Logo needed for Norwegian company in Landscape and Environmental Consultancy (2nd round)

Aurland Naturverkstad is a Norwegian company in landscape and environmental consultancy, based in Western Norway. We’re looking for a fresh, modern and professional logo design for this company.

Aurland Naturverkstad

Desired Color Scheme:
please feel free, but not just green...

Desired Style:
fresh, modern, professional

Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)

 

 

 

 

Aurland Naturverkstad is a Norwegian company in landscape and environmental consultancy, based in the Nærøyfjord area in Western Norway, which has been a world heritage site since 2005. Clients include government agencies, local authorities, non-governmental organisations and private businesses/persons.

 

 

We’re looking for a fresh, modern and professional logo design for this company. Keywords: nature, landscape, social, analyse, planning, vision. The company name “Aurland Naturverkstad†must be the main element in the logo, “Aurland†can be bigger than “Naturverkstad†(same width). The logo must have a good balance between reality and abstraction, nature and culture. Not a realistic tree, leave or landscape (it’s not a park or a nursery garden), neither a too official look (it’s not only paperwork). The logo should be usable both for paper and web purposes.

This is the second round of this contest, we didn’t found a logo which fitted well enough in the first round which can be found at http://contests.sitepoint.com/contests/4193. We increased the price money from $100 to $200. Some logos we liked so far:

 

 
- http://contests.sitepoint.com/conte…es/264797: nice combination of reality and abstraction, powerful, nice colours, but a bit too massive font,
- http://contests.sitepoint.com/conte…es/262438: creative use of syllables AN, landscape and abstract elements, but too much overlap with TV-Norge (and MTV) according to our customer,
- and, off the record http://oransje.com/tree.jpg: joyful, nice balance realistic/abstract, “Aurland†could rather be written above “Naturverkstad†to get a more compact logo.The companies’ website (in Norwegian) could be found at http://aurland-naturverkstad.no, but don’t care too much about the style of it, there will be a new site too.