To all designers:
Thanks for all your creative work!

When you're submitting designs, please only submit ONE version of each design. There is no advantage to submitting multiple versions (on a coffee mug, on a glass wall, on a business card, on black background, blue background, etc). Just submit your design on a simple, untextured white background. Any duplicates with fancy background treatments will just be eliminated.

Furthermore, please read the brief carefully.
For instance, I submitted my existing signature logo for reference, and then specifically stated that I do NOT want it to be repurposed into a new design. Yet, so far, I've received about 12 designs using my existing logo. They will not advance.

Thanks, all!

Oh...and another thing....

There is no obligation to use my initials (IRK) in the design.
If you think it helps, fine.
But it's not essential.
I'd be happy to see more options that don't use them.
I think it's difficult to make those three letters look good together.