First Ideas:

The only instructions we recieved up to this point was "make it full color CMYK and have it illustrate that we do printing for all of Ohio." The following image showcases the first proof:

We submitted 5 ideas just to see if we were headed in the right direction. It was at this point that we were told "they look great, but, we had something else in mind." At this stage, they mailed us some various logos of other companies around the US that they felt were similar to what they were looking for. After reviewing, we adjusted our designs to reflect the following second proof: