smeff needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 99 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
Intern Profits
We are entrepreneurs who have had a tremendous amount of success using interns in our business. We are creating an information product about how companies can get interns to work for them. We need a logo and branding help
Entrepreneurs, small business owners, small business owners looking to find educated, free or low cost labor by hiring interns from colleges & universities
We need a horizontally oriented logo, NOT square or round.
Needs to be rendered in both black & white, AND color
Needs to be able to be used in smaller sizes as well as print
We would also like a favicon.
We may distribute a binder of information, meaning that we would need a binder cover, plus binder spine image as well.
We would also like the image to be able to used on the following following:
CD/DVD
CD/DVD cover
Book cover
Competitive sites include http://www.Enternships.com and http://www.UrbanInterns.com although we don’t necessarily like their particular logos.
Examples of logos that we like (however, don’t feel like you have to mimic these logos, these are just examples of logos that we like) include:
Puma
Microsoft
Fedex
Facebook
Twitter
Coca-Cola
Newsweek
MSNBC
CNN
YouTube
FILA (although this is square, remember, we want horizontal based)
IBM
Levi’s (although this is vertical, remember, we want horizontal based)
Wikipedia (although this is square, remember, we want horizontal based)
Land Rover
Dunkin’ Donuts
Diesel
Sony VAIO
Illy (although this is square, remember, we want horizontal based)
Discovery Channel
NorthFace
As far as colors, we are open to anything, just no pastels.
For format we would like images in .jgp, .png and .gif
Please submit your best work, and we look forward to evaluating it!
****************UPDATE********
We would like to see the a concept where the "I" in Intern looks like a diploma, and the "S" in Profits looks like a dollar sign.
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