Rental Property Investor · Oakland, CA · Member since 2011 · 3k+ posts · 2k+ votes
Hey BP Colleagues!
Does my logo suck? Please check out I'm having designed, vote, and give me feedback!! You can influence the best logo now! I still have time to do edits with the designers also..
*This logo below sucks, right!? Help me pick a better one!*
@Omi C., @Anja Brey, @Shane Pearlman, @Arlen Chou, @Johnson H., @Account Closed, what do you businesspeople think? How about some strangers that don't know me, from Denver, Seattle, & Austin? You're a bunch of techies with good design know-how, right? Anyone from New York City, Miami, Boston that could chime in?
Disclosure: Feedback does not give you any legal ownership of the final product and will be considered wonderful free advice from awesome colleagues on the site! Ill buy a beer for the person with the best advice! ;)
I use them for the work I do A/B testing and conversion rate optimization, I'm in no way affiliated with them.
Anyway, you can do a free trial, take the jpegs from 99 designs, and have complete strangers vote on which is best. I think that's a pretty good way of getting people's "visceral" gut reactions to it, if you're interested.
Any other awesome folks in San Francisco, New York City, Austin, Boston, Seattle, San Diego, Los Angeles or Sacramento please chime in on this and vote (click link above).
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
I will share the results of the polling on this thread..
@J. Martin - I haven't had the pleasure of hanging out with either @Shane Pearlman or Peter Chester. As far as round two of your design challenge, I cannot see the designs. They want me to login. Hmmmm. Good luck though.
Agree with @Shane Pearlman #152 then #72, #152 the bed is the main focus of the logo and the house is secondary, that's how it should be. I'm hoping whoever makes it to your site already understands you are a rental business and that they are looking for a house to rent, the bed portrays what kind of rental business you are running.
I can't vote either, I have to log in. But I could see about 7 designs on the original link.
My comments: None of these will scale well, meaning when you shrink them down on a business card or an icon they will be an indistinguishable blob.
Second, they are all too literal. A house with a bed in it. Looks like a hotel. Consider something more abstract. Maybe use the text from #34 but in a more unique font, and leave off the house and bed. If you insist, take the top bar of the F and sweep it upward and then down in a roof shape.
Sorry, I don't agree with any of them.
And I do realize that while I'm telling you to be abstract, my logo is quite literal. But subtlety is overrated in the money business. :-)