Designing With the Stars: Preliminary Round, It's on, baby! Options

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The Task
Create a logo for you as if you were CEO Marketing Director (?) of your company.


Design Elements:
A logo is something that is in print world wide and has to be universal. It's on everything from letterheads to back of notecards. Your logo must have functionality, and duality. It has to be able to be placed ANYWHERE on ANYTHING COMPUTER-RELATED.

Things you might want to do:

->Decide on a company name. Make it unique and flashy, but not GAUDY. Okay? Flashy as in unique and one-of-a-kind.
->Decide on color scheme. Colors are important! Not everything in the world is black and white. I mean, come on, we do have a RAINBOW!
->The internet is the greatest resource. Notice company logos and how SIMPLISTIC they are. Nike is just a check mark, for god's sake. Mcdonald's? Totally just a yellow M. Do RESEARCH before you make something final!


Brief Lesson :

Functionality:
It needs to be universal. The most common example I can think of as I am typing this up at 1:00 in the morning is Nike and the checkmark. It is on the tv, shoes, letters, shoeboxes. It's EVERYTHING. ANd it looks the same. But none of your logos are going on shoes. Unless..well. Yeah. You catch the drift.

It needs to be something that is NOT COMPLEX. Simplicity is elegance. Yes, complex layouts are hot but they can tend to look cluttered. Don't make it look cluttered. Also, make sure that if say, you didn't have access to a color printer in time and all you had is black and white, make sure there is enough contrast between everything. It needs to be universal and serve plenty of duality.

Obnoxious:
Don't make it big and obnoxious. Yes, you want something that'll catch peoples eye and go "Oh wow, what's this?" but come on. Use yo' common sense, bro!

Examples:
Simple logos
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/43550827/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/9515816/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/29383958/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/11767187/

Text logos:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/25224151/


Requirements:

Logo needs to be NO BIGGER than 400 x 400 (in terms of pixels) with a RESOLUTION OF 72
Logo needs to be submitted in COLOR & BLACK/WHITE
YOU WILL BE SUBMITTING TWO VERSIONS OF YOUR LOGO.


WHEN SUBMITTING YOUR LOGO:
SEND IT TO MONA (LISA) with DESIGN as the subject. Okay?

Deadline as of now: Sunday March 18, 2007.

Good luck guys.