Anyone wanna go at my bands logo?

[Hotcod]

I may be on a graphic arts course at uni but i'm not on the design side... which is not to say i can't do it but i'm having hell coming up with a logo for my band, any skill i have has deserted me while i've been trying to sort out my bands myspace page. We are in the studio tomorrow and should have some demos with our awesome new singer ready, so i want to put the myspace up soon even if it's just temp... i know there's a few people here who like messing about with ideas so if your a bit bored and are looking for a quick project please give it a go :D

http://www.myspace.com/throughouttheyearmusic

is the myspace, it's got some random ideas i was check out... the top piece is a quick concept idea i had a while ago, just wanted to show the rest of the band the kind of thing i was looking at doing

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a128/hotcod/Untitled-1.jpg

Didn't have a typeface for it so you can ignore how horrid it is but you get the idea of the kind of thing i was going for from that but ya in terms of a "brief" the only real things are the colours in that, pastel and fresh, white backgrounds and other than that go for its...

I'm trying to do stuff my self but ya i'm just kicking this open to any one who wants to have a bash at it in a few places really... partly 'cus it's always fun to see what other people will do with something but mostly i'm sick of banging my head againts the wall.

I am willing to pay if some one has a cool idea that i'd really like for the band but i'm not at the point of going looking to pay some one since me and a few friends and band members are still messing around and such. I also hate a lot of designers, odd to say i know but there's far to many people i know from uni that i'd as soon drop kick in the face than talk to and risking getting involved in working with and paying some one like that is not an attractive prospect for me

the last myspace i managed to do that i at all liked was my old bands one

http://www.myspace.com/boymeetsgirlonline

it's a bit messy now but the American collage font and the drawing where perfect for the band, i've just not found a font or a drawing or anything that i think works as being the new bands logo

[Camel]

I actually really like the way that looks right now. All you need is a better font, and then the name can stand alone as a logo (maybe?), or just be combined with the tree in some way (I would keep the tree though, I think it's a good representation of the name "throughout the year"). Right now that looks like a pretty awesome album cover to me. I especially like the colors!

I guess I do have ONE idea that might spruce it up a bit:

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z265/nickbudz52/bandlogo.jpg

[Wraith]

This is really crappy (especially the horrible masking job), but I wanted to play around with it a bit.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/wraithakamrak/cog/throughouttheyear01.jpg

Goes without saying - I'm not a graphic designer of any sort. This is the bird image (http://www.flickr.com/photos/camdensphotos/442463191/) I stole.

But, it's just an idea.

Looks like Twitter colors, I suppose.

[Troggles]

I think camel made the necessary adjustments to complete an excellent logo.

That said, I agree that the name needs a way to stand out on it's own, and the tree is a sweet idea.

[Hotcod]

Ya it's cool but it has its problems, main one being that i was using creative commons licensed stuff, brushes and the tree outline and such... which means if i want to start selling t-shirts or the like i have to go hunt down the creators and pay them. It was only meant to be an idea. It's the only reason why i might farm this out to a designer that i pay, they should be buying all the stuff they use and if not it's them that's at fault and not me lol

I'm going to try and get something done this week, should be in the next 2 or 3 that we start really trying to push stuff in terms of promotion so i want to be ready.

But ya thanks guy :) for feedback and ideas, camel = awesome.

I rather like the idea of the bird wraith but birds are a tad to connected to atticus in terms of this kind of music these days

[Handmade.Mercury]

I've always believed in having a really simple logo that's just really the band's name (see MUSE) and then using album covers for all that fancy stuff. That logo you have in the OP looks more a album cover than a logo.