Mudita Massage

You all are so amazingly talented! You are making my decision impossibly difficult. I have really enjoyed watching your creativity unfold before my eyes. I have learned a ton through the process. Thank you.

Format... At the end I will need the designs in an ai format and would like tiff files of the image separate from the text.

David, the non profit guy from Austin, said: "i like the ones in the little boxes, as they would print better and i can even imagine you making decals or bumper stickers. i think the box helps frame the image, which will make for more clarity. i would avoid the fancier, more cursive fonts because they are harder to read, and go with the boxier fonts. so i prefer the top-let box or either of the two bottom boxes. i have no preference beyond that. i have gained some experience recently working with logos, like the new one for CWA, and it does help to have a frame i think (which our new one lacks) and to have a color scheme that allows for grayscaling on printed materials, with a clear font."

What is a top-let box ? No cursive fonts? Why wasn't all this stated ...in the begining before all the work was done?

Sorry. I'm not sure what a top let box is. The comment above was a comment from one of my friends, David a non profit guy from Austin. The feedback is written in quotation marks. Though I have a preference for fonts that are easy to read, especially when writing an unfamiliar word like Mudita, I am not eliminating cursive fonts across the board.

Here's some feedback from David, a Portland Massage Therapist in training: "#18012 I like the Japaneses maple leaves (or reminiscent of)......was thinking about using those myself, except green or purple. "t" morphing into branch, does make it look like "f"....yes you can figure it out from website name below, but you shouldn't have to work that hard, needs to be instantaneous recognition of the word keywords in red feel weird to me......but this is a very personal choice.......red to me brings up the idea of heat, or blood.......that's just me. _________________________________________ #18009 jennyb really seems to like rounded corners....you do, and I do........but I only do if all four corners are rounded, not just two. feels unbalanced to me otherwise. - like the font! - tag line slightly darker blue? - consider evenly-matched-in-height horizontal color bars, across top and bottom? with tagline as is, but floating on top of thicker gray color bar at bottom, for increased contrast? __________________________________________ #18096 like the alternating colors in tagline, like the verbs being the darker of the words (which is why I like it more than #18094) __________________________________________ #17775 love this! like that the tree is NOT coming from any of the letters tag line: black doesn't feel quite right; guess I could buy red here, despite my reservations about red in this case for some reason, I don't like the fat end of the branch starting immediately left to the base of the leading "M".........like, it would maybe feel better if the branch started about halfway up the height of the "M", instead? ___________________________________________ #18039 eh. do NOT like the backwards-D (or is that small "d"?) forming the base of the plant. yuck. ___________________________________________ #18079 don't like same color tree branch next to "M" ----- makes branch seem like a leading letter, confusing to the eye for a second **on the other hand** feel colors of leaves should also be different from letters, too.....which would mean 3 colors not crazy about font(s) in word "massage".........especially the "m" ___________________________________________ #18077 don't like branch coming from "t".....looks kinda weak, pitiful in this case ___________________________________________ #18142 really like this, even with the leaves matching "Mudita Massage"......maybe because better scale between leaves and letters? ___________________________________________ #18051 a good one......but still not crazy about "m, s, s, g".......g looks too "stabby" or something, sorta like a "q", although you get "g" from context ____________________________________________ #17946 like the bottom one.....the colors, the plant........tag line seems readable, but you didn't like, right? - top design makes me think of a brain......a little offputting ____________________________________________ #17990 love those colors together! ____________________________________________ #17896 - 17897 font looks like a horror movie! like bloody fingers dragging down a wall.........please, no. ____________________________________________ #18253 ........think this person is onto something.........but why? not sure the appeal. ____________________________________________ #17801 like the top version better (more contrast)........great design! ____________________________________________ upartgraphics: none of their designs grab me, specifically.......but if you decide to go with a dark-background, I love the lighting effect they achieved by having the perimeter super-dark, and then fading into a more definite color at the center.....i love that! and would consider it in my own card, which is probably going to have a green and/or purple color scheme.........."

I will be making my final decision in the next couple of hours... Thank you everyone for participating in my contest. Your talent and creativity has blown me away! I truly appreciate all your time, effort and patience over these past ten days. If any of you are in or have plans to visit the Portland area, I would like to offer you 1/2 off a massage, as my way of saying thank you for all your hard work. (www.muditamassage.com ) Also, I wish you lots of success in your future contests. Happy 2009! Kathryn

Congratulations Jenny! Your design is beautiful and very fitting. ;)

Congrats!

Thank you Linda and LogoMotives - and thank you Kathryn! It's been a blast. What a talented group of designers you all are! :) Jenny B