MyCareerIQ.netLogo Design Contest

Thanks for your submission. Clever use of the graduation cap. Eye-catching, memorable, and fits relatively well with my business concept. This said, I'm concerned that the concept of graduation will distract too much from "Career" and "IQ" (testing), which need to be the center of attention.

One of my advisors liked your submission the best. She said, "I'd like to see how #40 would look if the colors were reversed (MY being blue, IQ being blue, the cap, Career and net being orange) only because the lightness of the orange on white may cause readers to visually skip over the MY text, whereas if the MY were blue and CAREER was orange, it may change the reading pattern."

Thank you. New entries #59 and #61

Thanks! I'll send a message to my adviser to look.

Wow...changing the location of the grad cap makes a huge difference. Had long/good conversation with my adviser. We were tempted to just end the contest with yours as the winner. Others can put the tagline underneath like you did...but this seems to make a difference too. Great too, how the words "smart foundation" are under the word career.

We could probably make some of the other logos work, but only with some changes. Yours was the only one that we could feel good about with no changes. This said, since you're now the leader and about to be the only one that CAN make changes, it might be good to see a few other options that YOU think might be even better.

The grad cap, for example, COULD be seen more as an arrow. That's not all bad news, and WE both saw it as a grad cap.

Can't promise right now, but I am close to ending the contest early and picking yours.

Thank you! I think, its good. But I just moved this cap "arrow" a little bit higher, so its i dot anyway, but more connected with cap. Looks it better? Entry #66

Great suggestions. I like the cap in #67 better, but the tassel (dot) better in #66 because it is connect. Great suggestion...this is important.

Can you try the following?
1. move the tagline so "smart foundation" is perfectly centered under "Career"
2. try one like this with "smart foundation" in bold, and one not in bold
3. try one with the tagline in italics, and one not
4. outline the square part of the cap with a VERY thin blue line (all four edges of the part of the cap that
would face the sky when you were wearing it)

Thanks. A few new designs uploaded.

Great...thanks...many of these look good. Getting some input from others, and HOPE to decide on final combination of variables for you to put in one...and then end the contest.

Thank you :)

Thanks again. Four people I've gotten input from all like the grad cap, so we're getting down to the final changes. Great if you can do the following in one or a few:

FOR THE LOGO (not the tagline):
cap from 71
tassel from 70 (touching the cap and not sitting on the i)

FOR THE TAGLINE:
1. center "smart foundation" under "Career" like 70 (and all one color/blue)
2. make the font a little bigger (OK if it goes beyond the "t" in ".net" as long as the start of the tagline doesn't TOUCH the y in "My."
3. bold and unbold "smart foundation" (hard to tell in the current size font)
4. put the the entire tagline in italics...and not
5. put the first letter of each word of the tagline in caps, except the "f" in "for"

A lot of changes, but hopefully easy/small/fast...and we can decide quickly ;-).

Denzu, I am putting another designer in 1st place to give him a chance to submit changes, but I am expecting to switch you right back.

Everyone I show likes yours best, But the other designer worked so hard with so many variations of the light bulb, so I feel like I should give him the chance he asked for. So many of the changes he made were major, which is evidence that we just could not get the light bulb concept to work.

Thanks for understanding. If you can make the changes I last mentioned, we should be able to end the contest tomorrow (Wed USA time (east coast)).

I uploaded new variants: #72 #73 #74 #75

Thanks for making these changes. I'm getting some final input from my adviser on a few of the details, so should be able to let you know tomorrow.

I am leaning towards #74, but with the cap from #71 (but keep the tassel in #74).

Looking forward to wrapping this up early ;-).

New entry #82
A little bit more space between cap top and bottom.

Bingo...I think #82 is it! Just waiting on feedback from a key adviser.

Question: can you help me understand why the "i" and the "Q" are the sizes that they are? Some of the reasons are obvious, but I'd like to hear your thoughts. I don't dislike it...but I notice it, and want to make sure that these sizes are the best way to show.

"i" is longer now: #83

OK, if you can make the "i" just a TINY bit shorter so there is more space between the i and the tassel, you will be pronounced the winner ;-)!

Guessing we want the i to be half-way between the height in #83 and #74.

Thanks again...you've been great. This is an AWESOME design and does such a good job of accomplishing our objectives.

Thanks. Look at #84, there is "i" not soo short or not too long. Is it OK?