Hi Ian--
THANK YOU for your awesome design submissions and congratulations on #48 being ranked first place! We are still waiting for others on our team to share their feedback before we select a winner. However, we really love your design and hope you are willing to work with us to refine the design a little bit, which will help us to make our final decision on your logo. Here are a few changes that we'd like to see (basically a combination of several of your designs):
1. We'd like to ask you to adjust the size of the globe to be the size you have in #194.
2. We'd really like a slicker, more modern-looking globe. Could you play around with a few options? For example:
a. Create a metallic-looking globe that shines with a few continents--maybe all in greys (which would match the tagline)
b. Create a metallic-looking globe that shines with continents--maybe in alternative color schemes (like blue, orange, green, other color, but keep the globe one color with different shades of the same color like in #166, but more shiny)
3. Could you darken the grey color on the tagline "Make your career move"
4. We'd like to have the sphere looped through the "e" like it is in #185.
5. Change the font for "Career" to the font you used for "career" in #165
6. Slightly darken the orange in the word "Passport" so it is exactly the same as the orange in the sphere (maybe you already did this, but it doesn't seem to appear that way on my monitor).
7. We can't decide if we like the font for "Passport" like the one you used in #48 or the one in #165...maybe try both to see which one works better with the new "career" font? Could you add more shine to the letters...a bit more than you used in #165.
8. Is it possible to see the "C" in career as a lower case "c" and then stretch out the word "Passport" with the larger globe? (A few people are concerned that at first glance, someone might read the logo backward as "career passport"... not sure if this is a serious concern, but if you don't mind, it would be great to see just one word on top of the other.)
Lastly, I'm not sure how this process works now that the contest has ended. Do I just find your revised designs in the same portfolio or are they submitted somewhere else? If you could, would you please send me a private message when you post them so I can be sure to look at them immediately and get back to you with any other minor changes?
Again, many thanks, Ian. We are so happy with your work and we think you are very talented!!!
-Susan