Hardcore EleganceLogo Design Contest

Hello! Here are some hints for getting the most out of your contest as it progresses:

~~ Rank designs daily -- this will encourage participation.
~~ Rank and re-rank a variety of designs to get a variety of new entries.
~~ Ranking gets your contest noticed! Unless your contest is Private, 1st place entries are posted to the portfolio page: https://logotournament.com/portfolio
~~ Ranking designs daily will also keep your contest from getting cluttered.
~~ The more feedback you provide, the better results you will see.
~~ Designers are not offended by "Not Interested".
~~ Over-use of "Not Interested" discourages participation.
~~ Ranking is a non-monetary means of showing appreciation for the Designers' hard work.
~~ Designers earn points for ranked designs. We like to earn points.

More detailed information on how to get the most out of your contest can be found here:
https://logotournament.com/forum/general_discussion/914

You can also look in: https://logotournament.com/forum/contest_holder_discussion .

Hardcore is one word, it does not have a capital "C" for the core. Designs 6-13 have C capital and two words, just so everyone knows.

Feel free to use other colors, these are the colors that first came to mind, but we want to really see creativity. We will rank the first time tomorrow at about 6 Pacific Standard Time. We would like to see more ideas before we rank for the first time.

Design #1- what is the background? It is hard for us to tell.

You guys are **** awesome, I can't wait to rate these. I just don't want to rate them to fast and then you work on ideas close to the #1. I want all the ideas to come first.

We love the black backgrounds that most of you are using, but we also need a version of the design on white, since Magazines etc, request the design on white as well. You can submit both ways since it will give us a good sense of what packaging, business cards etc. will look like with a black background which is what we plan on using. You guys are doing great.

1st ranking- just so you know the why's-

#1 we love the feel, we have given notes on how we think it can be improved.
#2 love that they went outside the box and used other colors and the shading is excellent. This does not mean that ultimately we won't come back to original colors but it's great to go out of the box. Colors are great if they are used in a way that is unexpected. We obviously are not a bugglegum company so color is more difficult, but if someone figures it out and uses it correctly then people are amazed by those designs.
#3.LOVE this, but we can't use skulls in our logo. Too many people are put off by them, and we want to show people from the beginning that we are not a skull company.
Love how they used our Tagline- Unleash your rock star.
#4- We loved that they tried to identify the company with a symbol, but that cross is not the symbol that we want to be identified with, but that was a very good try. If we can have a logo and symbol (look up hardcore Elegance.com and you will see the crest)
Perhaps use the crest of clean the clean the crest up.
#5 is beautiful, but please remember that the elegance is just as important as the hardcore. Hardcore by itself indicates Porn, so we want people to see the Elegance as soon as they see the Hardcore.

Other comments #11 very clever with the handbag.

This community of artists are truly remarkable.

Also please remember to try and come up with a symbol using the first couple letters, that is something that we really would love #15 and #16 did that, but it was a too hard to be able to distinguish that this was actually our letters for our company.

we need to see all the logos in white. I am not choosing them in white, they won't usually be my favorite but they are a necesity to see, so we are taking the white into consideration when we are ranking.

I love #5 but again in white we can't read Hardcore Elegance. Same problem we have now.

Make sure Hardcore Elegance can be read.

you guys are doing great

Just wanted everyone to know that #51 was moved up to #7 and it could be moved higher. We have other people in our company reviewing the logos, so these are not final at all. Even if your design is lower ranked it could be moved up, so don't take it down and be discouraged.

Everyone is doing great. It looks like it is still a wide open race, please keep coming up with your best.

One day to go. All the designs that are coming in now are looking similar. We are looking for something really differretn, we have a panther as a mascot maybe that will help. Please really use you creativity, some are very creative but others are just looking like variations of ones that are already up.