Max, I have numerous comments for you in the main content page's comments area. This is my first time using this site and I didn't realize I was supposed to comment individually on a design or designs from a particular designer by clicking on the design image in question. I like the design, but please see my comments for some other possible ideas of variations I'd like to see. Thanks!
#119 - 122: I really like the bright hot red color used in the latest icons/designs and I like both of the new icons you created.
I was wondering if you could to a couple mods where the new hot red color is tied into the text. Maybe a dot or detached bar within the 'A', or make the E that color as you did on the non-icon designs.
I also like that you surrounded the slogan within [ brackets ] and prefer the version that has the cool leading 'E'.
Maybe the brackets could also be the hot red color (possibly as a replacement for using that color within the text, if it's just too much when you try doing both.)
Both of the new icons are great. Hard to decide between them. I ended up pushing a number of your designs down in the rankings just to give others a chance and not lock up the entire top 10 with different variations of your designs, so don't take the ranking numbers literally. Some version of your designs are currently #1 - just not sure which yet.
#162 - Thanks for the various revisions and your hard work. Could you please try a couple more.
1) Let's try getting rid of the brackets on the tagline and instead make it italicized and moved to the right of the 'E' (still below it, but shifted right a little)
2) Let's see what #162 looks like if we combine the '-' that's above and below the 'E' in #117. Maybe try a version with gray bars and one that uses the dark purple color above/below the bright red E.
3) After creating a version with the above two changes, can you create one that has a slightly different 'C' icon? I like the current one, but my business partner thinks that it looks a little too old-school calculator LCD display like. While I think that the other 'C' in #123 looks a little too much like a traditional bank's or some such company's logo.
These look great - thanks so much for all the variants on the design that you knew I was leaning toward.
One thing I'm sure of - I don't want any gray text used in the slogan text (or bars above/below the E.) Please continue to use the dark purple.
Can you try a couple additional tiny alterations?
#190, #193, and #189 - Create a version that has the purple and italicized slogan text just as you have it in #184 (including alignment)?
#187 - Can you create a version that applies the same slogan change asked for above, but where it is pushed to the side of (not under) the 5-bars E? Also, please apply the icon from #190 for this new version. I realize that with the slogan having to fit to the right of the E, it may have to be a little bit smaller font - that's fine. Thanks!