Design Chords Blog

Hello Everyone

We’d like to thank all the participating designers for their wonderful contribution to this pilot project. We were a little apprehensive how many design ideas will be submitted and if we’ll be able to get our word out in the creative community by just using the email medium. But result was much more promising than our expectation. We not only received 98 design proposals, but a lot of them were very unique and piece of great artwork.

Unfortunately we can pick only 1 winning entry (and trust us it was toughhh to just pick 1!).  Below is the winning submission along with some other mentioned designs -

Winning Design - beenish (http://www.designchords.com/content/corporate-design)

Beenish takes away the 100$ award. The team unanimously loved this design. It is just what we were looking for – simple, corporate touch, elegant and has that look which will make our brand recognizable when present among other logos. There is a feedback element we’d like to discuss with the designer for the final delivery, but overall we have found our Logo.

Consolation prizes -

becks (http://www.designchords.com/content/logo-1)

Very straightforward, good communication and nice colours used. The design was amongst the final 3-4 designs we were considering for the Logo. We have a movie voucher from Kyazoonga for the designer.

HD-Designer (http://www.designchords.com/node/144)

A very nice and trendy logo. We especially liked the way ‘S’ has been shown inside the L. Simple and elegant design for a logo. Again was amongst our finalist. The designer gets a voucher from Cafe Coffee Day.

Exception –

We could award the consolation prize only to an Indian designer as the prizes are applicable only in India but we’d like to mention the design by alteredinnovations (http://www.designchords.com/node/138)

Both the idea of a pencil depicting the ’sketch’ part and its execution, both are simply brilliant.  This is  was amongst our favourite for the consolation prize, and thus we’re mentioning it here.

Honorable Mentions

There are a few designs that the team as a whole loved but could not be awarded the winning design (again – picking  just 1 design is too too tough) -

We found the design very artistic – something we would like sketch lounge to stand for as well. Bravo to the designer for the way L has been disguised shape of  pen/brush. Great execution.

KhyatiBhatia (http://www.designchords.com/node/139)

Great, amazing concept. The idea of a person  at ease, as one should be in a lounge, while he sketches is simply superb. As for the overall design, We wanted to see much improved execution to use as a logo.

ankitsethi (http://www.designchords.com/content/sketchlounge2)

Very stylish and yet very simple. Nice work.

Abhishek (http://www.designchords.com/content/sketch-lounge)

The globe representing the WorldWideWeb, and the brushes depicting the creative part are some really nice thoughts put into this. For a logo, wanted to see a little simpler depiction of the same concept – this fitted more of a background or poster design. But again nice idea.

Thank you everyone for the nice design ideas, it was a good brain exercise for us to come up with this list of a Few selected ones. Over the next few days, we’ll be reaching out  to the awarded designers for their details.

Also to bring to your notice, the team is currently working on giving the site a ‘face-lift’ and add-on the remaining basic functionalities like – designer portfolios, tutorials, designs voting, automated project posting etc.

We’re still in initial development and would love to hear from  you guys on what all can be done better, what features should be included on the website that will help the designers raise the bar of the design work and also fetch international client work.Drop your feedback on team@designchords.com, feedback button on the site or even here In the meantime we’ll work on completing the site at the earliest and try to bring in some client work.

Thank you

Regards

Design Chords Team