Watermark PlumbingLogo Design Contest

I'm happy to provide any and all feedback to help out.

Blown away to wake up to so many wonderful designs. We will spend some time ranking and responding. In the meantime, a few initial comments.
I'd like to see some designs that are more circular. More of our company personality, maybe even a mascot, not just about our initials. I put lots of data in our profile and can answer specific questions to help out.

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Happy Logo Day

Scott

Hoping to move towards a more complex design and a retro/vintage feel and color palette. Also, haven't seen any designs with more color. We are open to anything. Hoping for a new perspective. Don't be limited by this, but just as a suggestion, maybe a teal/coral color palette? That lends itself to retro.

Designers,
I want to provide you with a lot of quick feedback, but I also want to give our staff and friends time to see everything. Please don't take the quick feedback we send as a signal to withdraw a design. Leave them up so we can talk about them.

I will try to rank things several times a day just to give everyone an idea of the direction for the things we are liking. But if we rank it, we like something about it.

Please don't withdraw designs. We are still looking at everything.

You all are so talented and we appreciate the wonderful submissions.

More Retro
More Vintage
More Color
Mascot Ideas

I'd like to see designs with mascots. Not crazy about weird cartoon people. We have a shop dog that you can see on our Facebook page and we are toying with using him in some of our advertising so that could be a direction.

Keep the creative ideas coming. Thanks.

Plumbing is never fun, we need a brand that overcomes those negative feelings.
When they see our logo, it should be
Catch their attention.
Be memorable.
They should LOVE IT!

Try to think more outside the box to designs that aren't so literal and instead make people feel happy.

I'd like to see less "W", less plunger, toilet, pipe stuff and more unique, original, outside the box ideas.

Retro is still our favorite vibe, but we are open to fresh ideas.

Here are some interesting articles and websites I found that might help with the Retro feel we are after. PLEASE DON’T COPY, but I realize some of you aren’t from the USA and therefore may not be as familiar with Americana style Retro design.
This first link actually has a great picture about halfway down with a “how-to” on it.

http://blog.jibemedia.com/2013/06/13/returning-to-retro-with-your-logo/
http://www.fuelyourcreativity.com/showcase-50-retro-logos-for-your-inspiration/
http://inspirationfeed.com/inspiration/50-striking-vintage-and-retro-logo-designs/
http://bashooka.com/inspiration/outstanding-retro-vintage-logos/