The Sweden-India Society needs a new logo!

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Logo Design Brief
What does it look like when stiff Swedish minimalism meets joyful Indian creativity?
The Sweden India Society (Svensk-Indiska Föreningen) is a member organization in Sweden that brings together people with an interest of Indian culture in the words widest sense: religion, art, politics, food etc. The society is politically and religiously neutral.
The Sweden India Society organizes events about India and Indian culture on a regular basis, leaning more towards serious discussions than pure entertainment, even though the latter is not excluded.
We need a new logotype for the Society, since the old one feels slightly out-dated and only exists as a low-res jpg.
The logotype should be based on the meeting between Swedish and Indian culture, though it should avoid obvious clichés. The main focus shall be on India.
We are looking for something clean, elegant and timeless, that still manage to communicate the joy, colours and heat of India. Feel free to experiment with transparency, gradients, vectors, negative spaces etc.
The logo should include the text Svensk-Indiska Föreningen (beware of the Swedish dots!), and can either consist of text included in a graphical element or a graphic element next to the text.
We are not interested in logotypes that merely shows the initials SIF, so please don’t waste your time on that.
Our present logo is based on the traditional Indian greeting, Namaste. The future logo can be a modernized version of the same idea.
The logo is aimed to be used online (homepage, Facebook etc.), on business cards, folders, roll-ups and in letterheads.
Updates
Project Deadline Extended
Reason: We have not jet seen anything that is good enough to go ahead with. Most of the suggestions feels outdated and are far to close to the logo that we use today. We are looking forward to stylish creativity!
A few words that can be used for further inspiration:
Mandala
Opacity
Modernism
Lotus
Negative spaces
Fusion
Peacock
Sambandh
Flame
Added Saturday, August 30, 2014
Project Deadline Extended
Reason: We have not jet seen anything that is good enough to go ahead with. Most of the suggestions feels outdated and are far to close to the logo that we use today. We are looking forward to stylish creativity!
A few words that can be used for further inspiration - but inspiration only:
Mandala
Opacity
Modernism
Lotus
Negative spaces
Fusion
Peacock
Sambandh
Flame
Added Saturday, August 30, 2014
Project Deadline Extended
Added Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Industry/Entity Type
Events
Logo Text
Svensk-Indiska Föreningen
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Requirements
Must have
- The logo should include the text Svensk-Indiska Föreningen (beware of the Swedish dots!), and can either consist of text included in a graphical element or a graphic element next to the text.
Nice to have
- Our present logo is based on the traditional Indian greeting, Namaste. The future logo can be a modernized version of the same idea.
Should not have
- We are not interested in logotypes that merely shows the initials SIF, so please don’t waste your time on that.