Hi.... Here are my submissions #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9,#10.... Hopefully pleased. Please feel free to contact me for any requests. And please let me know if you need any changes on my entries. Thank you! Best Regards,
Thank you for your entries. You've added some creative touches to my existing design, which I like better than the one I have, but I'm also looking for something original if you have some other ideas. Think about company performance, financial performance, etc. I do like the idea of the name itself - including font style - to be the logo...and want something on the logo (like the O) to stand out as a recognizable icon that I can use for various purposes. Of the ones you've submitted, I like 10 and 9 best.
Here's my updates #38, #39 for new font style... and #47, #48, #49,#50, #51 for new other icon.... Please let me know if you would like to see any further revisions... Thanks!
Thank you for these submissions. I really like the sphere with arrows and will rank it. I would like the sphere to be more the size of the letters in the rest of the name so that it is more clear that it is both a sphere and the O in "OUTPERFORM." Also, you may try one option with capital letters instead of small letters. I do like the "utperform" to be all one color, so no need to submit further different colors there. They can be all black or all grey or some other color, but just keep them the same. I want "LLC" in the logo somewhere in all cases, so keep LLC in. Finally, with respect to font, you can resubmit versions of the ones I'm ranking (and any new ideas) with fonts that are more ROUNDED instead of pointy. I like the rounded font styles. Thanks again for your creativity and work.
I like entry 58 and have ranked it. I will have a closer look later and let you know if I want any other version of it - fonts, etc. Thank you. Good creativity!
I really like the creativity so keep them coming. You have given me several options. I'm going to discard 69 and 70 because I feel like they look like a shark attacking. Ha! I'll keep and rank 68 though, since the colors make it look more like things in motion than animals feeding. I like it, so I'll let you know if I want any other versions as I narrow my choices over the next days.
Thank you again. Your ideas have been the most creative and diverse so far. I like 68 and 71 and have ranked them as well. I will follow up as I narrow my preferences to let you know if I want variations on those I've ranked. In the meantime, certainly contribute any new ideas you have. I'm trying to respond to designers ASAP to keep things moving and trying to keep my rankings narrowed to a top 10.
I do like the design of 68, but feel as if it looks like a ball rolling over and flattening a man out of control. Thus, I will discard it for now. If there's another variation of this idea you have, I'd love to see it. Thank you.
Hi, and thanks again for all of your work and excellent, creative ideas. I like certain elements of all of these - 90-94, so I will save and rank them and maybe weed out one or two along the way. I have four of your entries ranked highly at this point and will include these in the mix.
I'll recommend three things:
Search for a font on the "utperform" that is more "rounded," for lack of a better term. Maybe I can give you an idea or two in another message.
Try to incorporate a thin pin-stripe line under the "utperform" between the company name and the tagline.
Finally, if you have some idea that is completely different, please submit that as well.
Thank you for the extra work. I have decided that I like the font you used for 90 and 91 better than the options in 152-155, so I will discard these. Actually, I like the 90/91 font very well compared to others I've seen, so I don't think you need to do more work on fonts at this point, unless you have something you feel is a cool idea and works. I am working this AM on dropping the list of keepers down to something manageable and re-ranking them. Thank you again.
Okay... Thanks for your appreciation to my works... Please let me know if you would like to see any other ideas... I will come up with next updates with new ideas... Did you really want an icon separate from the text ? (like as you rank on top first) Thanks!
I saw your revisions. I prefer the straight letters over italics, so deleted one. I like the extension of the tagline to under the LLC, so I kept that one and discarded the previous one.
#92 is still my favorite of your entries with that design. I will discard 203, 204 and 207, but keep 92. I will ask that you revise #92 to extend the tagline to a point beyond the LLC and rotate the LLC such that it is written vertically beside the m instead of horizontally, Thank you.
On both 280 and 209, can you make the "LLC" a little less bold looking? Also, on both designs, can you add one of those "swoosh" emphasis lines under the words "should be" of the tagline?
Thanks! 284 and 285 are great. I have ranked them and removed the previous versions. Can you edit them both, though, and make the LLC less bold-faced? If you can't make the LLC less bold-faced, perhaps you can just change it to a grey or something. I want the LLC letters there, but I don't want them to stand out as much as the company name. That should do it. Thank you.
Hi, I like your two designs and am staying with both of them for now as top designs and will see if I can narrow the field to two soon and work with just a couple of options. I need to give the top 4-5 I still have in the running some thought and wait on a couple of other designers to submit improvements I've requested. I'll leave yours ranked at this point and let you know when I have a decision point. The only thing I might ask of yours is to make a revision on both where the "LLC" is not as bold-faced.
Thank you very much. Yours are solid, creatively simple designs that communicate what I want about the company.
Hi again. I've consistently ranked #301 higher because I can't help but wonder if others will see the icon in #302 as the O in "outperform" or not. They may think the company name is "utperform." I don't know. Can you redesign #302 and put the icon in the middle of the word as the second O and see if that works?
I appreciate the updates/revisions you submitted today. I'm not making any further design-specific comments to anyone right now (primarily due to lack of time), but am just sending this message to all as an update.
I have narrowed my favorites to five designs by four designers. On each of the designs, there are likely minor tweaks to get them exactly as I want, but they are close enough for me to pause for a bit, consult others as needed, and spend some time figuring out how to further narrow the options.
As for now, they are ranked top to bottom as my wife likes them. Ha! I value her opinion, so I wanted to start there, but, in the end, it's my decision. I believe my contest ends the Top 5 phase early afternoon EST on Sunday, FEB 9 and goes to the Judging phase. I plan to give some serious thought to each design and then to decision making, so I may not give much feedback or ask for much more for a bit until I'm deciding things.
In the meantime, feel free to submit any other comments or ideas that you may have and I will consider them.
I like your additional offering of #313, but my wife and I both like #312 better, so that's the keeper. The colors of one of the designers make the icon fit best in the front, while I think the colors of your icon make it look better in the middle.
On entry #301 can you make the following edits to the tagline and the "LLC"...
I've decided I like the "LLC" in black font, so please make the "LLC" black font, not bolded. Change the tagline and swoosh emphasis line to black font as well. Italicize the tagline and do not bold it. Use a period at the end of the tagline, not an exclamation point.
Dear Austin, Sorry... I can't submit again because your contest is in judging phase.... Just FYI that only first ranked designer can submit any updates designs. If you really need me to submit any updates, you can move the ranking... After I submitted you can re-arrange the ranking again... Thanks!
I've had a couple of busy days and am on other projects. I've put #301 in the first spot so you can make your edits. I personally like #301 at least equally to another one or two, and I've polled a few friends and they rank yours highest, so it's a strong contender. I'll leave it there for you now for a while to work on edits. Thank you again.
Thank you. Also, if you can find a color for the O icon that is a bit more "gold" than yellow, I would like to see it. The other designs are using a gold, and I prefer it...and I've really just about narrowed it to two designs and looking at yours in a gold tone may make a big difference. Thanks!
Use the font on "utperform" that you used in #301. Make the emphasis swoosh under the tagline to go only under the word "should"
Resubmit two versions with the above changes - [1] one that has the current "yellow" color in the icon and swoosh, and one that has a more "gold-toned" color in the icon and swoosh.
That should be all. I'll leave you ranked #1 long enough to get that done, but then will move to one other designer for a final edit before I decide. Thank you again.
I'm putting your #326 back in first place for another edit.
Make the swoosh emphasis line black in color. Make the swoosh line smaller, so it goes only under the word "should." Change the font used for the company name to the same one you used for #301.