Thank you for your designs! We had a look at all the designs with the board of the programme today and here are some comments with which we hope you'll continue designing.
They liked the colours of your designs and the idea of #59 that has several species in the illustration. Would it be possible to edit it so that there were only three species or so in the illustration to make it a bit simpler? Also, there were species like a parrot and a dolphin in the illustration that we don't have in Finland. If possible it would be nice to see species you'd find in northern Europe (bear, lynx, owls, deer, moose, salmon just to name a few).
Also, the board decided that they did not want the Finnish version of the name in the logo after all so that can be left out.
For the font they wished for something that had more modern feeling to it and was a bit rounder.
I'm typing this with my phone and cannot rank the designs until after an hour or so. Just wanted to tell you that of theses new ideas #73 is the best. Could you try a mirror image of the round illustration so that the animals face right instead of left?
And for the font of LUOVA something a bit not-so-common (not Arial or the like as they are so usual).
Now I was able to rank the designs. #73 was the best of them, thank you! I talked with my boss and she wondered if the round symbol should be clarified a little to make it a bit more simple. Maybe the slamon could be left out so that the other species were easier to see?
And if you think it would be even better to have just three species then the bear can be dropped as well and leave only the lynx, flying squirrel and the owl.
I talked with the head of the programme and she too liked this new version a lot! She would like to see a version where LUOVA is written in the darker brown colour you have on the illustration. And could you do two versions where the long name is in green and another one where it is in lighter brown?
And, could you swap the squirrel to a leaf of a tree or something else that would represent the plants? I'll put some examples of Finnish plants here for you. Maybe one of them would work.
Hmm, perhaps the illustration without the leaf is better after all... The colours in #90 are very nice! But could you try to draw the eyes of the owl a little bit different so that they'd be more natural? The lynx has a very real-like face but the eyes of the owl are so round that people will just see the owl and miss the lynx altogether. If the owl's eyes were more real it would be better in line with the other two.
#103 and #104 are very nice too but perhaps the maple leaf makes one think of Canada after all. I realize it now that I see it...
And the font, sorry to keep coming back to that. The font on #90 is otherwise OK but could you try something that was a bit wider? I mean something where the letters were not as narrow as they are now.
Thank you very much for participating in our contest and sending us all your great designs! Especially thank you for replying so fast to my comments and sending new ideas so quickly! It has been very nice working with you. After a long discussion the board decided to place your designs on ranks three and four.