Thanks for submitting. Can you develop something a little more along the lines of what kassai has done for the final. We have drifted into the feminine a bit too far and need to real it back over. I looked at your work. Can you get a more modern, block looking font and try that - I like the one I chose but I like what Kassai is going better right now and I think you can do it well. Go ahead with the two color.
Please look for an updated notes and brief within 2 hours of the end of the initial contest. You are a qualifier. Congratulations! We love your work. This has been a learning process for us. Thank you for staying through out lack of clarity. We will publish notes for all of our finalists by 11:30 Mountain time in the USA. Thank you. In the meantime, please review our website at oceanocommunity.com to become very familiar with our business. Thank you. Our Team.
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Clarity for you. 1. We want a Word Mark that we can use in one color if we need to which still looks great. 2. We need a format which in some way - will fit into a square well, for Twitter and other applications so a recognizable Pictorial Mark is likely a good way to fit that format. 3. We want lower case letters. Oceano is a masculine word in Spanish and we feel it is neutralized a little by using lower case. 4. There is symmetry to the the word "oceano" in lower case. In fact we have an "o" on each end and the "e" and the "a" in the middle can be the same letter flipped. It is like a backwards 69, so of course we love that! Please utilize it - (it doesn't have to look like a 69 - just having fun) . 5. We like "ocean" in a more compressed or neutral form. Not elongated - at times - we may use the Word Mark on it's own without the Pictorial Mark. If you have a space at the bottom of the Pictorial Mark where we could later, insert the Word Mark, that would be helpful. In this case, that would most likely be the ocean as we would like you to use a wave image in your Pictorial Mark. Medium to thin letters seem to be working best for us. 6. Most of the time we will use the Pictorial Mark and the Word Mark together. In some cases, like twitter, we may use just the Pictorial Mark. In other cases like stenciling the name on property items or gates, we may use just the Word Mark. 7. We gave you the elements: Wave, Lotus, Surfer, Yoga/Meditaion/Happy person pose. None of them have to be obvious and maybe you don't use all of them. A nice looking wave or a barreling wave, tells surfers that we have good waves - the image may not need a surfer in it, but we are also not against that. 8. Multi-color designs are good but imagine that if the logo is on a black and white printer, that it also works that way as well. Make it flexible. Ideally we will stay with either just blue, just white, just blue and green, just blue and gold.
8 is a lucky number so let's stop there! Please ask questions if you need more direction. Some of you we would like to see start over or make an addition. Others are already close.
Thank you and good luck! We will stay as available as possible to give you feedback.
#61 We think you were closer with this one earlier on than with your new try. The font is better and the design is uplifting and calm. We like this design. We also like the font on number 62. I'm wondering what else you can do with the graphic to create a great lettermark for us? Thank You.
Hi, I think I may have misunderstand your first feedback when you mentioned about wanting a more "..modern, block looking font.." with reference to another designer's font :)
Anyway, my design is out of the top 5 now and I cannot submit anything since I'm out of the game. Hope you get a nice one and I appreciate having to work on this contest.
Dude - your design is number 1 with my partner - please get it back in. YOu are number 1 in the game with him. The only reason we left your logo down low was because we were looking for more variety. You have to be smart enough to know that until the final - the rankings might be so in order to encourage the designers for more. Come one. You are blowing it.
Man, you really blew it. You know, people like us pay good money to take these contest to the end, we have strategies in place. You made a bad assumption and screwed us and yourself. You were not at all out of the top 5. We didn't even still have 5 people still competing. I am disappointed right now because now I have to make one of these others work and yours was either number 1 or number 2 depending on who you talk to here. I've got like 18 hours of my time into this and you just bailed out. I am a little pissed off.