Thanks for making the first post! #1 meets all of our guidelines and is a great start, so thank you so much for taking the time to submit it!
1) I think the white gradient in the icon is throwing it off a bit, so if possible, we would love to see it with a less prominent gradient (maybe more of a greenish fade instead of white?). 2) We'd also like to see how it looks with a few color variations instead of the green (like blue and orange maybe?). 3) Lastly, we were wondering if you had any ideas on how some kind of money symbol could be used in the design while still keeping it looking clean? Perhaps a very subtle coin faded into the background behind the phone and dots?
We like it, and would love to see a few more variations along these lines. Thanks again!
Anyway, for your convenience, based on my 3months experiences here in LT, there will be much more entries submitted later on last day/minute before your contest end. We called them "last minute ninja". Most of them are really great design. Maybe you need to take patience to wait for :)
We have plenty of patience. I've done some LT contests in the past for other organizations, and my experience has been the same. Lots of people submitting at the last minute, and then when the contest gets extended because we need time to look over the last minute designs, everyone withdraws their logo because they get mad that it was extended. It is kind of silly and annoying. But I've never seen it go for this long without any submissions. We don't really have time to extend this one, so we will probably ignore last minute submissions completely, and we really appreciate that you posted early.
As for your changes, I think there might've been a little miscommunication. They are definitely interesting and we are taking them into consideration, but #1 is still our favorite. Here's our feedback:
1) We like the black and white parts of #1. The phone and dots should stay white and the text should stay black. That looks great to us! 2) We were definitely wrong with the green fade in the gradient. The way you had it before in #1 looks much better (with the white), so I apologize for doubting it. 3) When we mentioned color variation, we meant blue or orange instead of the green. We think this logo looks good with just black, white, and with shades of one other color. So, we meant to go back to #1 and just change the colors of the green parts to blue and orange (2 different submissions). 4) The dollar sign in #2 and #3 looks thrown in there, which is not really what we had in mind. We were thinking maybe a few additions to the globe shape at the bottom could make it look more like a coin, which we think would look really cool. 5) The arc of the globe in #1 also looks better. It looks like you made it curve less in #2 and #3.
Thanks again for your hard work. We truly appreciate your time.
Here are some newest submissions I've finished. Regarding your suggestion to make the globe shape look like a coin, I still can't find the way to make it look properly to submit, so #11 may be another way at this time to accomodate the coin idea. Anyway, I really like a coin idea. I think it will work to communicate about detail bill. Thanks - Naura.
#6 looks like a duplicate of #1, so we put it in the not interested section. Is there something different that we are missing?
We like the blue on #7 (but I think we like the green better), and don't like the yellowish-orange on #8 or #9. But thanks for making them for us!
We like the angled phone better than the straight phone in #10. The angle definitely calls attention to it, which is fantastic.
Last, but not least, #11 is our favorite so far. The coin in the background definitely gives it a little something extra without being too strong. We kept #12 too because we see the potential of adding a unique border to it, but the border is a bit too bright and stands out a bit too much for it to be our favorite.
Thanks again for your effort. We appreciate it. :-)