What is LOTW?
Logo of the week (LOTW) is a weekly contest derived from SOTW. In it you are set a brief for an imaginary company and have one week to design a working logo for it. At the end of the week a winner will be selected and announced. As well as a bit of fun the work you create will be useful for your portfolio if you are going into Art-related courses or the Graphic design industry, whether it be full time, part time or work experience. Consider the brief carefully.

I suggest reading about logos before entering, a few links are below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo
http://www.code-interactive.com/thinker/a112.html
http://www.logo lounge.com/logotrends/
http://www.logo lounge.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=607

Rules
- The work must be vector based.
- No pre-made logos are allowed, we will check.
- No ripping or use of copyrighted materials.
- Logos must be presented in .png format and with transparent background (illustrator > file > export > .png)
- You are allowed to make one post here. One submission allowed only.
- Embed your submission with [IMG] tags.
- Logo must be able to be scaled, to show this you must post the logo in two sizes, one larger and one small, but not too large (don't break the page).

Brief:
T coincide with the start of the Summer Holidays holiday camp Sunshine Springs are looking to have their logo redesigned. They hope this will attract more people to stay with them and partake in their activities over the summer, raising their revenue substantially. The camp offers stays ranging from one to five weeks, it's located in a lush valley in Southern France but targets families with children from Britain and other parts of Europe (the American market is slight, but there are a few) traveling there on Holiday. If you choose to stay with Sunshine Springs you can either relax there, staying in cabins or mobile homes, by the pool or you can choose to enroll in various activities, including; Kayaking, Abseiling, Canyoning, White water rafting and treetop adventures. For younger children there are "Fun Camps" where they can learn about nature, watch live entertainment and play five a side football, tennis, mini golf and other sports.

Sunshine Springs would like you to develop a new logo advertising them. They have specified younger families with children (No grandparents) as their target audience. With the logo they have asked for the designer to additionally create a mascot for them, which would feature in the logo and in various parts of their advertising and branding.

I hope you guys are up for the challenge. If you need a time extension (due to the added mascot) suggest it and if enough people agree it will be considered. Until then, have fun!
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Contest Manager's Comments:
Sounds like a wonderful idea Viral. Just a few edits to the page above and some tips and rules for you after that...
1)Please Specify what Vector means for my sake and probably for some other people also.
2)YOU must be the owner of this not us. Just note that, (mabe me a couple of times) you will be checking for Plagerism and etc.
3)When adding a new challenge to LOTW, Keep it on this page, Just change the color for each different contest (be sure to make it a readable color)
4)Try to make a deadlien date for entries and an estimate date of when results will come in.
5)When you have decided on a winner, Be sure to Private Message me BEFORE posting here. I will be the last one to quick-check it.
6)Rewards always get your contest boosted, I am not asking ou to put a 12 month CP membership up there, but maybe something small liek some artwork in return or a couple of xats on an XAT chat?

Other than that, it sounds like a WONDERFUL contest and I might actually try out some artwork (you will have to judge of course...)