Educational Newspaper for Prisoners Needs Logo

[jdavis]

Hello everyone. I recently started an educational newspaper for incarcerated people in America. It is a national publication. Since we are a grass-roots startup company, we are lacking a graphic design dept. You can see from our website that we just don't have a layout/graphics that are up to par. If anyone could help us design a logo, please let me know. Our website is www.hardtimespaper.com For the logo details, I would like "The" written small and "Hard Times" in a bigger font. Besides that, maybe something showing a mix of prison and education. The newspaper is titled The Hard Times. Colors.. not really sure. Nothing to bright. Basically use what I said to create something unique and interesting. You are the artist, so I don't want to have too much input. Thanks for your time. You can email me at jd@hardtimespaper.com

[Watawaka]

This is what it came out of my mind... tell me what you think of this

[CovertPea]

Your site mentions "Art" as being a popular activity. Why not ask for logo idea submissions from those incarcerated 'arty' folk?

[jdavis]

Watawaka.. real nice. I'm definitely going to find a spot for that. Do I have your permission to use it for free? I would also like a smaller round logo, perhaps small enough to fit in a 1" x 1" or 2" x 2" box; a mixture of one or more of the following things: prison bars, a globe, a newspaper, someone using their brain, etc. A real message of transcending the prison world through education, etc.

CovertPea.. thanks for the idea. I definitely will do that. I'm sure we could come up with something good. I may have the readers submit art for the main title of the publication, rather than the logo, since I think we would prefer a digital looking logo that we can use online.

[Watawaka]

Hi jdavis... yeah you can use it for free!
here is the big size .png version with transparent background
http://www.botakrass.com/salsecnew/h...times_logo.png
so you can resize it to your needs.
For the smaller round logo, I'm gonna see what I can do tonight

[Watawaka]

Hey jdavis..... do you want the small round logo to say ''the hard times'' also...
or you need just some graphical elements?