Church looking for Awesome, West Coasty, and Creative logo

Venture Church

Venture Church is a Christian church located in San Jose California.

We are and completely re-doing our branding and identity. Help us design the cornerstone of our identity and set the tone for our upcoming website and every other piece of material that will be going out in the future.

Our style is y casual and functional. We are big on God (Jesus and Bible too) Community, and Outreach.

Our audience is educated, smart, in their late 30s early 40s, married with two kids, tech-savvy, West Coasters and proud.

They are healthy, active, and very busy.

We all embrace California and its West Coast characteristics.

We must have the end logo in a vector format.

Please present logo on white and black (dark gray) backgrounds by inversing colors.

The Challenge: Our colors are red and black. We need addition of cream color to soften the identity and make it more inviting because the red and black are too corporate.

Use of off-black (dark grays) and off-reds (toward burgandy) are encouraged to give the logo more depth and refrain it from being flat red and flat black. Remember, you will in essence be setting the pallet for our website so the dynamics of the gradients are huge for us.

Must say "Venture Church" (on one or two lines - up to you).

Notes:
- Don't use our current site for any ideas - its ugly and we're re-doing it.
- We are going to put the logo on t-shirts and other material.

Logos We Like (but don't want to be associated with)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped…rtical.gif

http://images.dailyradar.com/media/…p_logo.jpg

Unfortunately, no other church logos have caught our eyes for us to share with you.

The types of red and blacks we've used can be seen here:
http://www.livingontheedge.org/Past…e_home.php

Before submitting, is your design:
- bold
- awesome
- printable on a t-shirt
- simple simple simple

Crosses or bibles not necessary, but if you can figure out a clean way to integrate it into the logo, go for it.