LogoContest

current logo contests

If you know any other open logo contests, add them to the top of this list:

• "create a new Logo for the Open Source wiki"

• The Wikibooks logo ... vote will last from September 8th to September 21th. Has a nice gallery of proposed logos.

• [ the Notebook Wiki] is looking for a new logo and Mac OS X icons.

  • http://communitywiki.org/odd/NodeWikiForPoliticalWikis/HomePage

• the Game Development wiki is looking for a new logo. Some submissions are already visible.

• node-wiki-for-political-wikis wants a logo.

• the Compass wiki wants a 135 by 135 pixel logo -- already has a couple of possibilities.

• The Free Games wiki logo contest http://freegames.wiki.taoriver.net/moin.cgi/LogoContest

• The OpenOffice.org art project http://marketing.openoffice.org/art/ (they're looking for all kinds of art, not just logos ...)

• the SpamAssassin Project: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/LogoContest , http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/LogoContestEntries , http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/LogoContestDiscussion

• http://www.firstwiki.org/index.php/FIRSTwiki:Logo_candidates This gallery includes the worst logo I've ever seen. -- DavidCary

• http://www.elvis.ac.nz/brain?ElvisBrainLogo (has several animated logos)

• http://communitywiki.org/odd/MadScientist/DangerSign

• http://esw.w3.org/topic/ESW_Logo_Contest

• http://CommunityWiki.org/CommunityWikiLogo

• http://deflexion.com/ http://deflexion.com/archiveb/2004_01_01_archive.php#107357380027871110

• http://www.wikitravel.org/en/article/Wikitravel:Logo_contest , http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Logo_contest_results

• http://www.yam.org/yam.cgi/story/1038922735

• Debian http://www.debian.org/News/1999/19990204 ; logo gallery: http://people.debian.org/~joshk/d-i-logos/

• TMDA is looking for a logo http://www.tmda.net/ (see http://mla.libertine.org/tmda-announce/2003-02/msg00003.html )

• The Jerusalem Linux Club :: Logo Contest http://jlc.iglu.org.il/logo_contest.html has a gallery of submitted logos

• the Visual Wiki Logo Contest (see below for details).

• Linux Unslung logo contest

• the Good English Rules wiki needs a new logo.

• ... feel free to add any other logo contests you know about ...

• WikiCreole logo contest: http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/LogoContest

(offline ? have they come up with a logo ?)

• http://GatheringHearts.org/

• http://wiki.opensymphony.com/space/Logo+Contest

• Furry Weekend Logo Contest http://www.furryweekend.com/logocontest.php "Submissions must not be published (including posting to websites) prior to the (2004) January 24th deadline!"

logo contest

• an organizational logo is a form of visual language. What do different logos tell you about the company ? Is it dynamic and fast-moving, or is it solid and secure ? simple or complicated ? serious or fun-loving ?

• If I want the logo for my organization to express certain ideas, how do I design the logo to do that ?

• design tips for designing logos logos

• Lots of people want a new logo. Who are they ?

• what sort of things do artists want in return for their logo ? Flowers, chocolate, money, fame, recognition, or what ?

• Example logos

design tips

• TheArtOfDesigningaLogo, by MichaelErickson

• Web pages need a 16x16 pixel version of the logo to use as the "favicon.ico": FavIcon

• Logo design http://turtlesweb.com/articles/logo.html

• Icon tutorial http://geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/6717/ ???

• ...

• I hear that "A very good description of why icons work is given in Apple's human interface guidelines, which have a whole chapter for icons." http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/HIGuidelines/HIGuidelines-156.html

• ...

• "General qualities of a good logo" http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3C390c4a81%40news.povray.org%3E/ and http://runevision.com/misc/povraylogo/logoinfo/

• The KDE wiki has icon tips: http://wiki.kdenews.org/tiki-index.php?page=Icon+Guide

Visual wiki logo contest

Dear graphics artists:

It seems that lots of groups have a logo contest. Why should Visual Wiki be any different ?

I've started a new wiki, and I need a new logo for it. I'm hoping that one of you is generous enough that you hack out a small .png or .gif or .jpeg to use as a logo.

I imagine that I want my logo roughly in the 50x50 pixel to 80x80 pixel size (non-square is fine), plus a tiny 16x16 pixel version I can use as the "favicon.ico".

suggestions:

• ... what sorts of things are we looking for ? ...

• Something to do with "Visual Language"

• DavidCary is unfairly biased towards images that incorporate "recursion"

Visual wiki proposed logos (feel free to add yours here)

-- by StevenCooney

-- logo drawn and donated by MichaelErickson

-- EmileKroeger playing with SodiPodi

Taoriver logos:

logo galleries

It appears we are too late to submit a logo for

• ClamWin Free AntiVirus. The winner recieved $200 (USD). View The winner and top 4 runner-ups.

• the CDrecord software for burning CDs and DVDs. A gallery of submissions is archived here. (Is the contest still open or closed?)

• Logos rejected by the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (I hope these were not serious) ( http://www.tyronepow.com/ offline as of 2006-03-31 )

• Discover Card: Discover Network Acceptance Mark http://discovercard.com/discover/data/acceptancemark.shtml (has changed its logo; perhaps it would be interesting to discuss *why* they changed, and use it as an example of how to improve logos)

• the Department of Homeland Security Logo Contest http://www.logo-contest.com/finalists.php

• Wikipedia http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_logo_vote/Results

• PicoContainer http://wiki.codehaus.org/picocontainer/LogoContest

• Enron Logo http://www.viridianrepository.com/Enron/Enron.htm

• the WYPS Logo Design Contest 2003: Mr. Zaheb Ahmed from Rhode Island, USA has been selected as the winner. http://www.wyps.org/announcements_detail.php?ID=22 http://www.wyps.org/logocontest.php shows the winner and 5 runners-up

• http://iconfactory.com/ ???

• "fontastic" logo http://rover.wiesbaden.netsurf.de/~kikita/logo.htm

• "GoodLogo!com" http://GoodLogo.com/ claims to have the "World's finest selection of logos."

• POV-Ray Logo Contest http://runevision.com/misc/povraylogo/ (PersistenceOfVision)

• "Evolving Banners at the Discovery Institute" http://ncseweb.org/resources/articles/4116_evolving_banners_at_the_discov_8_29_2002.asp

more about favicon.ico

see FavIcon.

meta

Paying artists for logos is just a subset of paying artists for all kinds of graphic design.

In my job search, I came across these web sites:

• Rent A Coder http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/misc/News.asp

• Web Developer Marketplace http://forums.payproject.com/

I know nothing about them outside of what the site itself says.

If you scroll *way* down on those sites, there seem to be a lot of people who have posted that they're willing to pay for

• Graphics / Art / Music MultiMedia Web Page Design

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What other graphics / multimedia job forums do you know about ? (What should we call a page talking about this ? VisualJobs ? MultiMediaJobs ?)

-- DavidCary

(There's also a Software Bazaar, but I don't see any graphic design stuff there yet.)

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