Organic PsychiatryLogo Design Contest

#107
Anna, you didn't disappoint. My wife and I really appreciate the logo. It comes off as very professional and I love how you've brought the word "psychiatry" to life.

Some thoughts:
- The leaf on the O may take away from what you've done with the Y in psychiatry.
- Are there any other color combinations that you believe would be suitable to still properly market the image? The green goes very well with the black and there simply may not be a better fit.
- Finally, you've elevated the slogans that I've left (at least in my mind). Given that, I'm not sure the slogan would be crystal clear to everyone who may see it (That's the case for the slogans I've left as well or mine are simply too wordy). It wouldn't be accurate for it to suggest that I only used natural remedies.

Thank you again. Please let me know if you have any questions or if I can provide any further clarity.

#148 the leaf feels a bit foreign in its current placement. It might be more appropriate to go from the I to the C in it's current form?
- I think you're probably the one person that could pull this off as your image really brings psychiatry to life: The word psychiatry might just be able to get away with being a grey color & symbolize the Y-Person feeling alive.
I also do like how the word organic stands out more with the color shading from top to bottom.

I integrated the I and C in the word "organic". What do you think?

I think you give great constructive feedback, you really have a good sense of design!

Thank you for the opportunity!

Anna

Thank you Anna. It is a pleasure to work with you as well. Thank you for accepting my invite to work with me.

#151 #149
I think the integration of the I & the C goes a little to far. I feel that it really blunts the shape of the C and someone might mistake it for an 'e'

I'm not sure if I like the standard version of the font better or the bolder version, but the grey does clearly bring more color to the image (who would have thought it was possible for grey to do so?)

Also, did the color from #148 to #149 #151 change in terms of the shading with the word organic? If so I think I liked the earlier shading a bit better, it makes the letters sharper. This may also be as a result of the change from the black to the grey. My eyes could be playing tricks on me :)

Yes shading did change - sorry! Reverted to the older shading.

The leaf still feels most appropriate in #148 and #107. We don't necessarily have to use a leaf either.

In #159 the I feels out of place, seems weak or is being blown by the wind.

I think the word psychiatry has been elevated and as above brings emotion, showing a person coming out of the darkness and feeling energy. I would like to elevate the word organic somehow or possibly use a side symbol or logo. Please feel free to use your ingenuity. I'm sorry I'm not able to provide more direct feedback in respects to that.

Please let me know if you have any questions or if I can provide further clarity in anyway.

So I'm going to try to tie these ideas together best I can.

I liked what we had going with the Y as part of psychiatry. #223 shows even more life, and #221 exudes light. These have helped me put this vision together.

What if we were to do something like this:

__Organic
Psychiatry

(as you'd expect the _'s are intended to be place holders)
The Y would act as both the body of the person and be part of 'psychiatry' while the O head would be the O in organic. He/She could benefit from the smile and 2 eyes with the light of #221 above.

I think this would look even better with the psychiatry in grey as we had before.

Please let me know if you have any questions. It's hard to fully type out some of these thoughts.

you mean kind of like what I have done in #223? O in organic is actually meant to be the head with a smile! Sorry if it's not clear.

Yup exactly. It does come off as a head with a smile. I like that concept and where we're going with it. I think it could benefit from some eyes as well (please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).

I think incorporating the halo from #221 along with the greyness we had before and possibly straightening out the word organic would tie all these concepts together very nicely.

#244 Amazing. I think the smile on my face is wider from ear to ear than our character :)

If he/she was standing up more, it would connect just a little bit more with my target audience (20s-80yos)

Thank you! #250 is more upright and with shorter tail on the Y. Did you want the O upright as well? I thought his head tilted would be more expressive.

No not at all, the titled head does convey more expression and helps to fill the open & indented space.

The shorter tail helps quite a bit. Do you think it would look too rigid if the Y was even more upright?

Reviewed the images with my wife and she expresses it a bit better than I do: She'd like our Y-Character to be a bit more adult & human-like if somehow possible.

I had some ideas but again please feel free to expand upon that or go your own route:
- With the font we're currently using the Y seems to have a base which could act as feet going each direction
- The Y could also represent a buttoned collar or T-shirt, as if we weren't trying to make the Y an entire person.
- and while the face does an excellent job of conveying emotion, maybe the character looks too youthful?

