Designers:
Thank you all for your participation in the Creative Leadership Solutions (CLS) DesignCrowd logo contest. We appreciate your creativity and patience while the client has evaluated your designs. We had fantastic participation with 368 logos received!
We will be proceeding in the following manner: The client has selected 7 logo designs as semi-finalists. Those individuals will be rated as either 4 or 5 by me and will be provided additional instructions to further edit their designs. All other designs will be rated as a 3 and will no longer be part of this contest. A rating of 3 in no way reflects on the quality of your work, just that your design(s) did not resonate with the client as much as the others. Essentially, the client decided that they preferred a logo with an icon or element that inferred something about their business and/or what they can deliver for their clients (K-12 public school administrators and educators). Those logos which focused more on the use of the acronym (CLS) were less interesting to the client. Unfortunately, due to the number of designs submitted, we will not be able to provide any further feedback on those designs rated 3, other than what has been described here.
Thank you again for your participation and we will be providing ratings by end of day today (Thursday, July 24), Eastern Time.