We love your efforts and enthusiasm, Melinda! Your podium and design improvements are definitely improving the design. To get your designs even closer to what we have in mind, here are a few ideas:
* Switch to sans serif
* Go to a combination of colors to emphasize the difference between Lact and Speak
* Look at some of the higher ranked designs and see what they are doing for colors and font on the text. We would like a combination (not necessarily including all) of blues, greens, purples.
* We like an abstract look like the #2 ranked -- but want an abstract microphone or podium
* Feel free to think outside the box -- we love your creativity!