Chicago Photo SafarisLogo Design Contest

Hello! Here are some hints for getting the most out of your contest:

~~ Rank designs daily -- this will encourage participation.
~~ Rank and re-rank a variety of designs to get a variety of new entries.
~~ Ranking gets your contest noticed! Unless your contest is private, 1st place entries are posted to the portfolio page: https://logotournament.com/portfolio
~~ Ranking designs daily will also keep your contest from getting cluttered.
~~ The more feedback you provide, the better results you are going to see.
~~ Designers are not offended by "Not Interested"
~~ Over-use of "Not Interested" discourages participation.
~~ Ranking is a non-monitary means of showing apprecaition for designers hard work.
~~ Designers earn points for ranked designs. We like to earn points.

More detailed information on how to get the most out of your contest can be found here:
https://logotournament.com/forum/general_discussion/914

A designer recommended posting an update to our brief here regarding font. We are looking for a clean, modern font that you normally associate with photography and/or a throwback to the past with the safari idea (but if it is a throwback, it still needs to be clean enough to embroider on a shirt on the front chest position). We are trying to stay away from fonts like the following: Bauhaus, Impact, Arial Black or anything that is super bold and/or bubbly. Sorry for any confusion on that and thanks for the suggestion, nong!

One more note... we wear safari hats many times to identify our leaders and it might be interesting to incorporate something like that into a logo. You can view photos of this hat at http://tiny.cc/zn986.

We have invited our staff to vote on their favorites, tell us what they like & don't like about each submission and will post more comments to designs soon!

Thank you to all designers who have submitted ideas for the logo! During a recent meeting we had, someone asked if it might be possible to incorporate our tagline into the logo. Would it be possible to design a logo that includes "Chicago Photo Safaris" and "Adventures are only a click away!"?

Again, we love what you all are submitting! Thank you so much for your entries!

Designers, we want to thank you all again for your submissions; they are wonderful! We requested an extension on the contest for a couple of reasons:

1) Provide more time to develop logos utilizing the tagline
2) Allow for Labor Day vacations for you guys
3) Work 1 on 1 with logo concepts we really like to get exactly what we're looking for

Starting today, our management team will meet DAILY to rank all logos, mark logos we don't like as out immediately and give feedback to designers still in the running with what we request changed, if anything. We really appreciate your time and work on this and you've all given us a great direction to move towards. Thank you again and we're excited to finish this contest and select the winner!

We will be completing today's review (Sept 4) later in the evening CST. Thank you for all of the additional submissions!

To all designers: Our next review will be from 7-10 PM CST on Monday, September 6th.

Just a heads up, the website had an update this morning that appears to have caused every logo uploaded to be numbered as #1. Since we're at the stage where we will be asking for minor changes that will make it difficult to distinguish 1 logo from another, we are awaiting a response from the support team about a fix for this. If you're going to submit something before this is fixed, could you put a custom mark or number in the corner so we have some way to reference which design we're looking at / talking about? Hopefully this is fixed soon! Thanks for your patience!

Just an FYI... The numbering issue has been resolved. Thanks for your patience!

FYI to designers: we will be making our final decision on the winner on Saturday. THE RANKINGS AT THE END OF THE DAY TODAY MAY CHANGE AFTER WE HOLD OUR FULL REVIEW ON SATURDAY. Our top choices right now (we know others may be submitted today before contest ending) are (listed alphabetically):

LASS TBD: Some of these designs look expensive to us. We're still out on whether this represents fun enough, but some judges really appreciate the elegance presented in the designs. The overall favorite (to compete against other finalists) will be determined during Saturday's meeting.

NONG CAMERA / TRAVEL: Font choice TBD. If this image is selected, we will ask for minor tweaking of font tracking (depending on font selected) and potential combination of fonts into 1 image. Nong, we really appreciate your quick turnaround on our requests and giving us the variety you have. It really helps us in making sure our final image represents what we're trying to get across. Also, your use of the camera with the travel idea is wonderful!

SUNARDI HAT: We love your creativity on this one, Sunardi. If this image is selected, we will ask for minor tweaking of hat placement.

THARANGA JEEP (BACK): We love the clean lines you've created in this. We still do not have the final image we've requested (tweeks to the back tire) so that would be a final request if this image is selected as the winner.

We are moving around entries in the ranking in order to compare certain entries together; we will complete final rankings in the next couple of days. Thanks again to everyone who submitted designs! We are so impressed with your abilities and creativity!

We are getting feedback from our customer base - very interesting comments! Again, thanks for your patience; we will be announcing in the next few days final results.

A quick update:

We have narrowed the field to 3 designs/designers (listed alphabetically):
#174 (maybe 173) Lass
#169 Nong (with requested changes)
#181 Sunardi

Thanks again for your work and we will announce the final winner after reviewing a couple of requested changes later this week!

Winner will be posted on Friday, September 17th after final internal meeting! We're excited about this!