Barking Dog Fitness - Logo design

Contest Prize Guaranteed ( )
(Contest has received 40 or more submissions)

Contest Holder Participation ( )
(Has ranked designs or posted comments daily)

  • Contest Prize Amount: $200.00
  • Submitted Entries: 278
  • Contest Ends In: Completed
  • Participating Designers: 29
  • Contest Views: 1121
Hide/Show Contest Description

The Contest Brief

Contest Holder Name:  rockymaxie

Company Name: Barking Dog Fitness

Company Slogan: Get Your Bark On!

Description and What We Do: Barking Dog Fitness is a gym exclusively for dogs. People bring their dogs to work out on our dog treadmills, pilates and other types of fitness equipment (for dogs), swim in our indoor warm water pool, and more. Some goals are to lose weight, build strength and endurance, expend pent-up energy, improve behavior, provide socialization opportunities, and in general help dogs keep their youthful level of energy and playfulness as they age. The logo should portray the youthful exuberance and playfulness of a puppy, excitement, movement, health, fitness, strength, endurance of the dog. We would like the graphic to somehow depict the dog having fun working out, while also playing on the word "barking". Must convey the feeling that this is something the owner must do for their dog immediately. Should be able to tell exactly what the business is (a health and fitness club for dogs) just by looking at the logo. Don't want anything comical.

Industry Type: Pets and Animals

Top Three Things To Communicate Through Our Logo Design:

#1 Exactly what the business is

#2 Professional, yet playful and fun. Expertise of the staff, upscale facility.

#3 Eye catching, unique and positive

Our Target Audience:

Above average income and education level, people (men and women) who are pressed for time or ability to exercise their dogs the way they need or want to. Professionals of varied ages, people who value a healthy lifestyle, all locations.

We Like These Colors:

prefer stronger colors, no pink, no dull colors, no grey

Design Preference Sliders:
Masculine 
 Feminine
Subdued 
 Bright
Playful 
 Serious
Simple 
 Complex
Classic 
 Modern
Common 
 Exotic
Quiet 
 Loud
Economical 
 Expensive
Grey Black White 
 Colorful
Elegant 
 Sporty
Young 
 Mature

Design Styles We Would Like To See:

Pictorial Mark

An image or shape that is easy to recognize to represent your business

Our Design Will Be Used On:

Web, Print, Signage and Billboards, Imprinted Promotional Products

Contest Attachments:

Contest Entries

Contest Comments

rockymaxie
 United States
Buyer

Joined: Dec 27, 2012

Posted On: Jan 03, 2013

Most of the designs with the tag line in the graphic makes the tag line very hard to read. We would appreciate it if you can remove the tag line from the graphic and put it outside - either below or beside the graphic, so it's legible. As an idea, perhaps use the primary colors of the graphic - for example one color for "Get Your" and "on!" and another color for "Bark". We want the tag line to be very noticeable and prominent and so far in all the designs, it's not.

rockymaxie
 United States
Buyer

Joined: Dec 27, 2012

Posted On: Jan 02, 2013

New submissions and new rankings! Time is running out to submit!

rockymaxie
 United States
Buyer

Joined: Dec 27, 2012

Posted On: Jan 02, 2013

We have new submissions and have new rankings. Please have a look as we are getting closer to what we are looking for. We are still looking for exciting ideas that clearly depict the fact that we are a fitness gym for dogs.

rockymaxie
 United States
Buyer

Joined: Dec 27, 2012

Posted On: Jan 01, 2013

There are some good ideas here, would like more unique submissions that clearly show we are a dog fitness gym.

rockymaxie
 United States
Buyer

Joined: Dec 27, 2012

Posted On: Dec 30, 2012

We've gone through and eliminated the ones we don't feel depict the concept of a dog gym, or are too macho, or have colors or fonts we don't care for. We don't want to limit the focus to a dog on a treadmill, since we believe that's too limiting in our gym. Our gym has a bunch of equipment besides treadmills, and has an indoor warm water pool. So we want a logo that shows a dog wanting to go to the gym, trying to tell "mom or dad" - let's go NOW!

rockymaxie
 United States
Buyer

Joined: Dec 27, 2012

Posted On: Dec 28, 2012

Thanks for the submissions to date. We've ranked the one we like the best so far as #1, but it's been difficult to rank the others in a specific order at this time. Our #1 goal is to make sure the logo clearly conveys the fact that we are an upscale fitness gym for dogs.

Admin

Joined: Jan 01, 1970

Posted On: Dec 27, 2012

Welcome and Thank You for Choosing LogoContest.com!

Here are some helpful hints to make sure you get the most out of our site, and your contest.

 

1. Please rank your submissions or post general comments a minimum of 1 time per day while your contest is running. This is required should you want to request an extension to your contest and will produce the best results from our designers.

2. Once your contest receives 40 design concepts, your prize amount will become "Guaranteed".

3. Please make the most out of our messaging and comment systems.

a) Place general comments on this main contest page to give all of the designers your preferences and what you would like to see or not see.

b) Clicking on any designers submssion will bring up a page of all submissions by that designer with an option to post private comments pertaining only to his work. (Only the contest Holder and that designer can view and post to this page)

c) Clicking on the designer username under a submission will allow you to send a completely private message to that specific designer.

4. Please "Eliminate" only those logo designs that you feel have no chance of winning your contest. (Be aware that eliminating everything may discourage participation from the designers.)

5. Please rank the designs 1 to 10 and there are also options to rank Elements you like, Colors you like, and Fonts you like. This will help guide the designers toward the design that you are looking for. For the best variety of designs, try not to keep the same design ranked #1 for an extended time as this may result in copying of that design.

6. We require that you do not ask one Designer to use elements or concepts from another Designer. The general rule is that, if a Designer was the first to use and submit the idea in one of their designs, they essentially own that concept or idea for the remainder of the contest. We will remove any deisgns that use copied concepts. Requests or ideas you have put in your Contest Brief or posted as contest attachments are fair game and open to everyone. Concepts that are considered obvious will also be fair game, for example: a dog & cat for a pet hospital, shopping bag for an e-commerce company, a tooth for a dentist, initials for a lawyer, etc.

7. Once your contest ends and is in judging mode, any revisions to designs that you request from the designers can be emailed to support AT(@) logocontest.com and we will enter them into your contest for you.

 

Discussion Guidelines:

1. Designers and Contest Holders please always be respectful of each other, we all have the same goal.

2. Please do not criticize any design publicly, these discussions should only be held in private.

3. Designers may not post any external links to any designs.

4. Please do not ask a contest holder to view your designs or discuss any other designs.

5. Designers can not discuss copied designs on the contest pages and may submit a Logo Dispute to the Admin only.

 

Our team at LogoContest.com as well as our designers will make sure you are 100% satisfied and want you to leave here with a design that you love!

Please recommend us to your friends and business associates for all of their logo design and web page design needs.