Hi Chad,
I love your work, and think with a few minor changes we could be onto something here. Could you please remove the basketball, whilst this is a big focus in the products that will be available through my site, I don't particularly want to be considered sports specific.
Happy with the circle behind the character to be in two colours as displayed in entry #108.
I like the font used in entry #106 best (with a bit of a polish up, perhaps incorporate some blue and a thick black keyline border), I get a little lost in entry #108 and I feel that in the infancy stages of my business my branding needs to be clear.
I really like that you have incorporated a character into the logo. This was something I was originally looking for when I entered the design brief. I think this really brings the entire logo to the forefront. I do have some minor concerns that I will hit some trouble with copyright law and AND1.
http://www.florian-blum.de/fotos/Logos/AND1_Logo1.jpgI know that these are different, however we might need to come up with something alittle more defining to avoid some issues. What are your thoughts?
Regards,
Paul