Great concept. I like the starry S but am a little bit concerned that the overall look is too feminine. The stars look too flowery. Not crazy about that color purple either - looking for something more colorful with magenta, yellow, oranges, greens, etc. that can mix well and stand out with the blue/purple/blacks on our website (www.starscapemedia.com). The film strip background for Media is really cool. Looking for more of a square logo concept than a straight line across.
here is a vertical variation. I can play with the stars shape if you like but i felt once the color was removed the flower type appearance was removed.
I like the way the vertical logo is contained really nicely and I like the text treatment at the bottom with the filmstrip look a lot. For the starry part, I'm really looking for something more realistic - or at least more dynamic, with a real night sky feel and a little bit of color mixed in. Colors should be warm reds, yellows, oranges, and maybe some green, blue, purple mixed in to help tie the logo in to the website background (www.starscapemedia.com).
Very nice work on #49 biink! I love the way you can tell the stars are high above the city. Great concept! I like the stars a lot too - the variation is great!
A few notes...
We're located in the mountains of in the southeastern part of the US. Consequently, at this time we don't really serve a city market - but hope to reach the whole US one of these days! To localize the logo a little bit, would it be possible for you to keep the city scape in part of the image but also include maybe a mountain or hill and a smaller town feel on the other side of the image? I love the way the city buildings are so 3D though - that is great! Would love to keep that feeling - even with some changes/additions to that part of the graphic.
Another possibility - maybe just play with this - would be to include a person reaching for the stars somewhere in the image. Our motto is "REACH," as in "reach for the stars/the sky's the limit"sort of thing, and I think a person reaching up might fit in really nicely with that.
Another thought is to maybe have you continue to play with the colors a bit. Maybe try out some different color arrangements and deepen the saturation a bit. Maybe add some green and light blue if you're able to work a mountain, or smaller town feel in.
Overall I really like what you've done though! Really neat concept!!! THANKS!!!
Really nice work there on #51 biink! Impressive that you could come up the hills and everything so quickly. You really nailed that.
I can't decide if I like the person or not. I like the concept of having the person there, but I'm thinking the current person is bending in a weird shape so that their body kind of looks like an ant to me. Could you continue to play around with people images.
I like the colors that you're working with and the art deco feel that the logo has. I feel like it needs just a touch of brightness or warmth added though. Think you could add a little orange into the tail end of one of the comets or something to add a touch of brightness?
I really like the way the logo is contained in the upright box - with the text fitting nicely at the bottom. The text looks great in the filmstrip. Could you play around with keeping the logo as a small icon on the side though - with the text beside it - just to see what that would look like. I've been saying that I wanted an upright emblem-type logo but designer friends have told me that can present a problem when the logo is scaled down really small - and so I might need a strong enough text element that it can stand alone if needed at times. Also the emblem should be strong enough to stand alone at times - which I think this one would be. Would like to see it maybe beside the text though and with a different border (maybe no border, but just let the edges fade out) around the logo - just to see what that would look like.
One more note: my website background is black, so I'm trying to envision what this would look like on a black background. Could you try putting it on a black background? Thanks again!
no problem. Just bear in mind that changes to the layout are very time consuming and you will turn off a lot of designers changing your mind late in the contest. What I did is broke apart the design for you so that you can use it various ways. The square will not look good on its own so i opted for a circle to capture it all. the colors are simpler but brighter because once I had added more colors in I felt it ruined the overall feel of the logo. I added some more stars and brightened up the comets and also adjusted the person.Let me know what you think.
oh and by the way i wouldn't worry about shrinking the design as these are all vectored which means they dont loose quality no matter how big or small you make them.
i am also happy to email you a copy of the text by itself (if you choose my design) if you want to be able to use it as a stand alone and stick with the original square emblem.
Great biink, thanks! #55 - I like the bolder/brighter colors. The person I'm still not sure about. This one at first glance made me think of Superman about to take flight! Thanks for putting the logo on black. It looks good on black too.
Thanks for your attempt in #54 to go wide. I'm still trying to decide if that works or not. I think it could grow on me. The circle emblem seems to need a little something extra to make it stand out. Maybe something to make it a bit more rounded/globe-esque and 3-dimensional?
If we could find the right person reaching for the sky I'd be interested in seeing a real simple image of that scene - the person reaching into the sky - hanging out freely beside the text without a border. I'm envisioning that in maybe just white on black - so basically it would just be a simplistic outline of the images in white hanging out beside the text - without being encased in any border or emblem or anything. Make sense?
Thanks for your offer to e-mail the text as a stand-alone graphic in addition to the logo emblem if you win the contest. That's certainly of interest to me.
I like the whimsical feel that the person on #51 has - but it looks a little bit like they are doing yogo or something. Maybe keep going for the whimsical feel but not quite so much so.
Maybe a starting place would be to try and take a person like that in #55 and see if you can have them reach one hand up in the sky, as opposed to two, and try to cup their hand as if they are trying to catch a falling star.
#56 has a lot of potential I think. I'm liking the 3D feel that it's starting to have but wonder if it could be made even more 3-dimensional. Also, the person in that one looks like he's trying to break out of a bubble instead of reach for the stars. If the person there could reach up instead of out and try to handle a star I think that might be really cool.
I'm not as crazy about the text treatment on #56 though, as it ends up looking like the word Starscape is sandwiched between two images. If you could play with the text on that one - maybe get away from the filmstrip styling altogether and we'll see what that looks like. I really like the emblem logos but it seems as though the wider logo would work better on the website and for a lot of things in general.
thanks again for the feedback. Can you tell me which type (vertical/horizontal) you want me to head in. I would love to keep going on both but i will end up with a lot of logo you wont use. For now I will update both and hopefully that hope you with which way you want to head. So far its been a pleasure working with someone with such great feedback. I will resubmit as soon as I am done.
ok here is your favorite with the person switched out. Hope i got it this time. The stars are slightly changed and I have also made it larger so that you can see the detail a little better this time.
