【translator if】 as a non-profit prevention of youth suicide institutions, FiveAlive want to have a unique logo to suit their propaganda.They decided on the site through the competition means to select the logo, this is a customer of this design project review.But the mainstream design community to such by popular race ways to design logo practice has been doubts.

I recently participated in a program aimed at preventing youth suicide, non-profit organization, called the Five Alive.We dream big, but it requires a mark of success to attract people's attention, the dream can be achieved.However, we no funding, can not afford a design firm to help us design a corporate logo, so we request sent to the Sitepoint website, want to help.

Sitepoint site allows customers to design requirements sent to the Web, can be a logo, flash animation, websites, or other types of design requirements.Designers can follow the customer's request to submit their works to bid, the winner to be the appropriate reward.In fact for a design project will be only one person to obtain compensation, other people's hard work and efforts are not compensated for, if not for the non-profit organization design, I would not do such a family on the.

I participated in the logo design exercise, which is also learned a lot.In this process, need to give the designer feedback to improve their designs, until from hundreds of designs in the final selection of one as part of our organization's logo.

five-point proposal

First let me introduce this design project, with regard to the prevention of suicide, many people may not have any specific concepts, we have first aid training, safety training, drowning rescue training, but there is nothing to teach young people how to prevent suicide, which is 15-year-old to 24 year-olds group the third largest cause of death.Five Alive aims to educate young people, if they find that their friends have suicidal tendencies, can take the following five steps:

  1. cautious approach
  2. know how to identify suicidal tendencies
  3. secrecy
  4. to know from where they receive support
  5. Quick Action

the design requirements

Five Alive hope that through various media forms for the organization to promote, will be organizedThe logo used in websites, T-shirts, awning, flag and even bumper, in order to achieve this end, we Sitepoint website set up such a request.

design requirement: marking - Five Alive Youth Suicide Prevention wake-up call activity.

This national event aims to teach all of the teenagers and college students vigilance around the suicidal tendencies.

Summary: the need for a modern fit young people a sign of the need to vector-based graphics, can be a wide range of applications and websites, buttons, bumper, T-shirts, wristbands and other places.

Description: Every 100 minutes the nation there is a youth because of suicide lost their lives.As a non-profit private sponsorship organization, we hope that through a national youth wake up activities to the maximum reduction in youth suicide.This project focused on one thing: to teach young people how to help suicidal partner.

signs need eye-catching, rich call to action, leading, to attract 14-24 year-olds.Signs need to include the Five Alive organization name and URL.You can ask around the young partners, to see if their preferences are.

We hope that the logo can be Web sites and other promotional ways, and this is a very important purpose.

needed style: dynamic, eye-catching, modern

prize: 225 U.S. dollars


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