Venditore VincenteLogo Design Contest

Thank you to you all. I want to be clear: the "V" is what we have now, but if you can think or another symbol is more than welcome. Anything that you feel can fit is welcome, don't feel restrained to the "V.

Another guideline, fonts. Personally I like Heavy/Black fonts for this project because I feel they convey the "solid, strong, effective" feeling to the logo. Helvetica Black and Franklin Gothic Heavy are the obvious choice. But we are open to any font you designer choose if it works with the logo for you. Thanks.

FEEL FREE TO EXPLORE other symbols other than the "V".
One idea (don't know how good it is) is the salesman suitcase (open it could be a V itself).
Explore, dare. You think of a superhero? Try it.

RESET! This contest RESTARTS NOW!

Hello, I am writing because I am not getting from any designer what I want.

Maybe the brief was too strict or misleading but I am getting only "V for Vendetta" like logo and I am sick of them! I could make one myself I didn't need to do this contest on Logotournament and spend this money.

I believe all of you are talented designers, so I am expecting something talented from you. What I am getting so far is too little creativity, too little inspiration, too little mind and ideas.

FOLLOW THIS "new" BRIEF !
(it's an update and SIMPLIFICATION of the standard brief)
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If You joined the contest after I sent this brief update, here is
some info you MUST READ.

WHAT IS THE BRAND

"Venditore Vincente" is the brand of a new training company selling training for sales people. The meaning is " Winning Sales person".

The payoff says "Il primo sistema di vendita in Italia" meaning "The first sales system in Italy".

WHAT WE WANT THE LOGO TO COMMUNICATE

These are ideas you can work with.
We aren't expecting the logo communicates ALL these ideas.
Any can work.

- This is a solid system that works
- No frill, very practical like you salesman
- Strong and effective
- This makes you a Winning Sales Person
- Evoluiton of a salesman (from mediocre to winning)

So the KEYWORDS you can work on are:

- System
- Evolution
- Winning Sales
- Reaching for the Stars

MUST

- Horizontal logo

COLORS

- Any color you think can work for this logo will be considered.

As you see the new brief is leaves you much more free to express your creativity.

HOWEVER, if your creativity will not be in brief, communicating what we want to communicate it will be ranked as "not interesting".

In short, I ask you to put your mind and find the right synthesis of symbols, colors and fonts that communicate the above things. We will prize creativity AND professionalism (right font, kerning, taste and eye for legibility).

Start now and let's see who is the Winning Designer!

WHY WE HAVE CHOSEN THE LOGOS THAT ARE SHORTLISTED

1) Superman-like logo. It has an idea (it's ours, however, we provided the basic symbol) and while not optimal (it says "supersalesman" not "winning salesman") it works. Moreover it adds some color to the logo.

2) V 3D logo. It's the best version of the "V" symbol and logo so far. We also like the font choice and treatment. The problem with this is that there is not an idea, it's just an "ok" logo but it's nothing memorable.

3) Black-Red man walking logo. There is an idea here, that this brand helps salespeople to change from normal to winning. However, we don't like how it is rendered, so we asked for a different style of this idea.

4) Salesman with bars logo. There is an idea of trying to convey "salesman" and "winning". It doesn't work effectively for us, but we chose it to show all designers we want this sort of outside the box thinking.

5) Salesman with V logo. Similar to the previous one: we think it's too literal (the black salesman) but it's an example of going outside the "V" for the logo.

6) Suitcase logo. Another example of an attempt to find a different symbol to say "winning salesman". It doesn't work well enough in our opinion, but we again selected to show we want this kind of stuff (not the suitcase, but some outside thinking symbol).

7) Various "V" logos. Any of them is "ok", none of them is worth the effort we're putting in this contest (and the money, sorry).

Here is a reference for you to understand the previous comment:

1) Entry # 141
2) Entry # 40
3) Entry # 138
4) Entry # 139
5) Entry # 120
6) Entry # 125
7) Entry # 67, 11, 68, 37

So do you want us to have a superhero symbol, but without using the 'V' character in the design?

Gamerworld14 do what you feel answers the brief.
Consider also:

- system
- winning (salesman)
- evolution

STOP SENDING LOGOS in BLACK AND RED!
I am sick of seeing them! :-)

In the (old) brief I said: one proposal in black and red and one
or more IN THE COLORS YOU think are right.

DO WHAT YOU THINK IS RIGHT. And THINK!
Don't put a symbol just because you have a CDROM full of them.
IF it means nothing it is just wasting time for everybody.

We have 4 RANKED logos and 9 UNRANKED LOGOS.

The ranked logos are the one we think can win, the unranked are for designers to get inspiration. While none of them is going to make it in the final, they show other areas than the "V" logo we received (hundreds).

So look at the unranked not as something we like, but about areas you can explore and make it work for us (the unranked logos don't work for us).

Designers, please remember to respect the work of other designers and present your own ideas or ideas first presented by the Contest Holder. Please also be sure that your entries are significantly different than those already presented.

OMG you have been too late, I am sorry. It's automatic, I cannot reopen it.

I thank you all for the submissions. It will take more than one day (but we have one week) to choose the winner, we got about 80 submissions in the last 2 hours and overall over 700!

So bear with us and good luck to all the contestants.

Marco