Surespan DigitalLogo Design Contest

Hello Tom and Welcome to LogoTournament.

A new feature has been implement where all contest on LT are blind during the first phase (open) of the contest. Only you can see the a submissions we cannot. During this phase you probably notice similar designs to what other designers have uploaded, we are not copying each other just means we come up with similar ideas based on the brief

Please keep in mind that any changes or ideas you share privately either PM (private message) or on the designers upload page for the contest is confidential and should not be shared with others. The reason for this is it will lead to designer disputes that will effect your project.

Once the contest goes into the second phase "Finalist" all designs are revelled and only the Top 5 designers you've selected can continue.

Designers can be re-arranged even ones that were not part of the Top 5 if you lost interest in a designers work and feel another is more on track simply move him/her to the Top 5 and so on.

Scott

I would suggest a white background to make it easier to incorporate into paper, web, etc. A coloured rectangle, espacially a dark one, brings too much focus to the background of the logo on bright surfaces (which is most of them) rather than to the logo iteself.
Thank you kindly.

I would also recommend avoiding gradiants, espacially transitioning from one color to another. Gradients are tough to reproduce properly where size and resolution are limited - icons for example. They also yeild unexpected results sometimes where compression is applied.
Thank you kindly.