Design a Logo AND Tagline (optional)

  • Status: Closed
  • Prize: $60
  • Entries Received: 114
  • Winner: Shariquenaz

Contest Brief

This is a logo design for a bar and grill. We are hoping to not only get a good logo - but would be interested in a tagline as well.

We have a website (and a logo) but we need to step it up a notch. Our website is www.backtothesro.com Here you can read "about" see the current logo and look at some pictures etc...(may give you a feel for the bar). Think down home local, small town biker bar with softball players hanging around outside and on the fields.

Background on the bar that may helpful:
- this bar has been around since the 60's. It is known by all the locals and for many people all around as SRO (this stands for Standing Room Only). It has 4 softball fields (so most people at some point in their life if they played softball - have played on these fields (and drank a lot of beer when they played).
- the bar is small, it attracts motorcycles (mostly Harley Davidson) and has an excellent local following - the regulars range in age from mid 20s to 80+ years old.
- we serve good bar food: burgers, pizza and wings are awesome
- Bar Rescue came through in 2015. We were on reality TV and were the 100th episode. The episode was called "Hard Heads and Softballs". If you are curious you can see what it was all about since it is still out on YouTube and I think still airing on Spike TV. They renamed the bar to be "Boulder Lodge" and made it into more of like a "restaurant with cozy tables and fancy food and drinks". We gave it a run - but in the end it didn't work out. We learned a lot but about a year ago we went "Back to the SRO". We emphasize SRO but "Back to the" is part of the entire name (just smaller print).
- I am not looking to recreate anything to do with what Bar Rescue did. DO NOT INCORPORATE ANYTHING ABOUT THAT - I only include as reference in case you happen to want to check it out for background.

Instead we are looking for something that brings us back to our roots and what everyone knows and loves about SRO. We are Back to the SRO (and we want to do it with a kick but logo and some great merchandise etc...something that we can use to rebrand ourselves and make a statement. Eye catching. Cool. Clever.

So think about creating a design that is:
- Biker friendly (it needs to look good on a black t shirt) and on someone that will be riding a motorcycle. I want to be cool and clever (nothing sissy) but it needs to be done in good taste and not something you would see everywhere else. This is not about creating anything trashy - Edgy might be a good word.
- beer is always cold and we serve a lot of whiskey
- we have great "bar food": pizza, wings, burgers (it's nothing fancy - but it's good)
- bartenders are friendly and everyone genuinely feels welcome and comfortable
- we still have softball (but it is not the only focus) there are other things and events we do
- this is great place to Day Drink and Relax and just hang with friends (new and old)
- A clever tag line would also be something that could be fun. We don't really have anything per se. We do have on our web site "Dine in. Take out. Day drink. Relax. Enjoy." Not sure that really hits the mark for shirts - but include because we have used it.
- We always have something going on - events, bingo, live music, ball, pull tabs, Rib Fest, Car shows, bikerfests.... So maybe there is something with "...where there is always something going on..." (not sure but maybe that triggers some ideas)
- If you can't think of a tag line - just go for a very cool logo. We want to be ordering shirts, caps etc...with this new logo - so I can't stress enough how important it is that it looks awesome on a black shirt/background.
-I have no mock ups or anything more to share other then encouraging a visit to the web site to see what we have now (and what we DON'T want to recreate). We need something new and fresh and very very cool.

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Public Clarification Board

  • ivedayirp
    ivedayirp
    • 5 years ago

    please check #158 for three simplest conceptual logo designs

    • 5 years ago
  • robiulhossi
    robiulhossi
    • 5 years ago

    Please chack #155

    • 5 years ago
  • Polsmurad
    Polsmurad
    • 5 years ago

    check my entry please #154 #151

    • 5 years ago
  • Himon96
    Himon96
    • 5 years ago

    check my new design #133

    • 5 years ago
  • himelbiswash89
    himelbiswash89
    • 5 years ago

    Please check my entry #122 .. #130 .. #131 ..You like this design,

    • 5 years ago
  • khansayed040
    khansayed040
    • 5 years ago

    Please check my entry #120 ..You like this design,

    • 5 years ago
  • paulsanu222
    paulsanu222
    • 5 years ago

    please check a new entry #112

    • 5 years ago
  • paulsanu222
    paulsanu222
    • 5 years ago

    please check my entry #109

    • 5 years ago
  • thedainny
    thedainny
    • 5 years ago

    PLEASE CHECK THE #49 #51 #53

    • 5 years ago
    1. Eastsider1848
      Contest Holder
      • 5 years ago

      No this one will not work - not the look we are going for. I will show to owners though as part of review and selection process.

