TimesSquare $10,000 Logo Contest: Winners Announced
In May we mentioned that a client of DesignCrowd launched one of the biggest online logo design contest prizes to have ever been posted. The TimesSquare.com $10,000 logo design contest.
The contest closed in August after receiving 5, 845 designs from 1,300 designers from around the world.
On 12-12-12, TimesSquare.com announced the top 5 winners on its site. Sixty-five designers were awarded cash prizes for their efforts.
A Serbian-based designer who goes by the user name Jovan on DesignCrowd, took out the $5,000 first place prize. The winning design was one of 6 designs the designer submitted to the contest.
The top 4 designers were awarded $3,000 in cash prizes and another 60 designers of merit shared in $3,000 in participation payments.
Here is the top 5 roundup.
Winner – Jovan
Top 4 Designs …
REIZZ
OMEE
CTRL+N
LEMONCRUSH
What do you think of the winning designs? You can check out more entries on DesignCrowd.
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A free font poorly kerned, coupled with a weak concept created the perfect storm. This was sadly a missed opportunity to create something truly memorable. Crowdsourcing sometime’s delivers a gem like the “Human Rights” logo, which to me is timeless and well executed.
This is the other end of that:(
Hmmm.. I think OMEE design is the best. Simple and beautiful.
Reizz and Omee. Are my absolute faves!
very sad and unreadable.
And that’s exactly why you don’t crowdsource, you, as a client, couldn’t possibly have better knowledge of logo design, what problems a logo can cause, legibility, type, and many other things than a logo designer. The third from the top is good, rest are absolute shit.
Excellent logo design. That’s incredible. Great logo designs. Amazing typography work. Alone could have been more pastel colors.
Either the jury´s have no clue on what a good logotype is or the picked them blindly without looking att all the submissions. Times Square is a mess already and these logo don´t make it any better.
Either Reizz or Omee’s designs should have been declared the winners of the contest, IMO!
With all the talk of logo design out there I’m a bit surprised at the winning choice.
One of the key rules of developing a logo is that the best logos look good in black and white. This makes them versatile and distinguishable even on letterhead. This post on FYC kind of proves this point: http://www.fuelyourcreativity.com/is-a-color-just-a-color/
Color, as noted in the aformentioned post, should be reserved for your BRANDING not for your logo design. The winning design here seems to rely so heavily on color that it simply wouldn’t look the same if it was converted to monochrome.
Given the criteria that I know of for good logo design, my vote would have been for LEMONCRUSH. It seems to most identify Times Square without the need for the type. However, with the right marketing push OMEE’s design could have becoming iconic around the world (someone with a Q brand should pick this one up ASAP).
I still can not support crowd sourcing but I guess we are all free to choose what to do. Examples are nice but nothing out of the ordinary.