I will post DETAILED feedback on EVERY submission.


The feeds2.0 team.


CONTEST END = Thursday, December 22, 2005
CONTEST PRIZE = $150.00

[Blesseville]

My try, feedback appreciated.

[Ratbaggy]

Hi, here's an idea.

Let me know your thoughts.

Cheers,

Paul

[eziey]

[djaka]

my submission,
hope you like it

[sogrwig]

Thanks to all designers who have participated so far!


Comments for:


Medigraph:
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We like that it’s plain and simple. If you focus on the text part
of the logo, you will see that the font is really simple (nothing special). Can
you provide us with a version with a different approach on the font ? The
colors are nice. The icon reminds us of real-estate businesses. Something
different that resembles news in a way ?



Ratbaggy:
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Paul, thank you for joining. Your approach is… too round! Also the
top line of the word feeds, the way it is joined, gives a “speed” effect
to the logo. It reminds us of courier companies logos. The font is nice,
but a bit stretched. Can you provide us with a revision where the top
line is gone and some more color(s) is added ?




Eziey:
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We liked your proposal a lot. We don’t know if you meant it to be
that way, but the two E’s the way they are positioned, reminds us of a news
paper, which is really good for our service that deals with news. Can you
make the E’s resemble a news paper even more, but still remain clear visible
letters ? Perhaps a little font change (style, size or something else) in the “2.0”
part of the logo would be nice…



djaka:
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Hello djaka. The word feeds is unreadable. The joined letters hide what the
word says. We liked the “2.0” part, the way it is positioned. The way you
join the two e’s together, form a pair of eyes or binoculars or something.
Can you expand on this a little bit ? It would be nice if this could depict
information or news in a way.



Thank you all very much. We are waiting for the revisions. Any other
designers that will join the contest ?

The feeds2.0 team

[eziey]

[djaka]

[splunking]

Here is my entry. Thanks for your time

- Cindy
Flashbrite Studios

[Blesseville]

A feedback envelope?

[Blesseville]

graph of analyses?

[BlueCherryGraphics]

Hi,

A couple from me:

[BlueCherryGraphics]

v2

[djaka]

this is another feeds

[sogrwig]

Hello designers. Thanks to all who have joined. Comments for
your latest proposals:


Eziey:
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Much better! The two E's are starting to resemble a newspaper.
Can you make the two E's a bit curvier and have both the
same color that separates them from the red that the rest of
the logo has ? Perhaps the grey that is used for the E's could
change into something more "graphic" (white with small black-grey
lines) so that it resembles a news paper even more. Thank you for
participating.



Djaka:
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version 2: Hello Djaka. This version is much better than the previous one,
but still the letters seem quite unreadable and too connected.
Some thoughts: perhaps the "f" would be better in capital ("F").
Also, the blue color is not matching a lot this logo. How about
a different coloring for your proposal ? And gradient color does not
look very nice... Btw, we love the "2.0" part. Very nicely positioned.

version 4: Very nice colors (we love the dark red for "feeds"). The orange
is fine but can you try something else ? The arrow inside the letters
looks a bit old fashined to us.



splunking:
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Thanks for joining. What we did not like in your proposal is the
italic font. Some thoughts that might look better: Darker red color
for the background, making the two e's smaller than the rest of
the letters and giving a shape on the border (outline) that depicts
something in the area of information, news, intelligence, ... The
current shape of the border is nothing that relates to anything
of the above.



Medigraph:
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version 2: The envelope is a very nice idea, but we think it's
cluttered. Can you reduce the colors for the envelope and make
it a bit clearer and also make the three lines that make the F
on the envelope a bit sharper ? (I know this is a vague comment!
Perhaps you have some ideas how to achieve what we are asking)

version 3: Not as good as the envelope. Also, too much colors, and
the "feeds 2.0" is not looking good turned that way. But the idea to
show a graph is nice. Any thoughts ?



CoffeehouseStudio:
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Hello Jennifer. Thanks for joining. We did not like the hemisphere
that you put on the "2.0" part. It makes the logo a bit "cluttered".
Version 2 looks better that version 1, without the border. Some ideas:
Change the font for the "2.0" part. Also, please try a different color
for it. Dish the dots "..." and one other idea: the "ee" parts could
make a pair of eyes. Could this fit in your design without making it
childish or cluttered ?



Thanks to everyone who has joined so far. Any other one that plans to
enter this contest ?


The feeds2.0 team

[eziey]

V3

[eziey]

V4

[sogrwig]

to Eziey:

We were talking about some kind of texture on the E's
like:



We are not sure this would look good! Just testing...

[BlueCherryGraphics]

[mbleigh]

I tried to incorporate a symbol similar to those who would already be reading RSS (in a way doubled for 2.0) while maintaining a crisp, professional, modern look. Shown also in black and white as requested and without the slogan to show scalability.

[sogrwig]

Can you make in normal font (not italics)... We just want to see the difference, we don't like italic fonts!

[BlueCherryGraphics]

v4

[BlueCherryGraphics]

v5

[BlueCherryGraphics]

v6

[mbleigh]

Here's without the italics. Hope you like it

[eziey]

[eziey]

...

[sogrwig]

CoffeehouseStudio
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Hello Jennifer. Thanks for all the proposals! The
best ones are versions 3 and 6. We have no comment
for you right now. Please read the comments for
all designers, and maybe you can submit a new
version of them.




eziey
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The newspaper texture was a bad idea (we had)! Your best version
so far is version 2. Can you supply a new version of it,
with the two "EE" having the same color (preferably not grey,
something else) and a darker red color for the rest of the letters ?
Thank you very much.





mbleigh
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The normal font looks much better than the italic one. About the
icon part, please see comments for all designers, and one more thing:
the font used in your proposal is a bit thick. How about making it
a bit more plain (one idea: use a "Georgia" - like font -> looks
asymmetric with some letters having different height, especially
in the "2.0" part)






to all designers: SOME IDEAS
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How about some scattered letters of the English alphabet
(on tiles perhaps?) that somehow form the word FEEDS? The
idea behind this concept is that our users will get out
something useful and readable out of the RSS information
overload!



One other thing: the commonly adopted icon for RSS feeds in
browsers (IE and FF) now, is this one:






Also, the commonly used icon for an RSS feed is an orange "XML"
or "RSS" icon.






[ There was a contest for it here in DO:

http://www.designoutpost.com/forums/...&highlight=rss ]



Perhaps this icon (not necessarily in orange or exactly the way
it is) could somewhere fit the design.


Thank you for participating. Any other designers that will join ?

the feeds2.0 team.

[eziey]

v7

[eziey]

v8