Areti Maniati
Project Director

Glad you ‘got’ the Twins logo. I’m also very fond of the Sancti Spiritus design.

Mihai,

I enjoyed browsing your Behance portfolio. Cheers for commenting.

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But when you visit the winners list there are so many absolutely stunning designs.

I like the twins one but can’t help but think that I’m not ‘getting it’ – clearly the shape is meant to be something, yet despite being a designer I can’t figure out what it’s meant to be!

Oh wait, it’s only took me 10 minutes …. I’ve just got it, it’s a 2 on it’s side, very clever! Hmmm that does make me think it’s actually probably better than the bottle design I like.

Jacob Cass over at Just Creative Design has had some success at the awards also.

Thanks very much for taking the time to comment. I hadn’t seen the Wolda post on the Daily Heller, but stopped by after your mention and found the discussion of interest. You’ve helped put things in better context, and nice to see the Guild of Food Writers logo being plugged. It’s one I’ve featured on my other blog in this post: Logo of the month #9 (just a real shame how it has been implemented on the website).

Regarding your paid vs. free thoughts, seems like a good idea for a new blog post.

You know, I hadn’t seen that Quintet logo before, so thanks for bringing it to my attention. Excellent work.

Areti,

As Lauren said, thanks for clarifying a little of the judging process. Much appreciated.

Lauren,

You were ahead of the curve there with your own logo design, eh? I agree with you that paid submissions cut down on poor entries. There were quite a lot of duffs when I ran the little Logo Design Love Awards, though I was happy with the results.

Sean, Tim, Dainis,

Good of you to comment.

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I’ve read in various blogs almost scathing views on paid submission, but the truth is everyone does it. However, some of the costs are quite high such as D+AD, NY Festivals, ADC and Clios. Lets face it though, the prestige of all these makes them desirable and so they can charge what they want! Its costly, but i guess thats where being selective about the work you enter is key. Scattergun aproaches don’t tend to work.

I guess also, its easy to forget that the money that goes into these actually goes towards education, development and various initiatives and contributions to the industry that we all work within.

So paid v free?
Are there actually any free ones out there of worth? Even logolounge has a members fee and then the logos are judged on no criteria other than it looks good, or is part of a current trend.

David, I agree with the Twins logo. I think we like it because of our beloved Lublin :D

@Jason, I appreciate your point of view as one of the entrants in the competition. You seem to be taking the criticism very well and that’s quite admirable. Your explanation of the reasons behind the design of the 1 Degree logo make me like it more!

@Areti, thanks for letting us know a little more about the judging process!

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see ya

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I just had the chance to read your comments and seem quite interesting. I am writing simply to answer to your query about the design brief of each logo. Well, yes, we provide this info to the jury. Each judge, whilst voting, is able to see the logos along with their descriptions and only, so as to understand more about the concept behind the logo. Judges have no acess to designers’, agencies’ and countries’ names. These elements are announced by us only after the judges scoring is over and having collected the most voted and as such winning logos.

Best,

Areti Maniati