Create a logo and brand theme for a jazz/swing musical band

  • Status: Closed
  • Prize: $33
  • Entries Received: 126
  • Winner: rdxzayn052

Contest Brief

I am looking for a freelancer to create a logo and brand theme (which i'll use for website) for my jazz/swing musical band. We already have a name and I'm open to suggestions for colors and design elements. I prefer a text-based logo design.

Design should say "just swing it". Simpler designs are better. Themes and inspirations:
* red and black or purple (maybe also gold)
* blue, silver, black
* 1920s / 1930s, jazz, swing
* Inspirations: Postmodern Jukebox (band) - look up their style
* Key words: sassy, sexy, fun vintage meets new, playful
* Instruments: piano, drums, bass guitar, vocals (i.e., no sax or trumpet references on the logo)

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  • shahad179344
    shahad179344
    • 11 months ago

    # 24

    • 11 months ago
  • a76799983
    a76799983
    • 11 months ago

    check #81 #115 #117 #128 #134 #135 PLEASE CHECK I HOPE YPU LIKE IT.THANK YOU.

    • 11 months ago
  • a76799983
    a76799983
    • 11 months ago

    check # 128 #81 # 115 # 117

    • 11 months ago
  • shahad179344
    shahad179344
    • 11 months ago

    24أتمنى أن يعجبك هذا الشعار

    • 11 months ago
  • tayka13
    Contest Holder
    • 11 months ago

    #108 has excellent graphics, lips and mic! Check out comments under that particular entry

    Loving #103 - this particular version looks like it is a banner for a strip club. However what i love about it is that the graphic is so simplified, it is not dirty, it is very subtle, and yet it comes across with very clear messaging.

    Can we make a graphic like that... something that is simple and subtle (like 103) but clearly represents the sexiness of Jessica Rabbit with the microphone... a cross between entry #108 , #103 , and #117 (with #117 don't need the fancy J, but it is good that you can see the writing clearly within a circular format).

    The key is: SIMPLICITY, something we can print in tiny size and you can still see it. SEXY, SASSY, musical, fun. But at the same time super simple so it is only a "hint" at the content, it's not explicit. It's cheeky like a subtle version of pinup ads.

    • 11 months ago
  • tayka13
    Contest Holder
    • 11 months ago

    Hi guys i've uploaded some examples of pin up art using Jessica Rabbit with the microphone.

    I would love to incorporate elements of that... the logo would be mostly text, so there is no space for a full detailed image. But if we can incorporate maybe some lines, strokes, some curves, something to hint at the pinup style art of a beautiful singer with microphone?

    • 11 months ago
  • a76799983
    a76799983
    • 11 months ago

    CHECK ENTRY #117 # 115 # 81

    • 11 months ago
  • a76799983
    a76799983
    • 11 months ago

    check entry # 115 # 81 if you need any change please knock me sir.

    • 11 months ago
  • graphicparadise1
    graphicparadise1
    • 11 months ago

    please check #101

    • 11 months ago
  • sandwipctgbauria
    sandwipctgbauria
    • 11 months ago

    Please Check my entry sir, #92 .

    • 11 months ago
  • sandwipctgbauria
    sandwipctgbauria
    • 11 months ago

    I hope this logo you may like. #92

    • 11 months ago
  • tayka13
    Contest Holder
    • 11 months ago

    Entries #69 and #57 looking good...

    The text fitting in the circle is good... can we add something sassy into that, like a microphone with lips - something like the advertisement for redhead matches, from that era? See how it is sassy, sexy, a little bit risque, but not too obvious...

    https://www.redheads.com.au/

    Also love the creativity of #69 - can we combine the simplicity of 57 with the creative key signature symbol (with the hat, very nice) of 69? Or maybe the key signature symbol can be the S in swing...

    Note: many entries highlight the word JUST in just swing it. Just is not a very interesting word, if we want to highlight anything it would be "swing it" or "swing" or the S in swing.

    • 11 months ago
  • a76799983
    a76799983
    • 11 months ago

    CHECK #81

    • 11 months ago
  • tayka13
    Contest Holder
    • 11 months ago

    Thanks guys

    I’m liking italics font, low caps

    let’s fit the logo words into a circle so something like each words on its own line, the text slightly angeled so it fits well into a circular shape

    The guitar imagery and the microphone imagery are good, I also like the oval imagery which resembles cymbals on a drum kit

    • 11 months ago

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