Newbold HouseLogo Design Contest

The Home of Natural Wellbeing

A beautiful and transformative retreat and education centre, supporting the wellbeing of people, communites and land, while striving toward sustainability.

Other Info:We were thinking along the lines of a mostly black and white line drawing type of logo with some small colour elements to stand out e.g. flower, leaf. Open to more colours though, particularly those evocative of the Arts & Crafts movement, nature, wellbeing/health/relaxation and Scotland (e.g. purple heather, green leaves, blue/grey sea)

The house is very much in line with the Arts and Crafts movement and retains many original features. Please refer to our PinTrest site for inspiration of the types of pictures, logos etc we like. One of the most important thing for us is to use some of the elements from around the house e.g. the carved wall flowers, or the thistle and rose used on the front of the house and the conservatory. There are photos on the Pintrest site to show you these elements. We would also like to indicate the wildlife which frequents our grounds e.g. by including a small squirrel (red not grey), roe deer or song bird. As the house has been a personal and spiritual development centre for many years and has a reputation for being transformative and slightly magical, it would be great for this to be reflected in the logo if possible. This could be through incorporating an Arts and Craft style fairy or other fantasy element. I am aware that its probably not possible to have flowers, wildlife and fairies .. but some of these would be great. William Morris is a great example of the kind of designs we like. Here is a link to our Pintrest site http://pinterest.com/newboldhouse/redesign-brand-inspiration/. We particularly like the idea of a Wordmark using an Arts and Crafts syle font - embroidered with vegetation and wildlife. However we would also consider an emblem which incorporates nature and this type of Vintage/Victorian/Arts & Crafts style. There are loads of good images online if you Google Arts & Crafts movement. Thank you and looking forward to seeing some designs :)