Piano Couture Logo + header + suitable font en color-lay-out / background for homepage.

Start date: 03-01-2013

Ending date: 17-01-2013

Total budget: € 299.00
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For my website, a blog / community aimed to everybody that wants to learn about-, and how to play Pop-Piano: pop-music on the piano, an 'unconventional' way of learning to play the piano, I am looking for a new, fresh, original 'look' that fits the feel image.
The website is already there (www.piano-couture.com), but the current look / image is far from what I'm looking for. The structure and arrangement I do like though, so these should stay the same.
The new look should thus be accomplished by the things as described in the name of this competition:
- a new logo
- a new header (the whole part of the website above the main menu is yours to redesign).
- a font that matches / suites (or rather: enhances) the feel of this top part of the website.
- a background or colour lay-out (suggestions) so I can use this for the background / footer etc. myself.

These are probably all quite similar things that could also be described as: image re-design, but there is no such competition to be selected here on Brandsupply :). They advised me to try do it this way.

Image:

The 'old' 'classical' image of the piano is NOT war we're looking for.
We're thinking 'fresh', 'inviting', 'hip', 'new' in a way that pop-music stands to 'classical music' that might be a little 'neat', 'tidy' or even 'boring'.
An original mix between 'fresh', 'inviting', 'cool' and the 'vintage' image of the piano (and vintage keyboards).
The 'old' feel is only to be found in the vintage/classy/smoky old soul, jazz, pop/rock piano and piano=cool-feel. Think "Ray" (movie 'Ray' about Ray Charles).

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Target group


People that like to listen to pop/soul/jazzy pop/singer songwriter/ pop rock music.
Music with (acoustic) guitars and piano's and (vintage) keyboards, synths, organs.
Alicia keys, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Jamiroquai, Motown, oude soul classics, Billy Preston, Booker T., The Doors tot Coldplay, Gavin deGraw, Kings of Leon, Michael Jackson, Ben l'Oncle soul, John Mayer,Tori Amos, The Beatles, Ed Sheeran, Beyonce, Adele, The Script, Snow Patrol, Bruce Hornsby, etc.

Like to sing, do sing or want to learn how to sing.

Enjoy programs like Idols, The Voice etc.

Higher education.

(Semi)-artistic.

Also everybody that has ever thought 'oh I'd like to learn piano, but that's way to hard' -> it's for them.

Everybody that has a feel or even love for piano's, keys, keyboards, organs, vintage keyboards, synthesisers etc. should love to come to this website, either to learn or to watch (or buy follow up products that are in the making).

Colors, favourites and other requirements


Designer: SteSa SteSa
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12. Blue2

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Logos

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11. Blue

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Brighter blue

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9. - Cheerful open beige - also inspired by the colors in Ray's movie

coenmcoenm

Wow, nice.

coenmcoenm

we're getting really really close with these last two. let me 'let them sink in' for a bit. I'll get back to you tomorrow when I look at them again and let you know if I might know the final minor finishing touch. Might be nothing,..
Just to check: I have very nice picture of some keys myself, might it be possible to replace your transparent background-piano picture with mine and use that one in stead on either one of these last two designs?
Truly love them both, hard to say which one I like best out of these last two right now.
Thanks so much!

SteSaSteSa

I'm glad you like it :)
As for the picture - of course it can be replaced with any other of your pictures.

Regards
SteSa

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8. Warm Blue - Inspired by the colors in Ray's movie

coenmcoenm

wow. Nice. :)

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7.b - Brown grunge header - Logo version 2

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Hi,
Thanks for grate feedback !
I hope I understood you well in terms of what you liked from my designs. So therefore I have made new combinations , hoping that you will like this new .

Regards
SteSa

coenmcoenm

Again, truly great tries! thanks so much.
Thing is, I'm getting a little bit of a 'dark' 'underground' even 'uninviting' / 'scary' feel from all of them (especially with 7). Could you add in some 'kind' 'fresh' and 'inviting' 'everybody's welcome and should join' feel? Or am I being way to vague saying this?
Also please leave out the 'jazzy poppy... ' text, if you're going to re-try on the 7a and 7b.
At this point I like version 6a and 6b best.
7a I don't really feel the 'swirl' keys in the logo.
7b I like, but the 'saw (movie)-feel' 'uninviting' etc... is highest with this one.
Really liking your tries, you're my number one at the moment.
Thanks so much.

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6.b - White old-paper bg - Logo design: version 2

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6.a - White old-paper bg - Logo design: version 1

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5.Light version

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Like this one the least, altough it's nice to, it's to 'neat'.
4. and 3. I like best, but are also too 'neat'. If you'd be so kind to try again, maybe mix the 'filth' / 'rugged' feel of 1 and 2 with the vintage vibe of 4. and 3.
Love your tries, thanks very much.

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4.Brown-light version

coenmcoenm

Very nice tries! I like different parts from different ones though :).
This one I like the logo from (though it might still be a bit too classical, because of the grand piano and also the font in the newsletter). Maybe you could take a look at poppy and his last design for my contest and take some inspiration from that. I like his 'piano keys' in the logo.
If you'd be so kind, loose the 'swirling' notes in the header. I'd like to have no reference to sheet music whatsoever.
The headers in all your tries lack something though. I like the overall feel, but headers need some adaption (do like the 'arrangement and the Facebook/twitter etc. icons on most
Thanks so much for a great try!

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3.Brown version

coenmcoenm

like the colours on this one! (like the overall feel of this one as well). Also the logo, but this is too classical too. twit/facebook etc. icons great. newsletter great.

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2.Black-white version

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like the shadows on post previews and the fact that newsletter stands out.

coenmcoenm

like the shadows on post previews and the fact that newsletter stands out.

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1.White-black version

coenmcoenm

From this one I like the 'rugged' feel, though the newsletter I think goes too far. Logo not so much on this one. font might work though...

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