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What sort of feedback are you looking for? Basically I’m marking the designs that appeal to me with four stars. What seems to be floating to the top are those submissions which creatively incorporate the suggestion of a guitar into the word Nashville, so that “Nashville” is what is being said, rather than “music”, which seems to be what the submissions with independent guitars say to me.

There is also one submission with a very creative skyline in a diamond shape that I have marked as four stars.

I see this is a public discussion, and a couple people have asked for feedback. I don’t know what you all see as designers. Can you see the designs I’m marking four star? If so that should give you an idea of what is appealing to me.

So far the submissions that I’m liking the best are those that incorporate the “suggestion” of a guitar that is integrated into the word “nashville”. Most have abstract guitar body curves on the top or bottom (or both) of the word. Some have suggestions of a guitar neck as well.

I have asked a couple of the submitters to make the headstock from an illustratoin of a RJ45 plug, so that the final design suggests a guitar to the eye, but the headstock is actually an ethernet plug. This makes a good connection between our location in music city and what we do.

There is one skyline submission that I also like. It put the nashville skyline into a diamond shape for the graphic part of the logo.

Again, I don’t know if you can see all the submissions or not on the designer side of this, as this is my first time using design crowd.

Hopefully designers will read this feedback. There are two trends that I’m seeing frequently that do not appeal to me, so I’m trying to help by warning you away from these trends :-)

1. My original description talks about the “suggestion” of a guitar, but many submissions are featuring stand alone guitars. When the guitar is standalone, it suggests “music” to me. When the guitar is more of a suggestion made by shapes and lines and is integrated into the word Nashville, that says “Nashville, music city” to me, rather than just “music”. We are not a music company, so I’m not trying to say “music”, I’m trying to say “Nashville” by using the suggestion of a musical instrument. I hope that helps.

2. Many submissions have incorporated BOTH of the suggested elements, a guitar AND the nashville skyline. None of these have appealed to me. Well, not entirely true, one of them did a very good job of incorporating the skyline inside the body of a guitar, but it ultimately fell victim to the problem described in #1 above.

Again, I hope this is helpful!

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