Home Server ShowLogo Design Contest

Logo Design Contest
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Home Server Show has selected their winning logo design.

For $300 they received 81 designs from 12 different designers from around the world.

Logo Design Brief

Client
United States
What We Do
This website is a podcast and blog mainly about the product: Windows Home Server.
Industry
Internet
Color Preferences
This is the current website: http://homeservershow.com/
This will be the new website: http://homeserverpodcast.com/

I want the logo to fit nicely in the colors represented in the new website. Green/Black/Blue/Grey Maybe a red as a minor color White is useable.
Our Ideas & Additional Information
I would like a logo that represents the home or a server or storage, with media streaming. I don't need the logo to have the text "home server show" in it. This blog and podcast is expanding and I don't want the logo to represent just the podcast. ie a hard drive with a microphone.
Items that could work in the logo. A house, hard drive, music stream, video stream/swooshes, etc. Please see the manufacturer links below.

The logo will go in the header of the new website: http://homeserverpodcast.com/

The current images for this wordpress theme header can be found at:
http://homeservershow.com/images/logo_blank.png
http://homeservershow.com/images/logo.png
http://homeservershow.com/images/header.png
http://homeservershow.com/images/header_blank.png

Hopefully this will show you what kind of room you have to work with. I think you should use the header_blank.png as your logo backdrop
If it's not possible to use these images I'll need a logo that works well within these header images. If you have any questions about them please message me.

If all else fails I'll open it up to podcast/blog type elements but i would like something to represent the whole idea of home storage/streaming/backups etc.

More links:
Here is the software manufacturer of the product i podcast about: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx

Here is a hardware manufacturer of a server i speak about often: http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/mediasmart-server/

There are good ideas on both of these sites with the streaming audio/video type logos they use.
Themes
Masculine

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Discussion

 
Client
I'm looking forward to your designs. I put a lot of info in the Contest Brief but if anything is confusing please send me a message. I may have made the contest too short. If so I will probably extend it so there is plenty of time for you.
15 years ago
 
Client
#8 I'm looking for more of a cartoon house look.
#2 and #7 although great logos, I don't look at them and think of my subject matter.
On this page, http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx
watch the top graphic cycle through.
Also, on this page: http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/mediasmart-server/ The music and photos that are streaming through the server are nice.

I also want the logo to stand on it's own without the need of "Home Server Show" text attached to it although I'm still open to have "Home Server Show.com" in the logo.

I like the house type logo. I wonder if you could create some cartoon looking server?

I think these submissions are a good start. Thank you for them.
15 years ago
 
Client
I'm sort of thinking outloud due to the low response of designs.

I wonder if it would be possible to make a logo out of the word "Home." Possibly rotate a large "H" about 45 degrees and do some cool stuff with the letters "ome." Then some swooshes around it with music note, photo, and video icons like in the sites I referenced above. Maybe even inside a server type structure like #14.
15 years ago
 
Logo Designer
server safe :)
15 years ago
 
Client
I'm liking the server looking designs. #53 has a good representation of the streaming swooshes I have been looking for. I like it's simple look.

I'm also looking for a design that can stand on it's own without the text attached. I need people to see the logo and think of the text. I don't mind the text attached though. The logo can always be changed later for print, etc.

The top four I have ranked have nice server designs and I like that you show different colors for the text. Great job everybody. I look forward to your continued ideas.
15 years ago
 
Client
After looking at these designs for a while some of the colors look "neon" to me. I like the flat color in #53. I'm thinking that using green might not look good with all the green I have in the site. http://homeserverpodcast.com/ is the reference site.
I am open to your color interpretation for the design. I still think a blue would stand out, perhaps a maroon like what is in the example logo on the site. The color list is in the brief and green was the first stated color so maybe that's why I see so much green! If you have thoughts on the colors PM me and I will listen. You are the professional.

I have recently ranked the designs so I hope that helps you see what I am liking better.

#59 and #59 have potential but i do like a design with the text better. Feel free to move the text around, rotate, etc.
15 years ago
 
Logo Designer
Thank you connexx for choosing me as your final designer. More power to your business!
-Chris
15 years ago
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