Congratulations!!! As one of the top 5 designers, you have still time to re-submit your entries. Since we received more than 180 entries in the initial phase, it may take by tomorrow morning to rank below top 5 entries by order. Before the completion of reshuffling, please find the following instruction for your further modification:
1) Don't be a copy cat As you can see, each of the top 5 designers (so far, denzu, grafixsphere, Peter, amitdesigner, and Bramovic) delivered very unique and different concepts. We really appreciate your excellent sense and interpretation. Rather than looking at other designers' concepts and ranking, you had better listen to your power of imagination as well as our individual contact (if necessary).
2) We appreciate your brief explanation We love your designs. At the same time, however, we would like to hear meaning/concept behind the designs. Better explanation makes definitely your ranking higher.
3) Variation We need a variety of font styles and color combination. For your reference, please read the additional information below: Our target customers are mass affluent business professionals such as investment bankers, management consultants, globe trotters working for multinational companies etc. We would like to provide them out-of-the-box thinking opportunities while they are usually regarded as intellectual snobs :b They do not value web 2.0-ish or ubiquitous concept because they need something exclusive (i.e. extraordinary service for qualified members only).
Should you have any questions or inquiries for feedback, please do not hesitate to contact us anytime.
The lines are in ascending indicate aiming the goal to your achievement. As per your Investment study than the bar in the logo indicates that students are migrating towards there career from one place to Another. Than for Job switch than the Circle with the bars indicates the world switching to the new Opportunities and can start a new Life. And the Third thing you described can even match up with the logo. It is not too much Official but can look a like as a Cultural Events and Organizations.
Thank you for your additional entries. For better communication with you, we screened out some of them and ranked the rest by order.
So far, #195 is the best one because the orange accent color against darker gray makes the logo very sharp and smart. You changed the font style as well. You took in the right direction we desire (i.e. better fit with the image of logo).
Gradation color like in #192, #193, and #194 seemingly has something special meaning - we guess it implies step-by-step career progress. However, we would like to limit the maximum number of colors, believing that simple is the best.
After receiving more entries from other top 5 designers, we may reshuffle the ranking. Please be patient for a while.