Ergates ConstructionLogo Design Contest

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Ergates Construction has selected their winning logo design.

For $675 they received 240 designs from 32 different designers from around the world.

Logo Design Brief

Client
United States
What We Do
Construction.
Industry
Construction
Color Preferences
Muted orange or dark yellow. Grey and/or black base color.

Sample color schemes:

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http://jiv.bz/fTY0
Our Ideas & Additional Information
Leaning towards a 'ranch' style logo but not overly Cowboy. By 'ranch', we mean arching lettering with an accompanying logo mark. The style/font of lettering should lean towards country and away from technology.

With the name of the company being "Ergates Construction", the logo mark will consist of the letters "EC" and should be somewhat independent and be able to stand on its own. Meaning, if we wanted to place the logo mark ("EC") on a hat, it would lend itself to this. Yet, when the overall logo sits together, it should do so seamlessly.

A key feature of the logo will be for us to use the logo in a couple formats:

1. The full logo displayed (i.e. on a car, building..etc)
2. Only the logo mark ("EC" in our case) as an independent graphic for shirts, hats..etc

To help you understand our desired layout, we've attached a very general layout that speaks to this. This file is not meant to guide the design, but to show how the elements should roughly be laid out. Designers should feel free to bring their own style and vision to this design.

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Discussion

 
Client
Hello. Thanks for the submissions. My first comment as a whole would be to clarify that the image that we attached to our description should only be referred to as a guideline. So the designs posted by rajareog are perhaps a bit too literal.

To be more precise, the text "ERGATES" does not need to have the curved line above and below it. These lines were submitted to show the curved path that the text might take.

That being said, we're still after a sort 'Ranch' style of logo we mentioned where the "ERGATES" can follow a curved path and the logo mark ("EC") should be able to stand on it's own. With this in mind, we think the first submission by Bole does a good job of creatig the EC as a stand alone element.
7 years ago
 
Client
Some general comments for everyone below.

We are leaning towards having the word "ERGATES" being the focus and at the Top of the logo. We would like the letters "EC" to pay a role in the logo and this would sit below the "ERGATES" text. The "EC" should have the ability to stand in its own if placed on a hat or shirt - independent of the other parts of the logo - but integrate seamlessly with the whole logo. The "EC" text should not overpower the rest of the logo. It should play a secondary role to the "ERGATES" text above it.

The overall style of the logo should feel like a "Ranch/Western" theme - not too much so that the logo feels overly 'Cowboy') but enough so that someone might identify with the logo being associated with someone who lives 'away' from the city. Less modern, not techy - leaning more towards the 'Country' and 'Ranch'.

The best way to explain what a ‘Ranch’ Style is would be to type in “Ranch Style Logos” into Google (images) and you will see a rough idea of a more western style that we are after versus a logo that leans towards a modern and tech-oriented feel. Perhaps by adding some additional design elements that brings this ‘Ranch’ style in.

Remember too that we need to have our Lic # within the logo. You can play a lesser role, smaller test, at bottom...etc.

Finally, it will be important that the logo works on both a light colored background (i.e. white) as well as a dark background (i.e. black).
7 years ago
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