PlaygrindLogo Design Contest

Thanks you for your interest in my contest. I do like the current samples I submitted but feel they are lacking something and could be made to look more professional. I like the Impact font because it is thick and tight but am open to other similar styled fonts. But honestly, I think if someone were to tweek the "headerbg4.jpg" example I had posted I would probably be very happy with that. I think it just needs that "something" that I don't know how to explain to style it up a notch.

I like the look of the impact font with all lower case letters except the "G". I like the orange box around the "p" as well. I also like the look of "BEAT MARKET" in an upper case outline type font. I would love to see more takes on this example design giving it light, depth, texture, or whatever your creative mind sees fitting. The #20 entry is closing in on that look, but in addition to being clean it could be a little raw or gritty, maybe with some very minor stylizing to the "Grind" but still keeping in with the general font look.

Unless someone else came up with an entirely new design that really caught my eye which I'm hoping someone will have a flash of creativity that will produce something I may not have thought of as well which would be interesting. So far I am impressed with the handful of designs submitted. I would prefer a more horizontal logo than a vertical one if that makes sense. Much like the current top rated ones, that will fit into a rectangular web space much cleaner. Thank you very much!