The K9 CoachLogo Design Contest

Looking forward to seeing the creativity of "coaching" dogs through trianing and helping to create a happy K9 family. Often people are very frusturated when their dog has issues.... training the dog can create a very happy, playful, and stable dog that the family can enjoy.

I'm not looking for people in the logo -- just dogs, preferrably a dachshund and a great dane -- but just conveying that they are having fun!

Does anyone know how I can add a few pictures to help convey the body shape of the Dane / puppy play bow, etc?

I figure out how to post a few pics -- these are pics of my dogs or my friends dogs in our rescue group. Hopefully it gives you some idea of the body type, ear crop on the danes, and their goofy personalities.

Dachshunds are full of tenacity and think they are every bit as big as the Danes. Long bodies, Deep chested. short stock legs, usually very muscular.

I do not have a picture that I've taken of a play bow -- but in essence the front part of the body is low inlcuding the head -- usually almost to the ground/floor, while the butt is up in the air. It's a invitation to play :-)

Oh boy the ideas are so fun to look at. This is going to be a difficult decision! Thank you all for participating.

Very exciting work has come in and I appreciate it very much. And though I'm not sure other entries will arrive in the next few minutes -- the last 3 days have solidfied some key thinking for me

I definately want the dane and the dachshund to be clearly disginguishable as those breeds
Royal Blue and Bright Lime Green are the right colorx
The font should be easily readable for print, carwaps, webpage, etc -- I leaning much more to the clean crisp lines of fonts

Wow, watching that timer run down was stressful, making sure I'd have the right selections in place for phase 2. I'm not entirely clear if I can only with with the top 5 ranked images, or the top 5 designers of the top 5 enteries, etc. Either way I have 4 designers in the top 5 and hope they can leverage elements of other designed they have created.

As I mentioned above, I am strongly leaning towards very crisp clean fonts. Easily read at a glance on marketing materials.

I also really like the notion of have the word "The" de-emphasized by making it smaller relative to the words "K9 Coach" if that's possible.

The dogs definately need to be a dane and a dachshund and the Dane tends to render better with cropped ears.

Each of you has unqiue design for the dogs & it's going to be very hard to choose. There are details within each that may need to be refined just a bit and am excited to see where this goes next!!!

You guys all rock!