If you cast your beadies eyes over here ————————> and up a little bit you’ll see a shiny new banner allowing you to vote for the winner.
The final decision will be ours, but we’d really like to know which you think should become the OLP winner and our new logo, not necessarily what your favourite logo is, but the one you think best fits as our new logo.
The system takes the last vote by a specific IP address, so voting multiple times won’t help you I’m afraid, it will just over-right your previous vote. Of course you could run around to lots of different internet connections and vote, but as the final decision is ours anyway, that would be very time consuming for little effect ;)
So great people of the OLP, come and tell us who you think should win and help us make our decision!
PS I might drop hints about how the voting is going over the next few days. If you want it to be public you can always comment here who you voted as your favourite (the survey will only let you pick one)
Have voted!
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I did it. ;)
I’ve did it! :)
hum? Not what exactly what I meant, but okay - I’ve voted too!!!
What is with all the non-comments? Share who you voted for! My take was Think_Spreadshirt by Inamidova. Loved it from the first time I’ve seen it, I find her logo so fun to look at, and at the same time it’s simple enough to work as a logo.
I ranked Molecular Goodness, Play with forms, Labelheads and Lovetab GOOD: they’re the most creative ones, and I think fun and creativity is the most important feature about Spreadshirt, althought the first two ones are, I’m afraid, too complex.
I ranked Bubble Label, Your Own Logo, Universal Language, Spreadshirt TM, Labelspread and Tag Your Brand OKAY, because they are in fact okay, but they don’t inspire me particularly. Spreadshirt TM is really nice, but imo it’s too “serious” for Spreadshirt. Bubble Label is very funny, yet I can’t see it working as SS logo.
I ranked Pop Your Collar, The Signal, Label Cut Hole and Label Range BAD. Using a collar as a logo is too generic imo, and I don’t like its execution very much, it looks a little weird to me. The Signal is sure big potential, but when I see it as a stand alone icon, I can’t help but thinking of a donut - Laurent made so many nicer logos, I can’t believe this one passed through. Label Range is too simple for me, too low-profile.
Now this is the kind of comments they want, right?
Anyway, congratulations to everybody! I’m so jealous you can’t even imagine!!! :)
have voted finally .
I have voted for my fav design
Dizajner
These logos are Good (my favourite-order):
1. Pop Your Collar
2. Spreadshirt TM
3. Think Spreadshirt
Very proffesionell/memorable/neat look. I miss the fun thing on the first & second logo, but imho they put spreadshirt on the next level of its own: A confidential & worldwide acting company.
I think that is what spreadshirt want to be in the next few years (damn realized it too late lol) & these logos represent that very well. The typography could be improved on all three logos to fit the symbol (just my opinion).
@ Adam… sorry but I’m not very cleaver to understand all this english things so what means “collaboration”? I mean the category :D if is two or more designers that work together and try to share the idea for this competition I think me and alpha also are a collaboration since the beginning, so we are part of this category? Thanks!
I have a problem - I can’t see any link to the voting. At the top it says “Vote for the winner!” but I don’t see a link.
1. Molecular goodness
I admire both of your deep thoughts of creativeness. I think you’re too good for this contest, and that’s why the non pros loose in this contest.
You really push the creative thinking out the box this time. You said inspired by a petrie dish…. Hmm. Cool! I love it! I understand where your coming from.
However, along the way… Is it really describable? No one would have known that the black circle would be a petrie dish of some sort.
One can say: S rolled in glue and sprinkled with lots of colorful sparkles, or something to do with Christmas ornament, when shrunk to a small size all you see is the letter S.
There are four critical elements that can be seen in every great logo design:
1/ It must be describable
2/ It must be memorable
3/ It must be effective without the use of colour
4/ It must be scalable i.e. effective when scaled down to a website or favicon in size.
Looking at this logo 2 years from now or any logo SS chooses would raise doubts.
2. The signal
The signal: Long Live the Big Orange Donut…… dunkin’ dOnuts http://www1.whdh.com/images/news_articles/389×205/dunkin_donuts_logo.jpg
Signal for what! What could be boring and confusing. A Circle, a Ring, could be anything. It could be applied to any business… It’s a generic image of a logo.
At least Lucent Technologies was on the right track with their circle logo http://www.aiga.org/common/modules/utils/ImagePopup.cfm?image=/resources/content/1/8/0/3/documents/Lucent.jpg
If Spreadshirt picks “The signal”, they should swap their logo with Lucent because their logo shows the dynamics of personal creativity and innovations. And that is communicable.
The issue with this logo and so as well with MOLECULAR GOODNESS..is that, it’s too hard to understand. How can an average Joe or Jane off the street get the message right away?
