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Logo Design Brief
Our company exists to enable the father of a child to “be the best dad you can be.” We offer a members-only website to connect like-minded dads together as well as give them the tools they seek to best manage their finite time so they can spend more quality time with their children.
The mascot of our company is the Penguin. The penguin is the “king” of fatherly child rearing in the animal kingdom, with multiple examples of how the father penguin stays behind to care for the egg while the mother heads out to seek food. This idea of ultimate devotion to their young typifies our target audience.
We desire an image of a father penguin caring for an egg or young penguin to be the logo. The designer is, however, free to implement a design that only has the father penguin if you feel that this is the best representation.
One concept that we thought of: A side view of the father penguin with his head looking down towards his child penguin, with the child penguin facing his father, head looking up, with the child penguin close to the father penguin to symbolize that he is being "nurtured" by the father. See if you can play with this concept to build upon the concept of paternalism. See uploaded file for a conceptual example.
Updates
One concept that we thought of: A side view of the father penguin with his head looking down towards his child penguin, with the child penguin's head looking up, with the child penguin close to the father penguin to symbolize that he is being "nurtured" by the father. See if you can play with this concept to build upon the concept of paternalism.
Added Thursday, October 31, 2013
Project Deadline Extended
Reason: We are in the home stretch of design downselect. Thank you to all of you who have submitted designs!
For those who have not received feedback by now, your design is most likely not in the final few selection criteria.
For those of you who have received feedback, please get us your best, last iterations based on our feedback and we will make our final decision.
Thank you!
Added Sunday, November 10, 2013
Target Market(s)
The primary market we service is a young father in his mid twenties to mid thirties who is proud to be a hand’s-on, involved father.
Industry/Entity Type
Business
Logo Text
Papa Portal
Logo styles of interest
Pictorial/Combination Logo
A real-world object (optional text)
Look and feel
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Bold
Playful
Serious
Traditional
Modern
Personable
Professional
Feminine
Masculine
Colorful
Conservative
Economical
Upmarket
Requirements
Must have
- Our first choice is a single color logo. The color choice is blue with an RGB code of 67 74 169. The designer has the freedom to implement a second complementary color, orange, with an RGB code of either 178 141 0 or 255 202 0. However, if the designer chooses to implement a dual color scheme, the logo must still be useable in monochrome instances.
Please ensure the image format is 2D vector, and that the logo is scalable to be small enough to fit onto a business card and large enough to fit onto a tradeshow booth.
We are requesting two variants of the logo: flat, black-and-white, and image only. The flat version will use the one or two colors decided upon by the designer. The black-and-white version shall be a grey-scale version.
Nice to have
- The designer is free to pick the specific variant of the Penguin with sufficient artistic freedom to decide how to best implement the penguin father and egg/child (surreal, real, abstract, etc).
Designer has the freedom to decide spacing, location, orientation of penguin image to company name.
As best as possible, the logo aspect ratio should either be wide or square, but not tall. If the aspect ratio is wide, we desire no greater than a 2:1 aspect ratio.
Designer is free to suggest / use any font, subject to the requirement that it be royalty-free.
Please be cognizant of the target audience, i.e. fathers, therefore the font should tend towards sharp, clean, minimalistic, and bold.
If possible, it would be nice to allow the Penguin imagery to be separatable from the text in the logo.