Design a Logo for The Pittsburgh Cookie Table Company

Status: Closed
Prize: $50
Entries Received: 47
Winner: galinah

Winner

Contest Brief

Looking to start a website and maybe a business called The Pittsburgh Cookie Table Company

Looking for something catchy, but simple, crisp. Not looking for stock clipart or photographs. Something that evokes tradition, tasty treats, modern edge, celebration, etc.

Not familiar with a Cookie Table? From Wikipedia:

A cookie table is a wedding tradition said to originate in Southwestern Pennsylvania, where in place of or in addition to a wedding cake, a large table with different cookies is presented to guests at the wedding reception.[1] Cookies are generally prepared by family members in advance of the reception. It is typically a Pittsburgh tradition.[2]

Research has shown that the cookie table appears to have stronger ethnic or religious ties, although in some regions of the United States it is becoming more of a regional practice, primarily East Coast and industrial centers. Cookie tables are included in primarily Italian or Catholic wedding receptions. Other groups that also have cookie tables or cookie platters are the Greeks, Slovaks, Serbian Orthodox, Austrian/Hungarian, and Scandinavians. The inclusion of a cookie table is more widely known where those of Italian ancestry settled, and also in some cases, of the other groups mentioned above. Where a settlement did not consist of sizable numbers of Italian or Eastern European groups, the number of those who were familiar with cookie tables decreased. Cookie tables were better known in the east than in the mid-west, south, southwest or west.[3]

Research by the Arms Family Museum of Local History in Youngstown, Ohio discovered the dominant areas for cookie tables were northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. Cookie tables were also well known in West Virginia, Virginia, New York, New Jersey and Delaware. States where they were unknown or not present included Washington, California, Texas and Nevada.[4]

Recommended Skills

Winner

Post a Contest Like This

Employer Feedback

“Great design! Listened to and incorporated feedback I provided. Provided final deliverable in source format in different ways so I had what I needed! Would definitely use again!”

wiredwizllc, United States.

Public Clarification Board

Contest Holder
- 11 years ago
Great encyclopedia of cookies at: http://www.thenibble.com/reviews/main/cookies/cookies2/cookie-types.asp
- 11 years ago
dimasadhi
- 11 years ago
hello, is pittsburgh have any landmark or icon that represent the city ? thanks ...
- 11 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 11 years ago
  Hi dimasadhi...Yes, the city of Pittsburgh is well known for its rivers and bridges. Other ideas include using cookies (gingerbread, iced, other) for the letters, etc. Google for Pittsburgh images and you will find some good ones.
  - 11 years ago
lench
- 11 years ago
Please check #6
- 11 years ago
ut786
- 11 years ago
Please check #3 .
- 11 years ago
Contest Holder
- 11 years ago
Here's an example of a nice logo (for a candy buffet company I ran across): http://sosweetcandybuffet.com/Home.html
- 11 years ago