Blackbelt ProcurementLogo Design Contest

Here are some initial comments:
please try to get a middle to darker green into the designs. Entry #8 by Graphic Nature is very interesting because of the use of so many different attributes (outlines, designs, colors, word placement, font size).

If someone wants to play around with either a dollar sign being chopped in half or a black belt around it, squeezing it I would be interested in your ideas. Same goes for a black belt just squeezing a dollar sign.

Surprised no one has used someone in a karate uniform with black belt in any design. Here's an idea: have them chopping between the wrods balck and belt.

Keep them coming

More comments: many of the latest entries seem too dark. They do not catch my eye.

Come back to the concept of global reach, savings to companies. Black belt means "master" of something. Not sure what else to say right now.

Show me what you've got.

Search for blackbelt investors or other similar logos.

here are some others things I found on the web:

http://www.hatchwise.com/contest_detail.php?contestid=123

http://www.designcontest.net/forum/finished-contests/12997-black-belt-recruiter-220-july-8th.html#post109919

I have seen some other black belt type logos on this site, but I cannot search them. That is where the idea for this branch of the company comes from.

The term black belt has become widely known as a way to describe an expert in martial arts, where a practitioner's level is often marked by the color of the belt. The black belt is commonly the highest belt color used and denotes a high degree of competence.

Key words are expert, high degree of competence, highest level.

http://businessblackbeltnetwork.ning.com/

An interesting take on splitting the words and such as a logo.

http://blackbeltsociety.net/

another

latest feedback; some great ideas, but what is catching me is something that reflects action or something that is straight-forward and bold. The ideas with words or letters that are hard to read just do not work.

Would like to see a little more color; darker blues, contrasts of colors in words (such as one word, one color, next word another. Figures a third color. Etc. Colors have to match the item. Black belt should be at least half black. Dollar sign should be green or mostly green, etc.

Can't wait to see the final entries.

Regards,

Tom E.

can you add the following:

add the tag line "Global Resources. Global Solutions. Global Focus"

try to use a different color for the tag line.

All, great stuff today. Wonderful ideas. Keep them coming.