Sure the people at spreadshirt can interpret anyway they like… and so can the public… but why should the public be guessing. The first rule of a great logo is that, IT SHOULD BE DESCRIBABLE in relations to the core of the business.
It’s not like every time you apply this logo on anything, that there should be an explanation underneath in fine print.
If spreadshirt wants to make this as exciting as a Nike Swoosh. Boy! The marketing dept could use a very handsome amount of marketing and promotion money…. So be ready.
IMHO, I understand the team at SS..where looking for something different but they “bit off more than they could chew”.
3. Bubble label
Bubble this bubble that it’s been explored, check the internet… and one of these days the bubble trend will burst and spreadshirt is back to square one in search of a new logo…. All I can see is a tiring, logo trend victim. Unless it can be dynamic..it’s not.
Shrunk like a favicon….it looks like a gender sign….hmmm male or female.? You be the judge.
What judge.?
4. Your Own Logo
In fact, NOT anyone’s logo.
If after two year of searching for a logo and they pick this one.
It would be a slap in the face for Tarzion’s Original logo.
SS If your torn between difficult decision…Take your tag line “Your Own Label” and use the finger print again.
5. Play with the forms
Everytime I see a collage shape of images it reminds me of this, Unilever International. http://www.brookebond.co.uk/ourcompany/aboutunilever/introducing_unilever/ourlogo/
Where is the originality here?
“Spread your imagination” poster turns me off when you see an image of a gun in the poster.
I’m sorry but in the US statistics show majority of crimes involved guns.
Besides does spreadshirt make guns, make airplanes, make cell phones, don’t know about skull and bones. The designer should have think about that….but, ahhh you say it’s the people that make the “imagination”…well, that’s some imagination.
Unilever can execute this style of logo because they can. Each icon within their logo represents an aspect of their business.
6. Universal language
I’m sorry Universal language??? Lets say…lost in translation for me.
Why the building blocks… where is the aspect of spreadshirt business.
Building blocks is for kids!… PLUS it’s so hard to read when shrunk.
I love Bauhaus….the architecture, simple lines/shapes of buildings etc. it’s been done before.
7. Pop your collar
Pop The Big Green Rubber Band
Look closely. The more I look at it, the more it becomes a sitting rubber band.
There’s something unique about the logo….great! simple, yes! Attractive shape…yes. Boring yes.
It’s static, no vitality, where does it say that spreadshirt is a people company?
Where is the creative drive that makes spreadshirt a platform for creative and or business minded people?
8. Spreadshirt tm
Interesting shape…but a closer look reveals a cross between the tip of a fountain pen and a dropped “guillotine” blade. Go google….you see what I mean. Specially, the top portion of the logo where the head rest. Ouch!
9. Think spreadshirt
Someone said here it looks like a scale…. Yes, a bathroom scale. Or some colorful big eye monster (monster inc.) peeking through a window. I don’t see the shirt at all…. That big eye jumps at you.
Otherwise it doesn’t communicate about anything about spreadtshirt.
10. Love tab
Stitch label…are you suggesting that spreadshirt…puts the designers name/brand into a tag/label, sewn to the back of the shirt and calls it their OWN fashion line collection? Accompanied by the tag line “your own label” doesn’t make sense.
As far as I know…spreadshirt is a platform for creative and or business minded individuals.
Blank Shirts are manufactured by American Apparel and Fruit of the Loom’s own tags/labels.
The heart icon..such cliché…overall it’s very busy concept. It’s all over the place.
11. Label heads
Something tells me about kids and children’s clothing. I guess it’s the stature height of the character and colours used. Someone said here, they have seen characters like these on the internet before.
12. Label spread
Similar to Exubera of the US. A pharmaceutical company.
http://www.exubera.com/content/con_index.jsp?setShowOn=../content/con_index.jsp&setShowHighlightOn=../content/con_index.jsp
Of all the grand finalist…Ulahts concept and design comes very close to the briefing of the contest.
It’s simple and easy to understand. However it’s lacking in human creative touch. The typography really needs work.
13. label cut hole
This is the same league as “the signal”.
hole for what! What could be boring and lame logo is this? Like a two dimensional peeping toms hole, The feeling is static, sure it’s a hole for a label/tag. but an average Joe and Jane off the street wouldn’t know what it is, Also spreadshirt doesn’t make tags and labels….where is the personal side in this.
14. Tag your brand
I tell yeah, the first 4 weeks of this contest..creative minds went crazy on “tags/labels” concept.
Spreadshirt don’t make tags/label, just because your tag line is “Your own label”, it doesn’t mean your logo has to tie in with the idea. IMHO, “Your own label” is a deceptive tag line.…..
Anyways, “tag your brand” is boring non creative logo. It insinuates nothing.
15. Label Range
My interpretation… why it the T falling….. is there a doubt regarding the quality of spreadshirt Tees “T”???…a negative connotation you might ask.
