TrackadonLogo Design Contest

Distinction Not Extinction

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The logo should be the "Trachodon dinosaur". The concept comes from a play on my last name, Track, and the name of the real duck billed dinosaur, the "Trachodon". Even the cartoon Yugioh has created a dinosaur spelled "Trakadon". Our dinosaur should look cute, friendly, welcoming, fun, hip and sophisticated. Since our slogan is "Distinction Not Extinction" (which should be included in the logo), he should have that distinguished look. He should look sophisticated, i.e. top hat and cane; pipe & smoking jacket; at a computer; etc.

You can always Google "Trachodon" to get an idea of the real features of this dinosaur, even though the real thing doesn't look at all like I envision him. FYI, millions of children's toys have been based off of the Trachodon dinosaur. Also, something like Gon, from the Tekken video game series: http://images.google.com/images?q=gon+tekken

He is playful and baby-like (big head, big feet, a little chubby). Except of course ours would be sort of duck-billed. The great thing about Gon is that he is compact and could easily fit into a favicon.ico icon file if done correctly. So, the dinosaur itself should be fairly compact, not too long or tall. There should be typography next to him (which does not have to fit into an icon, obviously). However, we do NOT want something too immature...so it could be a sort of distinguished miniature dinosaur with some baby-like features.

ALSO, instead of a cartoon style, we were thinking more along the lines of the Firefox logo (except not on a globe, since that doesn't make sense...just the style). The firefox logo is great because it does not look cartoonish. It is very polished, and clearly vector-based and professional. It is simple, has no rough edges, is not overly complicated and has only basic shadowing -- perfect for the web, print and other media.

So basically a distinguished, duck-billed version of Gon from Tekken in the Firefox logo style, warm a cute, with a distinguished, sophisticated look.

Please read what I have to say below too... the only thing that's really different is that it should be less cartoonish.