Freewind Hosting needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 110 designs submitted by 29 freelance designers.
VirtuaHost
VirtuaHost, a division of Freewind Hosting (http://www.freewhosting.com) is a website hosting company providing both businesses and individuals with virtual private server hosting. Our product range offers users dynamically scalable Virtual Servers that have the ability to grow on demand - meeting the ongoing needs of the customer.
Our target audience consists of website developer and companies requiring virtual private hosting services; demographic predominantly male aged 21-60 who are employed in web design or development companies.
To portray the message behind ‘VirtuaHost’ in a modern manner while maintaining a clean, professional, sophisticated look. The logo needs to be very identifiable and catches the eye immediately. It should not contain too many details and should be easy to remember and associate with the business objectives, i.e, by looking at the logo, one should roughly understand what the business is about.
Emotive Perception:
Reliable, Dynamic, Control, Flexible, Scalable, Efficient, Professional, Responsive, Instant, Snappy, Resourceful
Primary Imagery:
"Virtua" (short hand of virtual) - "temporarily simulated or extended"
"Host" - concept of taking responsibility of, and to manage the customers website/data
Logo 'Icon':
Please no images of computers or robots. The icon must attempt to portray the emotive perception keywords.
Colours:
Page Background: #323232
Logo Colours:
Mixture of white (#ffffff), orange (#f26722), pale orange (#ff9900). Please feel free to make words seperate colours if you feel this is needed. Logo should be able to reverse on black and white respectively.
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