Design a Stylish transparent EPS logo (one for use on one white background & one negative image version for use on dark background)

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Prêmio: $100
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Vencedor: primavaradin07

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Hello,

I need a quality impressive stylish corporate logo for my new business "Downunder Digital". I am a marketing & SEO consultant, I do some web design / Wordpress stuff but am not a skilled graphic designer. I will be offering all web/marketing services in Australia & NZ (so I expect I will be also be outsourcing more graphics work to my chosen designer in the future.)

In terms of this job:

I have attached a draft of a 'swirl' that I sketched. I scanned it then added some very simple text just to show that the words need to be added so that swirl combines with the swirl (the two D's) to become:

DOWNUNDER
DIGITAL

or

Downunder
Digital

I think it might look better in capitals/uppercase, but am open to either.

I expect I will want the image to be supplied as Transparent vector EPS image & I must be able to use it on a WHITE background. I would also like a negative image for dark background.

I think my mockup example uses very ugly blocky font so please note I do NOT want the font/words to look like my black font in my mockup. it is just to show that I see the words sitting to the right of the DD swirl. Please feel free to totally change the mockup, as long as we have a DD swirl I am happy.

I am happy for u to recreate the swirl based on my rough concept draft.

Also, as you can see, in my example the IGITAL word is shorter than the OWNUNDER, however I expect for this design/concept to look good the IGITAL/igital (upper or lowercase) may need to be the same length of the OWNUNDER. Or maybe not, I am flexible with this. Hope that makes sense.

The very simple mockup is in black, but I DO want some colour in the logo. I am open to colours, but do kind of have orange, black/greys and white in mind.
I have attached a few files FYI. This includes some snips of the website I am going to make for which I need this logo now.

I like the colours used in my current website theme (in attached pics), but I think if the logo colours are tooo similar to the main orange used throughout this website (see #7a_WebsitesMainOrange-probNotAGoodOrangeForLogo.PNG) it would probably NOT be an effective logo as it would not standout?? I dont know maybe i am wrong about that....
I am open to the use of other colours as well.
Perhaps the DD swirl could be a cool/suitable orange.. maybe the swirl could even have a Paintbrush or a Fire feel to it.. ? There are some nice examples of some possible shades of orange that could be incorporated into the logo shown in the file "#7_SomeOranges.png" so an orange like the orange colour to the left of the words "Marketing Consultant" or "Branding Identity" on this attachment (#7_SomeOranges.png) might be ok but I am flexilble with the orange colour too...

Perhaps a grey can be used for the words? Perhaps different shades of grey for each word, or the same grey - I dont know. Black or another colour could also be included.

As noted above, I also need a negative image version of this logo that works on a dark background. I attached a logo which I think is kinda cool (#8_KindaCoolLogo.PNG) FYI, but of course this colour scheme would only work as the Negative Image version. In the "Betstar" examples like the way one word is bolder than the other, so perhaps we could do something similar, for example the OWNUNDER could be bolder than the IGITAL?

Pease note I willl need to resized the EPS logo you supply me down to a very small logo, 144x35pixels at 72dpi (from my understanding of gfx design) for use in this website/theme. So my point here is that the words need to readable at quite a small size. I have attached the original demo logo (original-theme-logo.png) so you can see what I mean.

I will also use the logo for business cards etc.

I need this logo to be Cool, clean, sharp and professional, and something that works with the attached website theme colours. Please let me know any questions, or feel free to send/show me examples of other work with questions etc. to scope the concept further

cheers
Dave

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Proprietário do Concurso
- 9 anos atrás
Hi all, many thanks for all your entries. I will be meeting with my team and making a decision on which one we most like early next week.
- 9 anos atrás
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- 9 anos atrás
.... I am open to the swirl being part of the word as it is with #11 or #18 (which was how I originally envisioned the concept) or seperated out as it is with #25 & #27 ... at this point I am thinking either option could be the winning design. Also #18 is quite stunning on the black like that, not sure how it would look on the white though & I do need it on white as well. #24 is nice, different to what I originally had in mind, but it looks cool & I like that font as I think it looks more professional and sharp than some of the other fonts
- 9 anos atrás
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1. ceebee21
  - 9 anos atrás
  Hello CH, Pls leave feedback on #71 #72 #73 #74 & #75 . Thanks :)
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2. Proprietário do Concurso
  - 9 anos atrás
  Hi ceebee. These are cool, but not really what I am looking for thanks. I think I will be choosing from the ones remaining with 4 stars. Thanks anyways, appreciate you taking the time
  - 9 anos atrás
ceebee21
- 9 anos atrás
Hello CH, Pls leave feedback on #71 #72 #73 #74 & #75 . Thanks :)
- 9 anos atrás
ceebee21
- 9 anos atrás
Hello CH, Pls leave feedback on #71 & #72 . Thanks :)
- 9 anos atrás
Proprietário do Concurso
- 9 anos atrás
In terms of working the swirl in with the words/fonts, I think #11 or #18 is closest but I dont really like the font that is used in #11 . I think the font in #27 or #18 is more suitable (looks a bit sharper)....
- 9 anos atrás
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- 9 anos atrás
Hi guys, thank you for your entries. I have give 3 stars to my favs so far. In terms of my feeback on the direction so far: I like the overall direction/feeling of #25 / #27 , but the swirl looks a wonky/off-balance? Especially in the bottom left, if we look at my original mockup swirl we could kind of draw an (imaginery invisble) straight diagonal line on a 45 degree angle from the bottom left corner to the top right corner and it would run directly through the middle of the swirl and would all balance.. To be honest I am not sure if this will actually look better, (perhaps it needs to be like that to look like a D)... but my original idea was more balanced down the invisible diagonal line -- I think this relates to how #27 doesnt quite feel like it sit balanced inside that box how I would expect.
- 9 anos atrás
Proprietário do Concurso
- 9 anos atrás
I am happy for you to recreate the swirl concept. Also happy to see completely different designs :). Thanks all
- 9 anos atrás
1. primavaradin07
  - 9 anos atrás
  And we would be happy if you could give us some feedback for knowing which direction we should go... Thank you!
  - 9 anos atrás