{"id":663,"date":"2014-03-25T18:43:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T23:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cognitiveinfo.com\/?p=663"},"modified":"2014-03-25T18:43:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T23:43:29","slug":"logo-design-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"Logo Design Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE:\u00a0 See part 2 of this series here ‘How to Run a Logo Contest for Small Business’<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

As a small business, I’ve been through several names and logos.\u00a0 I guess spring has me looking to do some remodeling on the website, so it is time for a new logo and new look.<\/p>\n

DIY Logo with Corporate Name<\/h2>\n

The company started as GAMA Health Technology.\u00a0 The focus was on providing secure networking and business intelligence to healthcare imaging companies.\u00a0 GAMA was short for Gamaliel, a guy in Acts chapter 5, but was often confused with GAMMA the type of radiation. Here is that first logo I did with that $29 do-it-yourself software.\u00a0 Yup, just a name and some squiggly things.
\n\"Gama<\/a><\/p>\n

First Logo<\/h2>\n

It didn’t take long for me to get tired of that and want a little more professional look.\u00a0 I hired a local designer and used the following logo for several years.<\/p>\n

\"GAMA<\/a><\/h2>\n

The Blog Logo<\/h2>\n

Along the way I started a blog about Cognos tips and tricks.\u00a0 First thoughts on naming the blog were cognosandbeer.com and I thought would review a different micro brew in each city.\u00a0\u00a0 Then a friend suggested cognostweaks, but there were a lot of tweak sites.\u00a0 Finally I read about cognitive information theory and shortened it up to CognitiveInfo.com.<\/p>\n

Having forgotten the lesson learned earlier, I combined text and clipart to make a logo.\u00a0 By the way, don’t ever use clip art in a logo, due to copyright issues.<\/p>\n

\"CognitveinInfo.com<\/a>
First blog logo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then it was just a matter of filing a D\/B\/A (Doing Business As) form with my state to rename the company.\u00a0 A local print shop made a quick text based logo and that has worked for several years.<\/p>\n

\"Current<\/a>
Current Logo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The contest!<\/h1>\n

If you are a graphic designer, you can win some real cash!\u00a0 Head over to DesignContest and help me out with a new logo.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.designcontest.com\/logo-design\/cognitive-information\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you are a graphic designer, you can win some real cash! Head over to DesignContest and help me out with a new logo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29,40,60],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business-2","tag-consulting","tag-logo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}