Many thanks Sebastian and congratulations on being No, 1!
My first comment (which will help everyone) is I'd like the DUO to be even smaller (it really is there only as a trademark necessity). Oh and FYI, the DUO stands for "Do Unto Others" which is our underlying corporate philosophy (and rather rare in our industry), so suppose it's also a conversation starter as well (so maybe it doesn't need to be completely buried). Sorry, really should have mentioned that in the brief!
Hope you don't mind me saying but the "mark" isn't really to my liking either - a little too rigid (for want of another description)
#13 - ooh I like the symbol (appealing to my ego using my initial :-) ) Not so keen on the font and the blue and green's not doing it for me. I know they're the colours in the brief but am thinking it's more an either/or situation rather than both together OR perhaps introduce even more colour?? Would like to see the symbol in a gold/yellow treatment (perhaps with other warmer colours? Crazy women who can't make up their mind!)
#14 - love the symbol but makes me ask, "what is it?" (looks like a laptop - is that right?). Definitely not keen on this font.
#15 - don't like this symbol at all (looks like going nowhere with no outcome)
Overall, let's try some new colours and, if possible, a more feminine feel
#51 - MANY thanks Sebastian. Really like what you've done with the text here. As per the updated brief (sorry, you may not have seen it), could you pls do DUO as D.U.O.
Re. the symbol, not sure the two colours work so well like this. Any chance of seeing it executed as per #16 with the gold as the dominant colour and the purple the accent colour. When done this way, not entirely sure about how the text should be presented - all purple or still having "The" and "D.U.O." in gold, what do you think?
To really push the favour, wouldn't mind seeing one with the symbol all gold and all of the text (perhaps with the exception of D.U.O.?) in purple.