Logo Contest - $100 prize

hjo3

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Our local practice, the Animal Hospital of Pasco, needs a new logo for use in the telephone book. In the future, we may also use it on our web site, business cards, forms, and vet trucks.

What will eventually be required from the winning submitter:
A full-color high-resolution (at least 1.5 megapixels) lossless image with transparent background (e.g. PNG, PSD, or PSP). Also, a version of this image optimized for black and white print (i.e. grayscale).

The winner will receive $100, PayPal'ed directly from me to him/her (a money order can also be arranged, but this is less preferable). This contest will run from now until 12:00 PM (PST) on Thursday, October 7th.

Supplemental information for logo design (from the owner and business administrator):
Anthropomorphic ("cartoony") images are discouraged. Stylized is fine.
The practice handles large and small animals, with roughly equal emphasis. Most patients are either dogs, cats, or horses. (Though there's a sizable minority of goats, pigs, llamas, sheep, cows, mules, and ostriches). The practice does not handle exotics, like reptiles or small birds.
We have an in-house lab, surgical laser, x-ray machine, and other high-tech tools, but our vets are very down-to-earth people who can explain things simply and deal with pets in a caring way.
In the past, we've often used a color scheme of blue and light gray, but it's not a major point. The main criteria is that the logo look good and accurately represent the business (or, rather, not misrepresent the business).

Please make your submissions a standard web image type, either JPEG or GIF. Feel free to submit as many different designs as you like. If you need more information, just ask in this thread.

Thanks and good luck!
 

notfred

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You can afford to purchase in in-house lab, surgical laser, x-ray machine, and other high tech tools, but can't spend $300 on paying an actual designer to come up with a logo that doesn't suck?

Just FYI, the typical formats that a quailty logo is liekly to be saved in are NOT web image formats. A professional designer knows these things.
 

hjo3

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Originally posted by: notfred
Just FYI, the typical formats that a quailty logo is liekly to be saved in are NOT web image formats. A professional designer knows these things.
The JPEG/GIF image is just the one we want to see to judge the submission. It's not the same file(s) that we'd expect to be submitted by the winner. Please read the first post completely before asking questions.
 

yobarman

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Originally posted by: notfred
You can afford to purchase in in-house lab, surgical laser, x-ray machine, and other high tech tools, but can't spend $300 on paying an actual designer to come up with a logo that doesn't suck?

Just FYI, the typical formats that a quailty logo is liekly to be saved in are NOT web image formats. A professional designer knows these things.

I completely agree. These "contests" should be banned. They're nothing more than getting labor as cheap as possible while a lot of people waste their time. web designers need to unionize haha.
 

DaveSimmons

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Originally posted by: hjo3
Originally posted by: notfred
Just FYI, the typical formats that a quailty logo is liekly to be saved in are NOT web image formats. A professional designer knows these things.
The JPEG/GIF image is just the one we want to see to judge the submission. It's not the same file(s) that we'd expect to be submitted by the winner. Please read the first post completely before asking questions.
He was referring to using 1.5 mp bitmaps for the final image. I'm a code monkey but even I know the image should be in a vector format (eps or ai) instead of bitmap, since print work is ultrahigh resolution and the image will need to be scaled to different sized without scaling artifacts.

If you want your contest taken seriously you might guarantee the money will be paid, and use a neutral party to act as escrow. So many of these contests end badly that the people here are hesitant to invest any time.

But really, why not spend $300-600 for a professional logo?