Scholar 6 (a Logo Family for School & Ed Tech Portfolio)

  • Status: Closed
  • Prize: £250
  • Entries Received: 10
  • Winner: stalek42

Contest Brief

Hi, my name is Joe Francis - founding director at Scholar 6 - and I am most grateful to you for considering our brief.

Do have a look at the brief attached. If you want there's something about competitors too.

There is no question it's a challenge - we've already had some artistically outstanding new designs from a professional (out of respect to that designer, we can't show you these) but none of them quite fit the bill. It's hard to produce something which conveys both affordability and quality and which feels dynamic and contemporary as well as compatible with scholarship and education.

But you needn't tick every box to catch the eye. Have a look at the current creative brief.

The Scholar 6 project is about creating a first class academic education for Sixth Formers which is significantly more affordable than most independent education is in the UK - not by being a discount provider but by redefining what quality education can mean in the 21st century. (Our current logo - which I must confess was done by me - has been described by our marketing director as "Oh, I see Tesco have started a school!" and it's the discount / cheap thing we want to avoid.)

One of our straplines is "Public Education is Under-funded; Private Education is Over-priced". You can learn more at our website www.scholar6.org (the new logos will be part of a re-vamped, professional website). As founding director, I am, like many others involved, currently teaching at a leading independent school - in my own case, Eton College. But nothing about Scholar 6 is traditional or elitist, even though we do want to convey something of the educational quality of the great institutions we work for.

The vision is to create the best education possible for the 21st century and a considerable part of this is through our own Ed Tech - in particular through creating online, interactive investigations through an LMS (Learning Management System) currently in prototype called Learning Fortress. We call our investigations 'bricks', and when you complete a brick, you can drag and drop a virtual brick onto your own personalised 'fortress'. To create these bricks, we also have an app which will be used by teachers to create the investigations and we are calling this Scholar Bricks.

So we need a family of logos -

Scholar 6 (current logo too Tesco-ish but does feel contemporary)
Scholar Bricks (current logo too baby-ish but intended to echo the Scholar 6 logo)
Learning Fortress (current, provisional logo, crudely adapted from Google images)

The most important is the first one - and you don't need to have a crack at all of them, but if we really like just one of your logos, we may come back to you to develop it across the brand family.

Good luck - and while a polished product is great, no need to go over the top - it's fine to be in sketched form (if anyone even uses a pencil anymore).

And thanks again for your efforts,

Joe Francis and the Scholar 6 team

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  • mbasil98
    mbasil98
    • 5 years ago

    I was just curious about when will the winner be announced ?

    • 5 years ago
  • axdesign24
    axdesign24
    • 5 years ago

    #extended

    • 5 years ago
  • designerbd18
    designerbd18
    • 5 years ago

    Last 3 idea #571 #590 #596 . Check please. Thanks.

    • 5 years ago
  • josephelvet
    Contest Holder
    • 5 years ago

    FINAL COMPETITION WINNER WILL BE AWARDED BY POLL. Only 8 entries can be circulated by poll to the judges. These will all be from designers who have submitted three (or at least two) designs for the logo family on ONE PAGE.

    • 5 years ago
    1. voboghure2057
      voboghure2057
      • 5 years ago

      check please sir #572 #573

      • 5 years ago
  • manhaj
    manhaj
    • 5 years ago

    Please check #563

    • 5 years ago
  • RebaRani
    RebaRani
    • 5 years ago

    #553..thanks

    • 5 years ago
  • reddmac
    reddmac
    • 5 years ago

    #461. Thank you.

    • 5 years ago
  • josephelvet
    Contest Holder
    • 5 years ago

    NO MORTARBOARDS! NO OWLS!

    • 5 years ago
    1. raihankobir711
      raihankobir711
      • 5 years ago

      #451 #452 please check sir....Scholar 6 bricks.thanks

      • 5 years ago
    2. irvingtimado11
      irvingtimado11
      • 5 years ago

      Hope you don't mind me asking sir, but what do you mean by "bricks" in Scholar Bricks?

      • 5 years ago
  • graphicschool99
    graphicschool99
    • 5 years ago

    Please check entry #419 #421 ..thank you

    • 5 years ago
  • saraban6457
    saraban6457
    • 5 years ago

    Please check new entry #431 #432 #433 Thanks.

    • 5 years ago
  • perfectdezynex
    perfectdezynex
    • 5 years ago

    please check my entry... #411

    • 5 years ago
  • josephelvet
    Contest Holder
    • 5 years ago

    FINALLY, if you can, please submit or resubmit your BEST 3 or 4 designs as ONE page only - it makes it much easier to organise.

