padac96 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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With Me
I am an electronic music producer/DJ who has just started getting booked for shows in club venues and am in need of a professional logo to display on event posters/social media pages etc. as well as during my performance. This means the logo will have to be resized regularly and printed on various material. I am no expert on image formatting so I will take any and all file formats you can give me (SVG, PNG, TIFF, JPEG).
My musical sub-genre being a more tribal sounding type of trap music (if that is of any help, imagine someone took the soundtracks from your favourite fantasy movies and used that influence to make dance music. I have gone into more detail in the "communicate to designer" section). My target audience is generally younger adults who attend these kinds of shows (you could call many of them ravers I suppose but that is just a portion of who may enjoy the type of music I attempt to create) as well as individuals with similar music tastes to myself. As I said mostly younger, more "liberal" adults who if they are like me enjoy fiction and adventure and are always daydreaming about things other than our regular day-to-day life in society. My next scheduled show is on June 9th and I will be very appreciative to have a logo a couple weeks prior to then.
The music I enjoy creating is very organic and celtic/primal sounding (think woodwind instruments, deep reverberating drums, wooden percussion, vocal chants, atmospheric sounds from nature). If that is too broad there is an artist named Krane from whom I draw great inspiration from if hearing his music will help you get an idea of the general sound I resonate with (Specific songs that I love if you plan on checking him out for reference being "Next World", "Hollow", and "Propane", to name a few. "Lotus Eater" by Mura Masa is also an excellent example). I myself also love celtic art and tattoos but do not have the skill to create my own.
In terms of the logo itself I have attached a couple basic sketches I came up with that I believe somewhat capture the basic feeling I am trying to portray however I am no art designer and they are not very good (The lines are uneven, the lettering is inconsistent, and the negative space feels wonky to me). It need not be a super intricate logo (more minimal as actually preferable but add to it as you see fit) the designs I have made are very rigid mostly because of my limited ability. I would like it to be only one solid colour/tone (Black or white). I have also attached a couple images from some artists who's logos express something along the lines I would like for my own logo, but these are just references. I do like the idea of the W and M being vertical reflections of each other to create a symbol but I have full faith in you using your artistic license to create something unique. Whether you choose to create a logo that contains all the letters of WithMe or create a symbol is up to you, I am open to all ideas and possibilities. In the end an organic, primal, historical feeling is what I am trying to express with my music.
As artists yourselves, I'm sure many (if not all of you) are similar to me in the respect that I am an emotional individual, and we use our craft as an outlet for these emotions, whether it be sadness from the hardships we all go through in life, or happiness and excitement from all the great things we experience. I have learned that sadness and pain can be a powerful tool in the creation of art, and I can imagine it could be fitting to have a logo that somewhat expresses that.
Please do not hesitate to message me with any questions or feedback and I will do my best to answer!
Thank you and I can't wait to see what you come up with!
Patrick
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