      • 5 years ago
  • georgemahrous201
    georgemahrous201
    • 5 years ago

    Please check #21 #26

    • 5 years ago
    1. Eastsider1848
      Contest Holder
      • 5 years ago

      I will share with owners of bar - not sure this is the look we are going for though. Thank you for submitting!

      • 5 years ago
  • Himon96
    Himon96
    • 5 years ago

    check my design #98

    • 5 years ago
  • nicoleplante7
    nicoleplante7
    • 5 years ago

    Hello. I have quite a few different entries #39 #41 #43 #46 #47 #52 are some of them. Please let me know your thoughts on any of them. I can adjust or alter anything. I'm happy to help in any way that I can :) Thank you so much!

    • 5 years ago
    1. Eastsider1848
      Contest Holder
      • 5 years ago

      Thank you Nicole! I like these - we will be reviewing them (and may have some tweaks later). I sure appreciate the effort and thought you put into the design. Very nice!

      • 5 years ago
  • Gpixie
    Gpixie
    • 5 years ago

    Please check #68 #69

    • 5 years ago
    1. Eastsider1848
      Contest Holder
      • 5 years ago

      Too feminine for the look that we are going for. Thank you for your entry though!

      • 5 years ago
  • anandgaurav311
    anandgaurav311
    • 5 years ago

    Please check #70

    • 5 years ago
    1. Eastsider1848
      Contest Holder
      • 5 years ago

      Nice. Thank you for submitting. I will be sharing with the bar owners for review.

      • 5 years ago
  • rafsun32
    rafsun32
    • 5 years ago

    please check #74 #72 . its eye catching logo

    • 5 years ago
    1. Eastsider1848
      Contest Holder
      • 5 years ago

      Thank you for submitting and creativity. I will be showing and reviewing with the bar owners. (The drum stick doesn't really work for the food we serve though)

      • 5 years ago
  • KrissParkins
    KrissParkins
    • 5 years ago

    Most of these designs seem to be a copy of each other, like they we made using a template. For example, 65, 59 are basically the same but made by different designers. Please take a high quality, original, industry standard logo into consideration. Which would be Entry #7. Please check #7. Will be able to make any modifications to it you require. I also implemented one of the most important things you mentioned about SRO into the logo, which I noticed no other designer took into consideration.

    • 5 years ago
    1. Eastsider1848
      Contest Holder
      • 5 years ago

      I really liked this! Very creative and is definitely getting to the heart of where we are trying to go!

      • 5 years ago
  • georgemahrous201
    georgemahrous201
    • 5 years ago

    please check #26

    • 5 years ago
  • georgemahrous201
    georgemahrous201
    • 5 years ago

    check #30 please

    • 5 years ago
  • almaktoom
    almaktoom
    • 5 years ago

    please check entry #13 #15

    • 5 years ago
  • nahidaminul4
    nahidaminul4
    • 5 years ago

    Please Sir Check My Entry's #8 , #9 , #11

    • 5 years ago
  • elzahaby
    elzahaby
    • 5 years ago

    check #10

    • 5 years ago
  • nahidaminul4
    nahidaminul4
    • 5 years ago

    okey sir thanks

    • 5 years ago
  • nahidaminul4
    nahidaminul4
    • 5 years ago

    Please sir tell me , what types tag line.?

    • 5 years ago
    1. Eastsider1848
      Contest Holder
      • 5 years ago

      Don't worry about it - it's just optional

      • 5 years ago
  • deeds85
    deeds85
    • 5 years ago

    Location of the bar (city/town) ?

    • 5 years ago
    1. Eastsider1848
      Contest Holder
      • 5 years ago

      Oak Grove, MN

      • 5 years ago

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