Michael CavanaughLogo Design Contest

I'm starting to think that MAYBE a piano would be cool. Again something abstract or maybe just an outline of a piano. I guess I was just afraid of it being cheesy or tacky. I would like to see some with and some without. Still not sure which way I'll go. Thanks - MC

If you are thinking about including some sort of abstract piano, the lid should be closed. Open lid is too classical looking. Maybe it should be looking down on the piano. Not necessarily straight down. Still not sure if I'll use the piano but if I see a really cool one it is quite possible.

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Hi. I want to open this up a little more. If it gets your creativity going, go ahead and use a color in your design. Also, a tag line that we often use is "The New Voice of the American Rock and Roll Songbook". It may be cool to have that in the design as long as it is a layered document. As far as the piano goes, check out jimbrickman.com and look at the t-shirt to the right when you log on. It says BRICKMAN over a piano outline. It is kind of cool. If i were to go with a piano it would be something similar to that. Don't want to copy exactly though.

Here are some other examples of musician logos that I like.

timmcgraw.com, ericclapton.com, taylorswift.com

If I come up with more ideas I will post them
Thanks!
mc

Hi. New thought. I want to try to make more our of the M and the C. I'm thinking the M and the C could be larger fonts and then the "ichael" and the "avanaugh" be smaller and possibly different fonts. Maybe have the M and the C stacked on each other. Maybe the C a little further in to the right.

If you look at #5 I like how the "avanaugh" is smaller than the C and starts kind of inside of the C.