1st Winner
logo for Sailing Dinghy Names .com.au
Entry #19 by bazz

logo for Sailing Dinghy Names .com.au

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Client → Chris

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$250
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All 2 Winning Designs!

#19 by bazz
#31 by logolumi
Contest Holder
Chris
Industry
Designs
43
Designers
9
Status
Winner(s) Selected

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Design Brief

Contest title: logo for Sailing Dinghy Names .com.au
Sub title: SailingDinghyNames.com.au
Category: Logo Design

Brand Name:

Sailing Dinghy names

Summary: we need a logo design for a website that enables sailing dinghy owners ( normally 8 to 21 year olds) to design and order their boat name and personalise them with graphics.
Description:  It needs to be able to work on T-shirts and merchandise as well, needs to look cool so that they want to wear the logo and place the logo on their boats as well as their boat name. prefered colours that seem popular in sailing dinghy gear are dark grey, red and white, I think i would like a very firey red (a bit orange) and the use of carbon fibre texture in the dark grey background.  
Design Goals:

i have attached a very quick mock up of the sort of style we are after.   it needs to convery speed and extreme sailing, needs to have a young person realy leaning out and going fast. look at images of sailing dinghies to see the shape and the possition when they graphic cool design a bit grunge style i thnk. something that works as a stand alone logo with three colours and as a black and white logo or  with three or more colours on a t-shirt are going fast, needs to have a spinaker sail, (very round sail at the front) see photo attached

Design No-Gos: don't want the wrong style of boat. don't want anything that does not look cool to kids

Contest Attachments

Contest material, sample files and attachments for the contest uploaded by Contest Holder.

110_679523702.jpg position of boy really leaning out when going fast
110_1554254517.jpg

About Contest

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Created on: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:59:10 +0000
Ends on: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:59:10 +0000
Status: Winner(s) Selected

Prize(s)

1st Prize: $250
2nd Prize: $50

Comments

user avatar aimbuzz Designer
Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:50:08 +0000

Do you want to keep the current logo? or you want something different? 'cause I saw rated one just another improvement of the existing logo.

user avatar Chris Contest Holder
Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:24:13 +0000

#19 that uses our design is so far still our favorite but the boat has been changed to one that is not the right shape, can everyone please use our boat and add highlights shines and shadows
also maybe play with different wording
also on a white oval with a carbon fibre background version would be good

user avatar 110Designs Administrator
Sun, 04 Mar 2012 08:12:05 +0000

Contest Holder: If you are using Windows version, you can right-click the file and move over 'send to' it opens a sub-menu. Select 'Compressed (zipped) folder' from here to get your file zipped. You can then upload it here.

Thanks.

Admin
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user avatar Chris Contest Holder
Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:57:17 +0000

i can email the vector file for this if you request it from chris@boatnames.com.au I would have uploaded it but it says it has to be zipped and i don't have the software for that

user avatar Chris Contest Holder
Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:48:50 +0000

please see new files attached, i have done some work on boat shape and lettering, this is basicall y how i want it, but would lile some highlights and shins like you see on modern web logos and icons, would also welcome any other improvments you can think of

user avatar Chris Contest Holder
Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:05:04 +0000

# 7 #8 #6 all too basic not enough intrest or detail, but the colour red is really good.
#3 #4 #5 are all to young kid like, for younger then 8 years old i think, if we target 16 year olds then kids younger and older will still like the design
#1 #2 too corporate

user avatar logolumi Designer
Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:19:14 +0000

thank you for your prompt feedback contest holder. Will followup with your comments. thanks

user avatar Chris Contest Holder
Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:15:47 +0000

This is a nice logo, but I thnk it is not trendy, cool, graphic enough for kids to want to put on their boats or wear a shirt with it on, It looks too corporate. If i was marketing to adults i would realy like it.
Some things you have missed in the brief:
1. The logo has to have a person in it leaning out and the sails need to be leaning back at an angle to give the impression of speed.
2. The orange is much to orange, should really be red with a bit of orange in it. needs carbon fibre somewhere
3. Would like a Spinaker sail at the front of the boat
Also i think the font should be more modern, (sans serif) maybe something like Handel gothic
thank you for your efforts