Business Logo for Ironclad Systems, LLC

Ironclad Systems

Contest Holder wmckee1986 ?

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101

Prize Money

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Industry: Information Technology Logo

Contest Launched: Mar 25, 2011

Selected: 1 winning design from 101 concepts

Winning Design by: psychoteck

Close Date: Apr 01, 2011

Concept #83

Awarded as a winner

#61

#55

#53

#39

#38

#16

#69

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#60

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#56

#42

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#26

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#14

#11

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#72

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#70

#65

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Creative Brief

Project name

Business Logo for Ironclad Systems, LLC

Design Text

Ironclad Systems

Tagline

Computer and Network Build, Install, and Repair

Include this tagline in my logo.

Describe who/what this design is about

This is for a logo that will be used on the website, business cards, and headers of official company documents. We work with small businesses and residential sector building, installing, and repairing computers and networks. We want the design to be professional, eye catching, and memorable. We would like the colors and tones to match our website's template: http://www.ironcladsystems.biz/ without the blue colors (we have yet to remove that and the template Mcube Solutions logo, we are looking for a website designer and DO NOT want our logo to match the one on the template). We are a small business in Des Moines, Iowa with aspirations to open offices in Las Vegas, Nevada and Florida.

Industry type

Information Technology

What kind of design are you looking for?

Symbolic

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

Cutting-Edge
Unique/Creative
Sophisticated
Modern
Industry Oriented
Serious

What colors would you like?

Darker tones, grayscales, and maybe some creative alternatives would be ideal. Varying shades of grey will work as well. http://www.ironcladsystems.biz/ is our basic design except for the blue which will be taken out completely.

How many colors do you want in your design?

not sure

Do you have any additional suggestions or ideas?

We are open to creative and original ideas outside of what we have suggested.

Here is our original art for our old logo: http://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free-vector/5547-heraldry-shield
We made it grayscale, took out the star and lines within the shield, and put Ironclad Systems in calligraphy in lieu of Sample Text. We would like to see some examples or spin offs using the shield and some of the artist's own ideas.

We are unsure if we should include our tagline or not due to its length possibly making it difficult to make a proper logo.

We can provide a basic copy of the old shield on request, but it will need to be cleaned up and have background color spills removed. We lost all of our old logos except the art (it was available from the website still) in a fire so we are starting all over and are willing to try out a new image!

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March 31, 2011 3:51 PM
wmckee1986
Project Holder

#61 is almost exactly what we want! #67 is very good as well, but can you make it more unique? Thanks to everyone who submitted designs, this is getting to be a tough decision!

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March 30, 2011 3:42 PM
wmckee1986
Project Holder

#38 and #39 are excellent, but can you make them more unique? Maybe some variations? Thank you!

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March 30, 2011 3:31 PM
wmckee1986
Project Holder

#53 and #55, these are excellent, can we see some variations of these? Thanks to everyone btw, a lot of excellent designs are making this into a hard decision.

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March 27, 2011 10:58 PM
wmckee1986
Project Holder

#23, #24, #25, and #26 we like your 23 and 26 more than the other two. Can we see some variations of #26? #27 - #30 We need something more unique that stands out and grabs the viewer's attention.

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March 26, 2011 5:43 PM
wmckee1986
Project Holder

#22 looks to sci-fi, we would like to appear to be professional especially for our targeted audience of baby boomers.

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March 26, 2011 5:41 PM
wmckee1986
Project Holder

#19 and #21 seem to computer graphic, needs to be more realistic. But I do like the concept you have going for the I and S in the shield.

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March 26, 2011 5:40 PM
wmckee1986
Project Holder

#18 seems to simple, needs to be more unique.

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March 26, 2011 5:37 PM
wmckee1986
Project Holder

#14, #15, #16, and #17 have decent shields, but I would like to see a more unique shield if possible. Out of the four, #14 sticks out. The font, coloring, and elongated R of Ironclad Systems looks awesome. Can you try some different representations of ICS in the shield? Thanks!

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March 26, 2011 5:32 PM
wmckee1986
Project Holder

#12 and #13 we need a more realistic in appearance shield, less computer graphic in appearance. Try to make it look like actual iron or metal.

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March 26, 2011 5:29 PM
wmckee1986
Project Holder

#10 and #11 can you use Ironclad Systems as a banner above, beneath, or both and put some sort of symbolic representation of the words such as ICS or IS?

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March 25, 2011 7:42 PM
wmckee1986
Project Holder

x3mart, your style is very modern, that is good, and very masculine. Can you perhaps try some different shields, but keep the same? Thanks!

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March 25, 2011 7:40 PM
wmckee1986
Project Holder

#6 your lettering in the shield is good, can you try some darker colors or grey? Also can you try a more masculine font for the banner? Thank you.

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March 25, 2011 7:39 PM
wmckee1986
Project Holder

#4, #5, and #7 you are going in the right direction. The shield looks more like a police officer's badge, can you change it to more closely resemble the shield in the upload? Also, could you explain to me the inside of the shield represents? Thanks!

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March 25, 2011 7:36 PM
wmckee1986
Project Holder

Quick news, we took down the website so we could switch from Wordpress to Joomla, we should have a new template similar to the old one soon. Refer to #7 for what it looked like.

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March 25, 2011 5:29 PM
wmckee1986
Project Holder

Take a look at the uploaded art in the 'Read Brief' section for an example of the caliber and design we are looking for first. If you need more examples of similar logos check out the following 3: http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/51443 http://www.odigy.com/mucho/identity/sentiel/ http://creattica.com/logos/big-city-barbers/32316

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March 25, 2011 5:25 PM
wmckee1986
Project Holder

#2 and #3 We need something that looks less cartoon like, more realistic like an actual shield.

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March 25, 2011 4:47 PM
wmckee1986
Project Holder

@#1 We want to avoid logos with computers and affiliated parts, it is far too over used and abused on the internet. We want to focus on the iron part of our name indicating that we will make their systems strong and protected. Check out our old art that we uploaded on here.

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Contest Winner	Concept # 83	$ 300

Business Logo for Ironclad Systems, LLC

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