The Wireline Group is pleased to announce our Employee/Families Branding Contest.We are looking for creative ideas on the official Company Name, Logo Ideas and Color Palettes, and a company tagline or slogan.While we understand that our employees don’t do creative work for a living, we know that you have a unique understanding of our company and our place in the industry.We are asking employees and their family members to submit ideas/drawings/name and tagline options in for the chance to win Visa Gift Cards. The winning logo and color palette will receive $1000, the winning name will receive $1000 and the winning tagline or slogan will receive $1000.

WHO MAY ENTER:

Any employee or family member within The Wireline Group Companies.Experience with graphic design and creative brainstorming may be to your advantage, but certainly not required.We are ok with your ideas on a Big Chief tablet using crayons!

HOW TO ENTER:

Participants (Employee or Family Member) must submit one or all the following:

  • A new company name or a version of the existing name – The Wireline Group or TWG.
  • Your logo idea can be created with sample logos you find and make notations to, hand drawn ideas or a graphically designed concept.
  • A color palette to correspond with your logo concept.You can use industry standard PMS colors found on the Pantone site.The official PMS color can be seen when you slide over your color choice or by clicking on it.
    https://www.pantone.com/color-finder#/pick?pantoneBook=pantoneSolidCoatedV3M2
  • A tagline or slogan that can be used with the chosen name and logo.See Examples below.
  • Submissions must be received by September 20, 2019 by 5:00 pm CST and are not limited to one per person.Multiple ideas must be submitted at the same time and submissions by family members must state their relationship with Employee in their submissions.
    NOTES:
    • Deadline for entries can be extended if needed due to number of submissions.
    • You do not have to enter all components of the contest and will only be eligible for the winning gift cards on the components that you do submit.
  • You can upload all artwork, color palettes, name and tagline here.

JUDGING PROCESS:

  • A panel of judges that have not entered the contest or have family member(s) that have entered the contest will narrow the submissions down to three (3) options for each component of the contest.If there are no submissions within a category, the judges may extend the deadline or eliminate that element of the branding contest.All decisions of the judges will be final.
  • The top three options in each of the branding category will then be professionally rendered, based on your submission, and set up in an online contest to be shared with all The Wireline Group employees to vote on their favorite options in each category.Dates for online contest will be determined by the judges.

PARTICIPANT RULES:

  • The artwork or samples submitted must be no smaller than 3” x 3”.
  • The artwork becomes the property of The Wireline Group, and we reserve all rights for reproduction in all media, not to exclude print, social media, wearables, promotional items, film, video or electronically transmitted items.
  • The Wireline Group is not responsible for artwork not received by the deadline.
  • Submissions must be in no later than 5:00 pm CST on September 15, 2019.
  • All submissions become the property of The Wireline Group.
  • By The Wireline Group sharing this contest with their family member(s), and by the family member entering this contest, all entrants agree to permit The Wireline Group to publicize the employee’s name and company/region name, and relationship to the artist and the artist’s name.
    • Logo ideas/examples/drawings/graphic renderings and proposed color palette $1000 (Visa Card Value)
    • Proposed new name(s) for The Wireline Group $500 .(Visa Card Value)
    • Proposed new tagline(s)/slogan(s) for The Wireline Group $500 (Visa Card Value)
  • Entrants could win one component of branding contest or all three.Decisions on the top three finalists for each field are up to the judges.The final decision on each category will be decided by employee votes.

Questions may be directed through Questions Form to the righe.

All Entries must be submitted through the website by 5:00 PM CST ON September 15, 2019.

EXAMPLES OF LOGOS WITH TAGLINES:


EDUCATIONAL LINK ON CORPORATE TAGLINES AND SLOGANS:

https://visme.co/blog/how-to-create-memorable-taglines-and-slogans/

EDUCATIONAL LINK ON CHOOSING A BRAND NAME:

https://blog.rebrandly.com/brand-name/