Logo contest – first drafts of logo submissions

As you will recall, thanks to an offer from LogoInn, I was able to offer one lucky reader/company a free logo.  After accepting entries for about a week, we eventually selected Colfax Main Street as our winner.

We're going to go through the entire process here on the blog, so everyone can learn along.  Here's what's happened so far.

• We talked about 5 tips for designing a new logo
• Announced the contest and gave the rules
• Shared a creative brief, with questions you should ask yourself before you start a new logo process
• Colfax Main Street responded to the creative brief…and we shared their answers

So today, we're going to take a look at LogoInn's first round of logo options.  I'm going to reserve my comments for a day or so, to see what you think. 

A reminder — critiquing and asking questions is perfectly fine.  Being rude and getting personal…not so much.  Please be honest, objective and share your opinion.  But be respectful.

Okay….remembering that the entire town was built around their history of supplying mineral water to many bottling companies and visitors — let's see what LogoInn has done.

You can click on the images to see them a little larger.

What do you think?  Remember, these need to reduce down to business cards, lapel pins and who knows what else.  They also need to blow up to outdoor signage, vehicle designs and work in all media from the web to traditional print.

Once we get the final logo design done/selected — we'll delve into color.