A Lonely Place For DyingLogo Design Contest

In A Covert War The Only Way To Hide The Truth Is To Bury It.

Lonely Place, LLC, the production company for the award-winning feature film, A Lonely Place For Dying, is seeking a new set of branded "laurel leaves" for our movie as it wins awards at film festivals across the globe.

PREFERRED COLORS INCLUDE:
The color palette of the desolate Mexican desert: adobe, sandstone, sage, chocolate and rust.

COLORS TO AVOID:
Cliched colors of the Southwest, such as Turquoise.

Please reference traditional laurel leaves used at film festivals and on award winning movies. We aren't trying to reinvent the wheel here. We simply want a cleaner, more sophisticated version of the traditional "laurels" found on award-winning movies.

In general, laurels are generic and ugly. Here is a common set used:

http://www.k7movie.com/images/K7_laurels.gif

Those laurels and the text layout makes an artist want to cry. About 90% of all award-winning films use the same, boring, ugly, complicated set of laurels. We want to do better. You can help us.

Here are the main problems with existing laurels:

1.) They do not scale well. When printed on 4x6 postcards or as a row at the top of a movie poster, they have poor silhouette value and are difficult to read. They simply look like a busy mash of graphics.
2.) The shape and style of the laurels is generic, clunky, flat and ugly. Clearly, laurels are an ancient, classic symbol but these laurels have to be the worst interpretation of such symbolism.
3.) They often create awkward pockets of negative space when text is inserted between them. The laurels themselves need to be designed to accomodate the typical text that will exist between each laurel branch.

Because of this, please include the following generic text in your design:

WINNER
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
DURANGO INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
2009

OR:

OFFICIAL SELECTION
DURANGO INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
2009

Those are the two types of "text blocks" that exist on all laurels.