Hearts and ScholarsLogo Design Contest

The annual Hearts and Scholars dinner event is an opportunity for donors and scholarship recipients to meet face-to-face and share their stories. It's a very heart warming event designed to say thank you to the donors that are supporting the future leaders of tomorrow.

Red and grey. Possibly blue

Overall I want this logo to evoke a strong emotion. It should be very simple in design and work nicely when used with Letter Press printing techniques (i.e. subtle use of color, typographic layout treatments, emboss/deboss)

In doing some research, here are a few things that caught my attention:

Use of the heart shape in the name:
http://www.heart.co.uk/london/

Simplicity and color of "Love Factory" logo:
http://www.logomoose.com/blog/16-heart-warming-logos/

The concept of two half hearts making wings is very interesting (think two heart halves turned backwards). This can symbolize that donors give students wings to succeed.

I also like the simplicity of a student (i.e. scholar) holding a heart.

I don't want to stifle your creativity, so I will leave it at that.

Good luck!