Design a Logo for my new company

Status: Closed
Prize: $80
Entries Received: 26
Winner: YOUMAZIGH

Winner

Contest Brief

Update: Obvious copies from the current top rated will be rejected. Obvious copies from well known logos (digital ocean, cloudflare, whatever) will be rejected (seriously?).

Hello everyone.

We're starting a web hosting business named Cloud Elástico and it is focused on bringing advanced cloud computing possibilities to small businesses and individuals (like automatic scaling, geographic redundancy and stuff). The fist version will be released within a few months and we'd like to have our old logo changed before that.

The attached file is just a sketch of what the logo should've been, unfortunately the designer I hired had some health issues and could not finished the job. At the time we needed a logo asap to use in a landing page and some greeting cards, so we used the preliminary low-res version anyway, but now we want it changed, as I said before.

About the name

As you can see the logo features the word Cloud(e) alone (and not Cloud Elástico), that's because we intend to use Cloude (or cloud-e) as a short for Cloud Elástico (btw, elástico means elastic in portuguese, as you might have guessed). We still want to do that but we're not sure if this should be featured in the logo, "Cloud Elástico" is much more descriptive and people seem to assimilate it better, so I guess there are at least 2 nice alternatives:

1) Make it "Cloud Elástico" but set "Cloud E" apart in some clever way (colors, entanglement, you name it). Just, please, don't be cheap about it...

OR

2) Make it 2 versions, a "contracted" one featuring Cloud(e) alone and a "stretched" one featuring Cloud Elástico whole.

About the drawing

There's absolutely no limitation to it, but the name kinda forces at least a hint of a cloud in the logo, right? Anyway, if you come up with something else, feel free to post it, surprises are welcome.

There's this idea I've had once, I imagined an outline of a cloud, going up and down, from left to right, very gently, then the outline would start to change shape, very smoothly, until it would not resemble a cloud anymore, but a spring (in a few words: the left half would ressemble a cloud, the right half would ressemble a spring. Smooth transition). Got it? Cloud... spring... elastic... It sounds dumb, I know, but it would make sense (in portuguese the noum comes first - and a horizontal flip in the image would get english covered). Anyway, this is just an idea I had (they tend to look better in my head than when executed). If any of you guys would like to give this a try, I'd appreciate it.

Still about the drawing

Make it have a meaning on its own: If I wanted to cut the name away and use only the drawing as an icon (In fact I really intend to do that), would it hold my company's identity on its own?

Avoid dumb analogies: make a google image search for "cloud company". A cloud and a network cable? No. A set of gears within a cloud? Hell, no. Avoid obviounsess too.

Simple: simple is good. The simpler the better.

About the tagline

We don't really need one. If you want to use "Hospedagem elástica na nuvem" as a placeholder, go ahead, but it will probably be changed later (I suppose the winner will be kind enough to make it match the rest of the logo and provide us with the fonts for future use).

Well, that's about it. Thanks a lot for reading this far (and apologies for have written this much). Good luck.

Recommended Skills

Winner

Post a Contest Like This

Employer Feedback

“Very good designer, answers quickly and well intentioned. Would hire again.”

fredsmelo, Brazil.