Thanks for your additional designs. Regarding #66 - It does look more 3 dimensional with the three swipes on the right side but in general I don't really like the swipes at all. Also I think the hand reaching up in #66 looks too unnatural.
You've created some great logos and I really appreciate all your work. At the same time I think I need to step away from all the logos for a little while and process all the different logos that have been entered in the contest. This is all very overwhelming on my end! I imagine it must be on a designer's end as well!
here is one more variation to dwell on. This process can be overwhelming so i understand. Let me know if you want anything else done whilst you reflect.
one piece of advice which may simplify things for you is to place any designs that you dont want or no longer like into the "not interested" section. This will reduce what you are looking at and make things easier to process.
Thanks biink. You've been great to work with and I appreciate all of your hard work.
I really do like a lot of the logos that you have created. So far you have definitely come the closest to achieving the vision I've had in the emblem category.
I have posted another general comment/direction post on my main contest page and will more than likely just need to let the next few days pass, seeing what additional looks and logos come in, and in the end trying to step away and sort out what will work best as the Starscape Media logo.
Thanks again for your hard work and for being so great to work with.
Been thinking... can you envision a remix of what you've already achieved with the city, the hills, the person reaching for the starry sky in 65 - only instead of being boxed or circled in and color-filled it would just be outline of those images set off to the side of the Starscape Media text? I think I like the text from #66 pretty well. I mentioned in my general post that I like the concept behind the DreamWorks logo:
I know it needs to be pretty simple in general, so I guess you may have to eliminate some of the elements from the current emblem logo (#65) - but in general try to keep that same image in an outline form - maybe just one color - to set beside the text in a horizontal logo similar to the DreamWorks layout/concept?
Wow that's pretty cool! (reference to # 69) Great idea with the ladder reaching to the stars!
I'm not too keen on the figure (person) though. It's kind of cool how he's hanging from one rung reaching out backwards but I think it might be better to have him climbing the ladder (facing the ladder) and reaching up. My thought there is that it will draw attention to the text more, rather than drawing attention away from the text???
Also the man just looks a little out of proportion in general. One leg looks bigger than the other and he looks a little wide in the mid-section. He must be middle-aged! ;-) I don't want to be too critical, I'm sure designing those little guys is not easy, and it doesn't help any that the image that I'm seeing is really small and I can't zoom in to see what's really going on there, but those are my thoughts.
One more thought, while I'm sharing them, is that I think I'd rather see the person in solid white rather than in the purple/pink variation. The color in the sky is kind of nice though, and I like the 3D look that the moon has - that's very nice!
Thanks biink!
One more thought... if it's not too much trouble maybe just color this backwards ladder guy white in addition to trying another with the man climbing the ladder and reaching up with one arm. I think that will give me a better idea of which look is the best. Thanks again!
Here you go. I have purposely still made the guy reach out to the left even though he's now facing the ladder and this is so the overall design remains balanced. If I were to have him reaching up it means the whole logo feels heavy on the right. The guy has gone on a diet and i have evened out his legs too. Switching him to white and changing the ladder color worked really well. I cant make them both white as you would lose his image on the ladder. I know you want someone reaching up but i think the ladder still gives you the striving sense whilst adding to the image by inferring that the company will help you achieve the goal of reaching. Let me know what you think. We have to be getting close. Everyone here loves this one.
Thanks biink, I like it quite a bit. Would like to see some more primary colors worked in somehow, as I don't want the logo to just be purpley and pink. I think that's a little too feminine.
And the man still looks a little bit weird to me.
You've got a great design going on in general though.
On second thought... I just took another look at #69 and compared the two men (in #69 and #70). If he's going to be turned around backwards one way or another I think I like the adventure of him hanging off the ladder in #69. Would just like to see him solid white and not as abnormal. Then of course the color changes that I mentioned above would still apply.
no need to apologize for wanting changes. This is your logo at the end of the day. Lucky for you i enjoy this :). Here is a version with the revisions. I have slimmed out the guy and made him white. I thought i would try incorporate the buildings to bring some additional color into the logo since you liked that aspect from the other designs.
ok here is a variation with a focus on bringing the colors back to male. This is extremely well balanced and gives a feeling of empowerment which i like.
Another very creative entry from you, which I truly appreciate. I'm thinking that this won't really work though, as I'm looking for an image that can stand alone on it's own without the text and speak for the company. I don't think this will work with the long lights streaming from the guy's hand. How about about flipping the guy around and having him just reaching up for one of the stars? Not sure how I feel about the text. It's different and the stars atop the a's are kinda nice but I'm not completely sold on them.
I like #103. Can you add one more bold primary color in to that design somehow and change up the text? Need something really modern, like #70, but that stands out more.
i have revised this design in line with the colors you have chosen for your number one pick. A little confused as to why you are asking me for more colors only to pick a new favorite which has only blue and white. Also a little frustrated to have my design bumped down so far with so little time to go. I think after 20 + revisions you would have something you liked. A little unfair.
not many designers would have devoted as much time to a small prize contest as I have. I would hope you could at least award me a trophy for my efforts. Pretty poor form.
Sorry, just now getting your messages. Your statements were a little premature but I understand that you have good reason to be so interested in this contest, as you have really invested yourself in this and you have turned in some very good designs. I hope to wrap up judging this contest sometime pretty soon. Thanks again for your entries.