(#153, #154, #155, #156, #157, #158, #159, #160, #161)
Hello, thank you for your submissions and sorry for the late feedback.
We appreciate the variety of ideas you've presented us. Our biggest problem with these designs is that both the icon and the text look too artificial and computer-generated. We are looking for photorealistic icons with precision elements, subtle nuances, and natural lighting. Also, many of your icons look like the letter Q, and we are very much trying to avoid letterform logos.
#158 and #159 are probably the best of these. In #159, we could potentially see a realistic, metallic (silver) gear that's slowly turning while it's being assembled by the blue squares. Maybe that portion of the gear is starting to become blue (because it's being assembled by the squares), or there is some other sort of transformation occurring. Maybe some similar concept for #158.
Give those ideas a try, but we also look forward to seeing new concepts as well. Thank you!