GAF, design a logo for my business! UPDATE: See the winning designs!

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Yeah, I loved how clean and elegant Adol's entries were. In the end, though, I preferred the almost militaristic boldness of snorggy's submission. I imagine it would "pop" better on an advertisement. Also, it's simple enough that it works in black and white without losing any of its evocativeness, which is important for me.

I was also thinking of maybe having an animated version for the site or commercials in the future, and that particular logo seemed quite versatile for a variety of media. I can already see the .swf of theplant growing from the "D" seed :-p

I am madly in love with the color story happening in the second Adol one, though. I wish I could use all of them heh
 
A veritable cornucopia of flavors just appeared in my mailbox :-p

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Ignore the colors for now - that was the result of some focus-tested unfortunates who didn't get the metaphor until prompted
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A B C
D E F
G H I

Each has a different font, and the right-most column (C, F, and I) have slightly varying "droop" levels for the sprouting plant in addition.

I like the font for "Learning" in C and G, personally. Undecided on whether C, F, or I improve the appearance of the sprouting plant, but I'm gravitating toward I there.

Now that we're closer to finalizing font, snorggy and I are working on color. I think a lighter shade of green like this might work better:

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Beyond that, also thinking of what file formats and such (ex. vector, transparent if BG isn't white) I'd need to maximize the logo's potential use cases.

I'm very pleased with the progress so far. Anyone who needs any type of design work done should feel confident with snorggy and his awesomeness :-)
 
They all look excellent, they really all do.

But you choose the best one like I would have as well, because as an entrepreneurial-minded person myself, I love and appreciate a clever reference/double meaning in a company logo. I love to see them, and the one you chose not only does it, but does it in a brilliant way that could even be too deep for some to catch or appreciate, which you yourself said that happened, since you had to make the colored ones for your focus group. The name being Seed, with an actual seed growing out of the D, brilliantly shown as growing out of the ground, the growing as a metaphor for your tutoring people to grow.

Bravo snorggy. It's on the level of Amazon's A to Z that most don't ever notice.

I do love the super-clean and modern styling of Adol's font and logo too though, amazing.

Personally on the font, I'd go with the same choice as yours, but with the thickness of E. It pops more when you see the size of everything shrunk to a smaller size.

It's always great to see GAF showing its own personal talents in times like these, even better to see everyone get rewarded for them too.
 
Snorggy's samples are terrific.

Design choices

Sprout = C
It's more positive than the slouching alternatives. :P
While OP said not to discuss colors, I like the colorless version very much.

"Learning" Font = B
I also like C but B is just a tiny bit better in smaller format

Typography is srs business

I only have one possible suggestion for logo color
try the green from the 3 set of logos
 
Alistair Roo said:
There's something about this one.. I really REALLY like it.
Minimalistic design, clean and elegant.
The use of colors was perfect, make great contrast and the idea just pops up.
The "Seed" font was a smart choice.. the "learning" one not so much. I would have used a bold font without brackets but overall a great work.

Congrats to the winner.
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I agree, I like it better. The size balance between the mark/text could be adjusted so that it would work better at small sizes, but that one feels much more fresh and modern.
 
Alistair Roo said:
There's something about this one.. I really REALLY like it.
Minimalistic design, clean and elegant.
The use of colors was perfect, make great contrast and the idea just pops up.
The "Seed" font was a smart choice.. the "learning" one not so much. I would have used a bold font without brackets but overall a great work.

Congrats to the winner.
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Same. All 3 made great logos, but this one stuck out to me.
 
So we lightened up the color to a grassier green and went with Font C bolded.

Now it's the Duel of the Droop! "Original Droop" or "Perky Droop"?

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A vote for perky from me. Both versions look excellent in my opinion, so this is pretty much me deciding to give a very slight edge to the perky version.
 
Perky. Great logo too.
Adol's if the left logo was scaled down I also really like.

*Also would anyone be interested in a $200 bid for a logo for me(Boss)? I see I can use designcrowd, but figured I'd see if there was interest here and if people didn't want to be offended or whatever.
 
Hazaro said:
Perky. Great logo too.
Adol's if the left logo was scaled down I also really like.

*Also would anyone be interested in a $200 bid for a logo for me(Boss)? I see I can use designcrowd, but figured I'd see if there was interest here and if people didn't want to be offended or whatever.
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I got dozens of great entries, and I'm sure a $200 prize won't leave you with slim pickings by any means.

Try it out!
 
Leona...

I work in higher education and travel across the country recruiting students for my university. I do a lot of work with ACT and College Board and also independent counselors. What exactly is this service and where is it based out of? I work with a LARGE amount of High School students.

Good luck with this.
 
Malleymal said:
Leona...

I work in higher education and travel across the country recruiting students for my university. I do a lot of work with ACT and College Board and also independent counselors. What exactly is this service and where is it based out of? I work with a LARGE amount of High School students.

Good luck with this.
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Private academic tutoring - K-12 instruction/test-prep.

Which university, might I ask?
 
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