City of Richmond Sustainability OfficeLogo Design Contest

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Thank you all for the great work. A few comments to hopefully spark some additional creativity.
The logo is not actually for the Office, so the taglines are not needed, we are more interested in the icon at this point. Would like to see some integration of other colors besides blue and green at this point- or maybe some variation on the shades of green and blue. Interested as well in non-buliding type of logos. This is looking at lot like the West Palm Beach logo that was recently designed on this site. Would be curious to see something with the earth or natural resources in general. Also interested in designs with three distinct features representing the environmental, social, and economic components!
Thank you!

WE REALLY WANT TO SEE SOMETHING WITHOUT BUILDINGS, PLEASE! See my previous note. We would like something more abstract. Please see the additional examples attached and the links below for new ideas:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/planyc2030/html/home/home.shtml
http://www.phila.gov/green/greenworks/
http://www.chicagoclimateaction.org/

This logo is for the City of Richmond Sustainability Plan (NOT THE OFFICE). We have not yet finalized the name for the plan, but are trying to do so asap. We definitely like the plan logos that feature multiple icons. Here are additional links to logos we like with icons.

http://www.miamidade.gov/greenprint/
http://www.rockvillemd.gov/environment/sustainability

Here is some more information on the City of Richmond.

http://www.rvacreates.com/overview.php

WE REALLY LIKE THE ICONS! Can we see more of those?? Please consider icons for the following categories: Economic Development; Energy (possible icon= compact fluorescent light bulb); Environment; Open Space and Land Use (possible icon= tree, leaf); and Transportation (possible icon= bike; people walking; carpool). Also for the name of the plan please work off of the RVA concept (see previous concept)- possible examples are

RVA Green
Green RVA
Plan RVA
Envision RVA
Imagine RVA

Thanks!
Kim

Please show the following two titles with each new logo:

Envision RVA
&
RVA: Better
A Roadmap to Sustainability

Admin Note: Contest Extended. Client got many designs at last minute and needs time to go through them. Feel free to submit more if you want.

All- really great work! We are definitely getting closer!! Can we see more swooshes, like in #1, 20, and 42 and how about taking a stab at all five icons as mentioned in comment above. Also any suggestions for a replacement word for Better?? We are looking for an action verb that means better...

Still want to see Envision RVA as well.
Thank you!!

All- really great work! The swoosh must be included in the logo- preferably under the RVA. And we would still like to see something with the five icons for Economic Development; Energy; Environment; Open Space and Land Use; and Transportation.
Thanks!

Ok- we are really getting there now. We have also narrowed down our names for the Plan to our top two:

Envision RVA (with the tagline A Roadmap to Sustainability)
and
RVA Green (with the tagline A Roadmap to Sustainability)

Please continue with the five icons and use those two names. We must keep the RVA portion of the logo consistent with the font and style of the RVA that you can find here at www.rvacreates.com. This is an open source so any of you can use it.

Finally the favorite icon ideas are:

Energy- lightbulb or sun or solar panels
Environment- recycling arrows, ideally the arrows are made of water or just something representing water like a rain drop
Economic Development- (we know this is a tough one) the bar graphs with the arrow heading up works. We do not have any other suggestions, though are open to them!
Open Space and Land Use- We prefer a tree to a leaf
Transportation- love the transit train, the bike, and an active person

Thank you all! We are very excited and impressed with the work you are producing!

REALLY GREAT WORK EVERYONE! This is getting harder and harder to rank you all!

One last idea- same logo, but title = enRichmond (Enrich Richmond- but combining them, you will need to make it clear that the rich belongs in both words) Thanks!

As we are coming to a close I want to thank you all for participating- you are all very talented! This will be a tough decision!