Academic Research Center Needs New Logo

An economic development research center is looking for a new logo that uses the new organization’s name (“The Fragile States Resource Center”). It should be crisp, sharp, simple, elegant, and convey a highly professional image. The audience will be academics and government officials. The logo will be mainly used on an online information portal.

The Fragile States Resource Center

Desired Color Scheme:
Please view book on URL, but we are open to ideas.

Desired Style:
See comparison sites. Covey professional, sharp, and crisp image.

Accepted File Formats:
PSD w/ layers

The logo should follow a color scheme similar to the book posted on http://fragilestates.org/cover/. Beyond this limitation, we are open to creative ideas about the design’s presentation. Do not hesitate to experiment. It must of course be usable on the web.

Here are some prominent academic think tank websites for you to reference their logos. Note that some of these are in the same field (# 3-6) and have a similar audience.

1) http://www.aei.org/
2) http://www.globalsecurity.org/index.html
3) http://www.cgdev.org/
4) http://www.odi.org.uk/
5) http://www.developmentgateway.org/
6) http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/
7) http://www.brookings.edu/

We will be actively involved in giving prompt feedback to help you match your designs to our expectations and win the contest.

NOTE: As a condition of this contest we will need a signed copyright release.

We reserve the right to end the contest early if a suitable design is submitted before the deadline, or to extend the deadline if required. If no suitable design is submitted, we reserve the right to end the competition without assigning a winner.

Thanks for participating and good luck!