We really do love the cleanness of the designs that you have sent through!
We also love the concept of the cocktail glass being the "Y" for Yo and the olive as the "O" in YO but It is still a little difficult to read, I think it is because there are two design elements.
If you are able to, could you possibly try different options around this with different stylised cocktail glasses. In terms of the glass, it would be great if the cocktail glass can later become the icon for our mobile app.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Hello Mr. Kuhnster, Thank you for your feedback, glad you like my works, I will try to find out your requests, but for now i have more tweaks about my first entries, please check: #30 #31
We really like where you are going with your logos. Your designs are really strong. We love the disco ball and would love to see other ideas that could represent a bar.
On a side note, we were wondering if you are open to taking a chance and willing to test an icon approach that is very different. While we do want a very clean logo that can work on different backgrounds and in different contexts, our end goal is to produce an icon that could also work or be taken further into an iPone app icon.
We have been going through www.dribbble.com and have spotted a number of cool app icon ideas but I am not sure if you have the time to test something like this for us, while keeping the text for YoBar clean:
We are loving your designs. There is something really interesting with the mirror ball that you created. I love the detail of that element - it's entrancing.
Only weakness is that is some of the guys in the office are saying that the mirror ball gives more of a feeling of a club than a bar. Is there any other iconography that you have looked at that focuses on people rather than the glass e.g. faces/activity/vibe etc.
Hello again Mr. Kuhnster, Thank you for keep giving me feedback, i will try another icon and upload them once i get it done. also will try to give more detail for the glass. the samples are good
We want to create a feel of a great night out and don't want it to feel to unapproachable or too fancy. We are happy for it also to be simple and playful. We are looking for different styles.
We ideally want the focus to be on the people and how they feel and interact eg. Shoutouts, chats, vibe, music, lighting, laughing and meeting!
It might be interesting to see what we can also do with the "Yo".
We were thinking that either we make a really cool icon that essentially will be the logo and complement it with a more simple Yobar text or stylise one color wording as the logo. Also see our attachment and our comments.
Let us know if you have any questions. If you want to speak on Skype, we are available.
Hello again Mr. Kuhnster, Thank you for more guidance, i am still thinking about new icons, i will come up with new ones once i get it:) Best Regards Medi
Thank you for all of your time and all of your fantastic designs. We greatly appreciate it.
We were about to enter the second phase of the contest but I have been advised from a design colleague of mine to ask the current contestants to explore a few other ideas and extend the contest for another 24 hours due to the weekend. It seems that virtually everyone has followed our original designs idea of the Cocktail Glass. However this has not given us a good the spread of creative ideas that were hoping for from the brief.
If you are open to it, we would greatly appreciate an option other than the cocktail glass. Ideally, we would like Black and White (not grey scale) design as we need this will give us the flexibility that we require when tweaking the design.
Hi Mr. Rodney, Thanks for this message, i am still open and searching for other icon than a cocktail glass, it's a bit hard to find icon that represent a bar but not a club:D, but i am still working on it.
A big Congats! You easily made it into our Top 5!! We hope that you are as excited as we are about working together.
Being that we have a short amount of time to work with you during this last phase, we just wanted to share some of our thoughts of what seem to be working best from the designs that we received. We have physically posted up all the designs we have received on a big wall and have asked quite a number of people in the team what they like and don't like.
This doesn't mean you need to agree with the feedback as we still don't want to limit your thinking.
In terms of your logo's, I know we have given you a lot of feedback already. We do feel that #27 is the strongest of your options and we like the font. In general we like the icon to the left of the YoBar text but would like to see other versions of this icon (possibly slightly stronger cocktail glass and possibly without the top lip).
We would like to also see any other icons other than the cocktail glass, something neat and distinctive even if it is outside the Bar theme.
In general, here are some of their thoughts on the other logos. They were overwhelmed by the creativity of everyone. It seems like most of the people that we surveyed like the YoBar/Yobar in clear simple text. Some like the text in two colours and some liked it in one colour but all thought the text needed to be clear and readable as one word and not broken up with icon's etc. Also, many of the people thought that they text should not either be too formal but thought that it should be recognisable as a word and that we should try out more fonts and tweak the text to make it feel distinctive (so it should have distinctive but clean feel).
There was a big debate about using the cocktail glass. While everyone loves the idea of cocktails, there where strong and different feelings of whether the cocktail glass makes the service look too specific to a certain users taste and a little too female orientated and a bit pretentious. This is not to say people didn't love the cocktail icons.
From what came out, is that the icon and the logo need to complement each other but should be separate element. It seems that most of the people thought that the icon should be able to be used independently of the Yobar logo and should be able to work neatly together and the height of the icons/imagery should be only a small amount bigger than the text so that it could be neatly represented on one line.
In terms of the icon, the people surveyed like the concept of the cocktail, speech bubble, the Yo and something that can be interpreted as people chatting and having a great time (as this is a meeting environment with a lot of game elements). Also if you can do that logo so that it works in a 1 or 2 colours, that seems to get the best feedback.
If you have any questions or if you want to do a Skype call, I am available (ID: rodneykuhn). My time zone is GMT +2 so I am available any time day or night (assuming I am not sleeping).
Hello again Mr. Rodney and Mybeat.net team, I made some variants for #27, please check : #196 #197 #198 and still open for more revisions. I guess the cocktail glass is the most match icon for yobar, i still cannot find a one simple icon for this, the speech bubble also good but i think it's overused for a social media website.
Our only concern if that the icon that you are using is a little to dainty and a little unapproachable (i.e. it looks like it represents quite a fancy bar). Our original design that we found off another iPhone app is attached (http://www.flickr.com/photos/81712009@N04/8141271640), which feels like a stronger icon and has more legs in it as it is not too fancy.
What do you think of it? How do you think we can get this closer to where we want it to be?
We really think you are in the best position to win this contest. We however are not totally happy with the other submissions.
My team is asking me to focus on coming up with a distinctive logo (i.e. YoBar in a font that looks distinctive) i.e. we really want a custom font / logo that is distinctive (without the icon). We are not sure how the contest works but would you be happy to assist us with an option that focusses on the font. If you do want to bring the speech bubble into the font, we would like that too.
Hello again Rodney and Mybeat team, Your contest is currently on Judging mode, only 1st rank designer in your contest can update their entries, you can change each designer you like to be 1st rank to make some revisions during this mode, or you can ask the admin for 1 or 2 days extension in Top 5 mode, that way you can asked revisions for 5 designers at once
Apologies on the delay on getting back to you for this contest - I have been travelling on business.
At this point you will likely be the winner!! of our contest and we will be confirming this tomorrow. Unfortunately we love all of your designs and are not sure which option we like the best as a complete logo. We like the text from #58 and we think we like the icon #198 and icon #66. Regarding #198, we would probably prefer a flat base rather than a triangular one and were also wondering if you could increase the weight of the lines to make it a stronger icon. In terms of #66, we were wondering if you could give us two options a. one as is and b. one with a splash of colour in the liquid in the glass.
In terms of wrapping up this contest, would you be open to giving us all of your working files in a final format in case we want to tweak it on our side.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Without going through further refinements and wasting more of your time, would you be able to prepare final working files #231 #232 #233 #58 #198 and icon #66 so that we can tweak it ourselves?