ShiftersLogo Design Contest

Thanks biink! The #8 is good, but perhaps a bit too common. Also perhaps too sporty I think. And I'm not sure of the arrows - feels perhaps a bit too obvious. Like that you used some strong colors! The over-all feeling is good. You are obviously a talented designer.

Focus on finding a good logo symbol. Doing too much with the text logo will make it hard to translate.

I love what you did for 5th Dimension Concepts, Inc. & Gnomish Systems

thanks for the fantastic feedback. I will get to work on some further concepts for you based on this.

Thanks for the update. #33 I liked the logo font ans softness better in #8 but tge symbol in #33 is a bit better .I liked the transparency and the 3d-feeling in #8.
I would not mind some 3D-stuff and the use of gradients / transparency.

Overall, I would rate it 5/10 stars.

great direction. I was going to ask if you wanted to head in that direction so this will help immensely. Have some more to you soon.

Thanks for the update. #56: The text logo feels modern in style, and I like the idea of something like a black square turning into a pink circle.

I would probably go for a more reduced transformation - and keeping to one color scale. For example starting with grey.
...and something less strict - perhaps more free-form, sweeping, curling.
Something illustrating movement.. It would be easy in an amination, harder to do in a logo...

For example in #56 each shape is an exact step. With fewer states, perhaps just two, the first one could be partly transformed, like different roundness of the corner. Or something - I know what I mean when I see it ;)

Perhaps like a teleporter - bits flying from one shape to another?


And don't be afraid of doing something futuristic and flirt a bit with the sci-fi genre. For me, you had that feeling in the 5th Dimension Concepts-logo. Clean white, 3D and strict cold colors. I'm not saying this should be like that one, just that I liked it!

#57 is a bit more abstract - you would not understand the "shift" but as a logo it looks more balanced - better composition.

ill keep at it. Thanks.

Just a thought... Perhaps it would be possible to communicate the shift by having - just an example - four grey rocks in a line, among them, a diamond is placed, with a flare or glow showing that it just been transformed (perhaps with rock residues around it, like when an egg is hatched). Or a wand transforming it. Or just the diamond with roch residues. Not easy this... A logo should be reduced and clean, and what I describe here is far to complex... Just wanted to give you some concept inspiration.

thanks for the inspiration, its taking the time to share this that will mean you end up with a great logo.

spent some time thinking and sketching and here is my latest. Its meant to be a representation of a thought being nurtured and emerging from a sort of abstract cocoon. Its in a 3D style.

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Hi! This is a very nice update! #92 It's very abstract - but I do not mind that at all. I think the circle could have less gradients etc - make the logo symbol "plain". It's defentily interesting in shape and composition. Make you think a bit about what it is...

I will "feel" the logo for a bit - just got my internet connetction back.

Great, glad i am on the right track. My thoughts about this logo stemmed from your own comments. Trying to meld the concept of a think tank with the idea fo shifting/morphing/growing and give it a fantasy feel.

revision - gradient removed from sphere.

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#93 thanks, it's better.

#113 Interesting new suggestion, but I liked the #93 better :) The new one is a bit more plain and comming, does not stand out as much. But thanks for the update!

#113 Interesting new suggestion, but I liked the #93 better :) The new one is a bit more plain and comming, does not stand out as much. But thanks for the update!

#93 perhaps some color variations? For example with white background and variations in the shape? People that I ask finds the logo interesting - so it got something. Many loves the text logo. Possible to see it as grey on black background? Other colors for the symbol? Perhaps several?

glad to hear its sparking some thought....that's the message its meant to send isn't it? :)
Here are some colour variations for you.

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#174 Too grey..

#93
If you have the time - remove all "dropshadows" and make it plain 2D. Remove mirror-effect. Make logo dark grey an put it on white background. Easer to see how it would work on plain white paper. I still like this one a lot. When I show it to different people - the either love it, or don't like it at all (because the do not understand it). But that's what I like - the fact that is is unique and abstract.

For sure. Give me a minute and I will upload this.