    • 5 years ago
  • josephelvet
    Contest Holder
    • 5 years ago

    A couple of other designers have submitted strong individual logos but we are looking for a FAMILY or SET of two or three. There are 24 hours more in which you can make the short-list. After that we will be concentrating on encouraging and optimising the designs we have.

    • 5 years ago
  • josephelvet
    Contest Holder
    • 5 years ago

    and Muhammad Nabeel (375), Mohamed B (233)

    • 5 years ago
  • josephelvet
    Contest Holder
    • 5 years ago

    as well as . . . Fariya A (305, 350, 307, 386, 385) lova 1d (4, 376, 378)

    • 5 years ago
  • josephelvet
    Contest Holder
    • 5 years ago

    We have shortlisted the following designers. Congratulations to Aleksandar S. (248), Hans G. (315), Al. A.(326, 28, 327), Hasina Momtaj B (287, 215, 334),

    • 5 years ago
    1. stalek42
      stalek42
      • 5 years ago

      Thank you!

      • 5 years ago
  • perfectdezynex
    perfectdezynex
    • 5 years ago

    hello sir! please check my entry....#384

    • 5 years ago
  • perfectdezynex
    perfectdezynex
    • 5 years ago

    hello sir! kindly check my all entries...#357 #358 #359 #360 thank you

    • 5 years ago
  • mahamid110
    mahamid110
    • 5 years ago

    Please check entry #352 . I hope like it and give your valuable feedback . Thank you.

    • 5 years ago
  • josephelvet
    Contest Holder
    • 5 years ago

    There's has been some fantastic work submitted so far.

    • 5 years ago
    1. mbasil98
      mbasil98
      • 5 years ago

      it would be really great if you could rate and reject the entries

      • 5 years ago
    2. freearif00
      freearif00
      • 5 years ago

      sir please check #339 #338

      • 5 years ago
  • mahamid110
    mahamid110
    • 5 years ago

    Please check entry #319 #320 #321 #322 . I hope like it and give your valuable feedback . Thank you.

    • 5 years ago
  • Mithon1
    Mithon1
    • 5 years ago

    PLEASE CHECK MY ENTRIES ALSO #sealed PLEASE.THANK YOU !

    • 5 years ago
  • gustavosaffo
    gustavosaffo
    • 5 years ago

    OMG!

    • 5 years ago
  • josephelvet
    Contest Holder
    • 5 years ago

    The designers best placed to win the £250 prize are those who have recognised that this is a prize for creating a FAMILY or SET of three logos - not just 'Scholar 6' but 'Scholar Bricks' and 'Learning Fortress' too. But to save your time and effort, we will happily give feedback on a single logo first and then encourage you to produce another. Only 7 designers have been encouraged to produce a second or third logo so far.

    • 5 years ago
  • perfectdezynex
    perfectdezynex
    • 5 years ago

    hello sir! kindly check my entry...#273 #274 thank you ;)

    • 5 years ago
  • saraban6457
    saraban6457
    • 5 years ago

    Please check #265 #268 #269 thanks.

    • 5 years ago
  • Logozonek
    Logozonek
    • 5 years ago

    CHECK#262#

    • 5 years ago
  • shamsuddowla27
    shamsuddowla27
    • 5 years ago

    Pls check my entry#217

    • 5 years ago
  • josephelvet
    Contest Holder
    • 5 years ago

    CLARIFIER: As a general guide, we feel (1) that mortarboards are a bit old fashioned (though one or two look striking in the context of the logo), (2) that owls are for a younger age group and (3) that overcomplicated logos depicting interlocking people/ globes / the leaves of books are not as striking and clear as some of the strongest logos we've seen. I hope this helps!

    • 5 years ago
    1. irvingtimado11
      irvingtimado11
      • 5 years ago

      You might want to check this complete set of design #216
      Looking forward to your feedback. Thanks.

      • 5 years ago
  • saraban6457
    saraban6457
    • 5 years ago

    Please check my entry #192 #193 Thanks.

    • 5 years ago
  • LiberteTete
    LiberteTete
    • 5 years ago

    please check #90

    • 5 years ago
  • Logozonek
    Logozonek
    • 5 years ago

    Please check my entry #52#53#55#56#57#

    • 5 years ago
  • Logozonek
    Logozonek
    • 5 years ago

    Please check my entry #49#

    • 5 years ago
  • arman016
    arman016
    • 5 years ago

    Please check my entry #19

    • 5 years ago
  • LiberteTete
    LiberteTete
    • 5 years ago

    please chec #7 and #9

    • 5 years ago

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