Business Logo for Deft Digits Guitar Lessons

Deft Digits Guitar Lessons

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Industry: Music Logo

Contest Launched: Nov 27, 2011

Selected: 1 winning design from 60 concepts

Winning Design by: aurelizza

Close Date: Dec 07, 2011

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Creative Brief

Project name

Business Logo for Deft Digits Guitar Lessons

Design Text

Deft Digits Guitar Lessons

Tagline

Seattle Guitar Lessons

Include this tagline in my logo.

Yes

Describe who/what this design is about

This will be the company logo for my guitar lesson business, Deft Digits Guitar Lessons, located in Seattle, WA.

http://deftdigits.com

I teach acoustic and electric guitar lessons to kids and adults, all skill levels, specializing in rock, pop, folk, blues, and jazz. I teach some video lessons via Skype, but most of my business comes from in-person lessons in Seattle. The main feature that sets me apart from my competitors is my love of technology. I constantly use software tools during lessons, I've been blogging and using social media for years, and I program music-related web apps for my students.

I'd like my logo to have "Deft Digits" as the main stylized font, and "Guitar Lessons" less emphasized. (Depending on the design, I might ask to see "Seattle Guitar Lessons" instead.) I'd like to have a symbolic aspect that alludes to the guitar and/or Seattle. The standard iconic image of Seattle is the Space Needle. Here's a messy example of a logo that incorporates both: http://www.seattleslackkeyfestival.com/archives/assets/images/Seattle_SlackKey-LOGO.jpg. I realize it might be impossible to use a Space Needle rendering while keeping it simple and clean. Simplicity is more important, as is the guitar element. But if you can come up with a tasteful, simple symbol that says "Seattle" and "guitar," I will do a back flip.

I'll use the logo on my website, business cards, guitar picks, flyers, letterhead. It needs to scale well to small sizes and convert well to black and white.

Industry type

Music

What kind of design are you looking for?

Logo Type

Symbolic

How would you describe the effect in your logo:(Check all that apply)

Cutting-Edge
Unique/Creative
Clean/Simple
Modern
Industry Oriented
Local/Neighborhood

What colors would you like?

I don't have any exact color requirements. If the new logo works well with the existing colors at http://deftdigits.com, great. If not, I can easily tweak the site's colors. I seem to favor dark red, like a cherry wood, as the primary logo color. I imagine wood-tones or Earth-tones, but feel free to follow your vision for the other requirements described above. I'd also like to see some ideas with Seattle-associated blues and greens. (Seattle's major sports teams, the Seahawks, Mariners, and Sounders, all use similar colors. Avoid the obnoxious neon green of the Sounders.)

How many colors do you want in your design?

Do you have any additional suggestions or ideas?

One of the most successful guitar teachers in Seattle is http://www.heartwoodguitar.com. That's the best guitar instruction logo I've seen. It even scales to a 16x16 favicon, cropping down to the guitar symbol. The owner is a friend of mine, and he operates in the same region I do, so I'd like to avoid any resemblance between our logos.

A few other guitar logos, just for ideas, but the results are not really what I want:
http://redpelicanmusic.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/redpelicanmusic/images/header-logo.png
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/Guitar_Center_logo.svg
http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/files/images/nyga_logo.jpg
http://www.prlog.org/10763632-g4v-logo.jpg
http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/50276_50486691642_4904447_n.jpg
http://www.sgcreativedesigns.co.uk/images/guitar.png
http://dropsoul.com/uploads/images/Gallery/logos/tampa-guitar-school.jpg

Here's a Space Needle-based logo that I really like: http://seattle-seo.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/seo-seattle-logo.gif

More Space Needle logos, just for ideas, all to complex for me:
http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/sports/images/soccer/pinback-sounders.JPG
http://www.flickr.com/photos/idn8tiv/3082109772/
http://www.adventuresdesign.com/portfolio_new/AV_logos_seattlegold.jpg
http://www.eventparadise.com/newsletters/14/photos/44820/spotlight_row_3_4_2/portrait3.jpg
http://www.originalspaperart.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Edison_Seattle_Logo.jpg
http://www.identitydubai.com/portfolio2/logos/31seattle.jpg
http://itstimeforbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/NAAAP-Seattle_Logo.jpg