Like Kokopelli's and Cairns? Be our designer!!!

Red Rock Research

Hi, we're a software development best practices training company located in the high desert. We offer training and consulting for software development management. Check out our existing website at http://www.RedRockResearch.com. We're looking for a logo to represent IT Training, but to match our desert motif.

We love the desert and want to stand out from the typical "IT Techno-Geek-Compu-Cation" sites you see everywhere.

Good logos should convey an emotion or theme in tune with the primary purpose of the company.

We are trying--in our logo--to capture the "we'll lead you down a path to better software development" theme.

Our corporate pillars are (logo should somehow reflect these):
(1) Thought Leadership (this is our dominant value proposition)
(2) Value First Perspective
(3) Structured Excellence
(4) Continuous Improvement
(5) Agility

Human Traits:
(1) Satisfaction
(2) Excellence
(3) Comprehension
(4) Confidence

We kind of like Kokopellis, Cairns, and desert rock art. Please be creative. We want our logo to have the desert red colors you see on our website, mixed with charcal-black and maybe a little green you see on the website.

Some ideas:
1. A Cairn and a path showing the way to go.
2. A Desert sun showing a siloutte of something desert related, with horizontal lines through it like IBM has.
3. A Cairn with a natural bridge in the background.
4. A 'smart' Indian rock-art dude.
5. Maybe some footprints along a path
6. Maybe frame the whole work in a compass rose.
7. Bonus: somehow digitize some part of it so it is connected to the tech world.

Here are some links to media we like and would like to be associated with:

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn…/index.htm

http://www.sinay.com/rockart/rock/rock-12.htm

http://fourriverscharter.org/projec…ldings.htm

We will be offering a website design contest shortly, likely based on this logo.

C-Level employees. CTO's, CFO's, Software development management.

Logo must look great on website, cards, and email. Must look business professional. Must be unique.