Public Clarification Board

johnleosamante
- 12 years ago
Ahw... too bad I was too late..
- 12 years ago
mohsinqasmani786
- 12 years ago
can you extend 1 day day more i want to work on this contest?
- 12 years ago
CompuSpecs
- 12 years ago
#147 something different
- 12 years ago
kentberdz
- 12 years ago
Please check #145, thanks,
- 12 years ago
YOUMAZIGH
- 12 years ago
How it was #143 Please ?
- 12 years ago
Contest Holder
- 12 years ago
I'm giving feedback on private message. THanks
- 12 years ago
kevinsrealm
- 12 years ago
check the new ones please
- 12 years ago
ROBOMAX1
- 12 years ago
please check thanks
- 12 years ago
YOUMAZIGH
- 12 years ago
Please check #109 . Thanks
- 12 years ago
mjmissano
- 12 years ago
Send me feedback on #136
- 12 years ago
kentberdz
- 12 years ago
Kindly check #134, thanks
- 12 years ago
ROBOMAX1
- 12 years ago
please check my private message thanks
- 12 years ago
ceebee21
- 12 years ago
Pls leave feedback on #126. Thanks :)
- 12 years ago
redvfx
- 12 years ago
Please check our entry 121
- 12 years ago
ManuelRz
- 12 years ago
Please check #114 . Thanks a lot.
- 12 years ago
YOUMAZIGH
- 12 years ago
Please check #100 . Thanks
- 12 years ago
View 2 more messages
1. Contest Holder
  - 12 years ago
  That won't work. It has to be something serious, it is an IT Enterprise, it has to pass an idea of seriousness.
  - 12 years ago
2. kevinsrealm
  - 12 years ago
  ok
  - 12 years ago
YOUMAZIGH
- 12 years ago
Please #103 . Thanks
- 12 years ago
Contest Holder
- 12 years ago
There's lots of useful feedback in the rejected entries (only now I noticed it would be better to post here). Anyway: lots of feedback there.
- 12 years ago
YOUMAZIGH
- 12 years ago
Please Check #99 . Thanks
- 12 years ago
YOUMAZIGH
- 12 years ago
Hi Sir. Please check #96 . Thanks
- 12 years ago
yogeshbadgire
- 12 years ago
Hello sir. Please check and leave feedback for #86. Thanks.
- 12 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 12 years ago
  I left feedback on the private messages, thank you a lot
  - 12 years ago
kartheekmanda
- 12 years ago
hai please see 64 entry
- 12 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 12 years ago
  Please check the private message. THanks for your effort
  - 12 years ago
ClewTechPM
- 12 years ago
please check #67it is reflect your services.
- 12 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 12 years ago
  Please check the private message. THanks for your effort
  - 12 years ago
yogeshbadgire
- 12 years ago
#37 is exact replica of the design appears in the following link:
http://www.cloudmedia.fr/
- 12 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 12 years ago
  yeah, it is, I rejected the entry. Thanks.
  - 12 years ago
theocracy7
- 12 years ago
one question can you sealed the contest for avoid designers copy concepts or design ?
- 12 years ago
View 1 more message
1. theocracy7
  - 12 years ago
  in that case is perfect thanks
  - 12 years ago
2. Contest Holder
  - 12 years ago
  you're welcome
  - 12 years ago
ARAVINDKPKMMS
- 12 years ago
pls check #24 !
- 12 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 12 years ago
  I commented privately. Thanks for the effort.
  - 12 years ago
Contest Holder
- 12 years ago
#6: thanks for your entry. The idea I had was more like an outline with smooth transition, your entry looks nice but it's too solid and with abrupt transition, not exactly what I had in mind. The spring also looks like an telephone cord, see, it won't pass the idea of "elastic"... thanks for your effort
- 12 years ago
1. PeleDeer
  - 12 years ago
  Check out new entry: #11
  - 12 years ago
2. Contest Holder
  - 12 years ago
  That's nice, only now the "elastic" half does not communicate "elastic" anymore (the last one was "too much" elastic, this one is "no elastic" at all LOL). But it's clean and simple, I like it
  - 12 years ago
Contest Holder
- 12 years ago
Guys, I'm sorry but if you post any entry that looks too much like the top rated entries I'll simply discard it. Feel free to come up with something new.
- 12 years ago
digitalmind1
- 12 years ago
plz check #10
- 12 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 12 years ago
  That's creative, to say the least, thanks for the effort to really communicate an idea. However, it communicates the idea of cicle or loop rather than elastic, dont you think?
  - 12 years ago
yogeshbadgire
- 12 years ago
I have one question. May I know if you want the name included in the logo itself or I may interest you in another layout like 'icon + text'?
- 12 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 12 years ago
  Hi, feel free to come with any layout, icon + text, text under icon, etc etc.
  - 12 years ago
ronalyncho
- 12 years ago
PLEASE CHECK #12
- 12 years ago
Contest Holder
- 12 years ago
#1 : Nice, looks very clean... what about a version with the whole name (Cloud Elástico)?
- 12 years ago