A new logo for a new charity

Mark It Up

We're a charity - worldwide - that helps build classrooms, provide stationery, employs teachers and puts children in schools to help make this world a better place. We think education will help change the world.

We're small but we help out people all over the world - mostly in Africa, South America and Asia.

We like to have fun, keep things informal and do the best we can to help children and communities on super (SUPER) tight budgets. :)

Well - our website is our main advertising 'thingy' so it's go to work there. But we'd like a logo that combines the name 'Mark It Up' with a little picture or icon.

Ultimately we want people to know who we are by the icon as well as the words. Does that make sense?

A good example would be the Red Cross. People know them by the actual 'Red Cross' as much as the words 'Red Cross'.

We'd like to be able to add our little logo to small things and use the words and icon on bigger spaces. Hope that makes some sense.

So we need:
A logo that works for webpages (at the top like a small banner)
A logo that includes both words (Mark It Up) and an icon
We're worldwide so a picture of Africa wouldn't really work as we're bigger than one region
We were thinking icon on the left or right of the words so that we can crop out the words if we need to - we don't want the icon and the words to overlap because then we can't separate them

However ...
Please feel free to be very creative and different - we're all for "unique-ness".

Hopefully this contest is a little fun - apart from wanting an icon and words, we're pretty open to any ideas you might have. ;)