Just some thoughts, please feel free to ask questions etc and you don't have to worry about dropping out of the top 5 (top tier as I've pictured it) no matter what direction you take them at this point. Sometimes you have to take a step back before moving several steps forward.

Profile within the O... but I still like the smiley face more. It makes me happy :)

If you would like I can try a huma siloette in the Y or in general. Thought you were more into abstract swoosh and leaf designs, but I can depart from that...

Anna,

I apologize for that. I originally came up with my contest posting at ~2 AM late Saturday night when on call. I did start off mentioning the leaf aspect of things but just about everyone around me suggested that I get away from that as its overly used in health or food marketing these days. I guess I was being a bit too simplistic and trendy.

I also must admit I didn't do that great of a job with the sliders. I wish they had examples at the extremes of each slider so there's a frame of reference. Then again that could be the doctor in me talking.

In addition it doesn't help the situation that I haven't been through a logo design process or even opened up my own business before :)

So through the discussions with my wife/brother/friends/mentor I've been able to see the importance of moving away from that. The thing I appreciate the very most about your logo (in addition to everything else that it adds), is that it really truly ties the 2 words together.

I just talked it over with a bunch of them again and I think we were onto something with the smiley face inside the O. My suggestion of adding the eyes is what really made the abstract person into more of an infant and I didn't even realize that until I spoke with them.

So here's what we came up with
- Let's try to back off using the eyes as I was clearly being too ambitious there
- Having the O-head more upright would help it represent more of an adult person
- The halo may benefit from being a brighter bolder color such as an orange which could double as not only radiance from the person but the sun?

What do you think?

I tried making an adult silo but it may look too contrived? I think a simple stylized "person" is better.

Would you like for me to do more of a sun in the background or this halo is better since it can be interpreted in multiple ways?

You are right, those items (leaves and swooshies) are used way too much in logos. So if you do decide to use them it has to be unique.

Let me know if you would like to see any other options.

Anna

If it's not too much trouble could I please see #281 with the original halo as well as a sun in the background (I'm having difficulty picturing that)

I agree with you that I like the abstract person a bit better. The adult silo in green doesn't look nearly as good.

I wanted to add that I trust your artistic ability. If you're feeling like something should be a certain way I'd love to be able to take a look at what you envision as well.

Thanks Anna,

Dave

Hi Dave,

In #286, smiley was too much, so the sun is shining through the person's head. What do you make of this?

OK, I better get to bed.

GN.

That sun overwhelms the image and takes away from the beauty of everything else.

Congrats, going into the next stage you're ranked number 1.

I should add that while I like #281 more, my wife likes #280 more as she thinks people will be able to take this more seriously. I think the abstract still looks better

Out of the current images I still like #281 #280 and #317 the best.

#280 revisiting this... I'm wondering if it would look any better/more integrated if the person was smaller

#286 I think the sun adds too much heat to this picture I don't know if the sun is appropriate to be used at all now that I've seen what it might look like. Only other thing I can think of is a faint yellow/orange orb behind the center of the image? That might be a little cheesy though

#317 The extra halo is growing on me but might be a bit much vs #281

#318 I have a hard time determining what the O really is in this picture and that makes it hard for me to like this over other designs #280 #281 #317

#365 Well I definitely wasn't expecting another completely unique design at this point in time but there are definitely somethings about it that really stand out to me.
- I love the slogan. Crisp, direct and to the point.
- The text looks great as well
- The icon I'm ambivalent about. I have a hard time getting beyond the green hair like projections. It almost looks like a medusa on some level. I think it wouldn't look this way with out the the hair.

#365 gives me another idea. What if we had the guy/gal in #280 sit down with crossed legs like the icon in #365, or you could even use the character from #365 sans the hair as a Y (This image may not even need the legs) as part of #317 or #281

Please let me know what your thoughts are. Thank you for the most recent entries.

Love #398.

#396 may benefit from the sun rays being the layer behind the character as they've overlapping with his/her head.

Love #444 but it feels as if the grey in #445 is darker. I'm not sure if that's a bolding of the text or the shade of grey. (In short I think #444 would benefit from having a darker grey)

Thanks, I made it lighter.

"darker"

Anna,

The absolute last thing I'd like to try is to see what #449 looks like a la #396 in the orange O. In #396 the thing I didn't like was the waves were layered above the head.

I'll be deciding from those 2.

Thank you again for everything. Do you do any web design work as well?

Feel free to PM me with that information.