Caryatid Logo
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Logo Design Brief
This is a logo for a company based in Geneva Switzerland, which provides consultancy and services to the pharmaceutical industry. These services cover specifically drug safety (also called pharmacovigilance), auditing services and training services.
A Caryatid is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head.
I chose 'Caryatid' as the name of the company, due to the following reasons:
- I liked the sound (English pronunciation) and graphism of the letters;
- I liked the image of a woman being the support for a heavy structure.
I would like the logo to convey the following qualities:
- strength, support, resilience, composure, equanimity, timelessness, standing the test of time, fairness, independence, sharpness, lightness (even if the task is tough), practicality, usefulness, clarity, good-judgement, depth (of knowledge), originality, creativity (in the solutions and methods provided). I appreciate that some of these concepts are pretty abstract, however, I hope they help you in understandig the kind of image to create.
The services are quite technical and niche, so what I really want out of this logo is that is expresses a strong personality and depth of knowledge, rather than get too much into pharmaceutical specifics.
Please see more details in the additional sections.
Updates
Hello,
Thank you to All of you who have submitted a design.
At this stage I wanted to let you know that I will be waiting until tomorrow (Tuesday 24 Sep) before I take a decision. I want to show the designs to a couple of trusted friends to help me in this difficult choice.
Once again thank you, Catarina
Added Monday, September 23, 2013
Target Market(s)
Pharmaceutical Industry
Industry/Entity Type
Pharmaceutical
Logo Text
Caryatid
Look and feel
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Personable
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Economical
Upmarket
Requirements
Must have
- Must have the name of the company, i.e.: Caryatid
Nice to have
- Some ideas on colour:
- Purple is the colour of pharmacy, of alchemy, of transformation, power, nobility, ambition, high ideals.
- Purple combination with verying shades of grey, but do not get too stuck on this idea, as I am happy for you to experiment with varying colour shades and combinations of colours.
If you choose to propose a logo with a human figure, go for something stylized and non-obvious. I like 1920s/1930s.
Should not have
- No red, no pink, no traditional blues (preferably avoid blue as I perceive it as an institutional colour), no schemes with black and white.
No bright shade of a chosen colour.
If you choose to propose a logo with a human figure, no nudity, no sexual innuendos (e.g. no swollen nipples, etc).