Logo Design Contest

Surefire Gun Safes

by fryguy173

Contest received 117 entries and the contest holder has awarded a winner.

Winning entry by designbuddha

Congratulations to winner designbuddha ! They were awarded the contest prize of $350.00

Discussion:

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fryguy173 Contest Holder
I can say that in general, we're not that big on having a pistol as the main image message. The main reason being, is that we want it to be clear that we're selling SAFES, not the guns themselves. If the image is a pistol, at first glance it looks like we're selling guns. We are also not going to ONLY sell gun safes, but wall safes, fire safes, and others. We'd rather the image be more "safe" oriented, rather than a gun itself. We want someone who sees the logo image to know immediately what we offer. The words of our company name should just confirm that idea. So, in general the winning logo PROBABLY won't be one that focuses on a gun image, but one that mainly focuses on a safe. A gun can be part of the image in a secondary manner, but we're leaning heavily toward a safe being the primary image. Thanks for the submissions everybody... Keep them coming!
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fryguy173 Contest Holder
In case it helps you all, here is the URL to our biggest competitor. You may be able to get an idea of the types of safes we'll be carrying. http://www.gunsafes.com/
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fryguy173 Contest Holder
Or maybe even some safe images to spawn ideas, or work as a basis for your image work.
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fryguy173 Contest Holder
As I look at these, I'm realizing more and more that since our website header space is restricted -- we will be leaning heavily toward images to the left of the text. Although the image above the text looks good, for practical purposes -- having the image to the left makes more sense.
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manzdesign Creative
any feedback ratings on the way??
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fryguy173 Contest Holder
Sorry... Was out of town last weekend camping. Will do ratings in a couple of hours.
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fryguy173 Contest Holder
Ok, just posted a bunch of ratings and comments. Hopefully this helps you all. Also, please don't take any of my comments as personal. These are all better work than I could do personally, that's for sure. My comments are only in an effort to help guide as to what we're feeling when we look at the logo.
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fryguy173 Contest Holder
Wow... What a great group of entries... We'll look over them over the next day and select a winner. Good job to everybody! So many great submissions!