I don’t see this as being flexible. Image and technicality so to speak.
The Bottom Line: It’ only my two cents….
I feel the pain and frustration of the non winners here I understand you all. No one said in this contest
that the last decision will come from the public…. IMHO: NO ONE WINS IN BAD TASTE. Don’t worry anyone can try again for OLP 3. Third is a Lucky Charm SS.
My Conclusion…. There is no one to vote for.
I actually forgot who I voted for.
have voted :-)
for me 2 logos emerged really in this grand final:
1-Think Spreadshirt
2-The SIgnal
for me those ones will be strong logos for SS.
but to be honest, none of those are as strong as the last year logo…i loved the fingerprint, i still love it now, anyway, it’s not the time to begin polemics, see you ;-)
@omega: Yep you guys are, we never realized your were a design team. But I’ll add all your entries to the collaboration category :)
2cents (about “The signal”) : “It’s a generic image of a logo”.
Yes ! It’s a generic shape for a logo, BUT its use is unique. It’s not a classical 2D logo but reather a cloth - or a skin - who adapt to the 3D volume. In fact, it’s never the same, but always recognizable.
2cents : “he first rule of a great logo is that, IT SHOULD BE DESCRIBABLE in relations to the core of the business.”
Are you sure ? Apple, Adidas, Sony, Mercedes, Nike, Danone, etc… use your “first rule” ???
wow
good dog good dog 2cents
A female sunflower spermatozoon generic bubble was a better definition i think.
No regrets of course, and definitely no frustation to win nothing(!) when im reading too much pathetic comments since week7, wildcards. I hope a good prize for a fairplay competitor, it’s an urgency:)
Thank you Omega for spreading the truth.
The attitude that is liberated from strong predetermined convictions.
I didn’t dare to do it on my own because my english is REALY NOT SO GOOD as you can see and I am amware that I am not able to express myself verbaly! Yet I thought that it wouldn’t be needed here actually… This supposed to be about graphic design… so no need for explanations… Yet, obviously I was wrong.
Also I am 100% possitive that I would be misunderstooded. At last someone dare to stand up and speak loud and clear…
At the end that is only thing left here… I mean to use their own public democratic chit chat game and to left ”the other voices” written down for the next generations… For the sake of the truth.
I can not believe that you have express almost about 90% of what I think as well about these proposals… But really unbelievable… Same ideas we had… Even for the examples with Uniliver and kid’s stuff for Universal language and label heads… also about Molecular confusion and stupid circle… Also some other that according to my oppinion doesen’t even deserve some serious analyses… Unbelievable… such a simmilar attitudes… I guess there must be some truth in it and some might think about your (mine) words eventually… one day…
The only difference for me was that I haven’t found SpreadShirt TM as you describe it…
Actually I found it as na interesting sign… but nothing special really.. lacking with suggestivity… and obvious description…
Also Pop Your Collar beside how you describe it (and absolutely agree with you) It gives so strong allusion to a “dog food dish” …But we could be wrong…
at the and Joe and Jane probably adore cute puppies…
And with a stong promotion like Apple, Adidas, Sony, Mercedes, Nike, Danone, etc… have…
even their pets will have their own labels soon…
Forgive me to my bad joke… I don’t like to have such a comunication… but this is really about not letting the NONSENCES TO BE SPREADED!
Don’t get me wrong… I think that ALMOST ALL of the Grandfinalists are very, VERY GOOD DESIGNERS… or they will be eventually… but we are not talking about them here…
we are talking about their answers to “SPREAD SHIRT - YOUR OWN LABEL” requests…
And they are just not so good…
Once again I hope that you will understand my comments since the beggining as completely benevolent. Not malicious as there were many from other people… I wasn’t even malicious with my reaction on their doings… It is just not me…
I enjoy is making designs… and yes… I am passionate about all of that…
But that is good right? ; )
And I hate to see when stupid things happens… i’ve seen it enough in my country… That is why I have participated here in the first place… Thinking that it will be better here… No coruption, no arrogant pseudoexperts… no bad organisation…
With due respect P.S i think your reference was not Omega but 2cents dog of war.
Hehe.. yes.. Lapsus… Thanks ikou. ; )
I don’t know what have you ment by this dog of war but actually I don’t care…
As I said before, I am not here for analysing people and just not interested in that.
Anyway he was telling some things which are pretty much close to what I think…
And I wanted to point that irrelevant fact…
i’m not a good designer, i was not design here nothing, i have not intention to win.
here is my vote http://blog.shayowo.org/?p=49
I voted for
Spreadshirt TM by Japasa
In my eyes it is the best combination of a logo that that looks like a professional company while at the same time communicating what was asked for in the briefing. Good luck!