Logo Submission Update

I know I said I would wait until after the deadline to post these (on BlogCatalog), but I'm afraid I might lose the URL references if I don't keep track of them this way. These are the submissions so far. Feel free to comment on them. The deadline for submissions is July 31st. The simple rules are posted in My New Logo Contest. I'll start the process of picking the best one on August 1st. I may or may not post more submissions before the deadline. It all depends on how many I get.

Two submissions by Hari from Hari's Corner:

Three submissions by "GoneFishing" at Gone Fishing's Journal:

A submission by The Irreverent Buddhist - This one is designed to replace the left image as well as the center text:

A submission by YSC87 from Punch Kick Choke:

ADDITIONS:

A submission from Jonathan at SmartWealthyRich:

July 18th, 2007 By RT Cunningham | Categories: Website Design | Tags: contest |

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Pingback: The Irreverent Buddhist » Logo Designs for UntwistedVortex.com on July 25th, 2007 at 4:37 am

[...] at untwistedvortex.com has been running a logo contest for his blog. Despute the appalling current design scene at freedomforall.net I put pixels to [...]

Rose on July 18th, 2007 at 9:14 am (Reply)

I really like the second one by Hari, but all are great.
Janet on July 18th, 2007 at 9:21 am (Reply)

I like the third one by GoneFishing…
MsRebecca on July 18th, 2007 at 9:24 am (Reply)

1ST ONE FROM GONE FISHIN'
blogcabins on July 18th, 2007 at 9:32 am (Reply)

Agreed with Janet - the third from GoneFishing is the definite winner. It's clean, simple, readable, looks professional and has text that is "not twisted" (read: sans sarif).
Jon - SmartWealthyRich on July 18th, 2007 at 9:38 am (Reply)

Here's mine RT!

http://smartwealthyrich.com/images/RT/untwisted_vortex_logo.jpg
2. RT Cunningham on July 18th, 2007 at 9:57 am (Reply)
  
  Now, that's unexpected!
  2. Jon - SmartWealthyRich on July 18th, 2007 at 10:55 am (Reply)
    
    hehe, in a good or a bad way?
  3. RT Cunningham on July 18th, 2007 at 12:20 pm (Reply)
    
    In a good way of course!
Jo on July 18th, 2007 at 9:39 am (Reply)

Third one from Gone Fishing definately.
hari on July 18th, 2007 at 11:03 am (Reply)

Looks like I cannot compete with the photoshoppers. Those other logos look great.
2. RT Cunningham on July 18th, 2007 at 12:21 pm (Reply)
  
  The competition isn't over yet.
Jim on July 18th, 2007 at 11:47 am (Reply)

They're all really good. But if I had to pick one ( for what it's worth ) I like the third one from Gone Fishing too.

Looks like you've gone some pretty decent responses RT.
Snoskred on July 18th, 2007 at 11:51 am (Reply)

Hey Hari, I like yours a lot! Especially the top one.

These are all brilliant, though. How are you ever going to pick one, RT? I don't think I could choose just one..

Snoskred - has a new home at -
http://www.snoskred.org/
2. hari on July 18th, 2007 at 12:12 pm (Reply)
  
  Snoskred, thanks a lot. I thought mine was a bit too plain, but I like the third from Gone Fishing too. It has class. Every logo looks like a professionally done one.
3. RT Cunningham on July 18th, 2007 at 12:22 pm (Reply)
  
  I thought about that too. It will be hard to pick because I like more than just one.
hari on July 18th, 2007 at 12:45 pm (Reply)

Now I am registered user
2. RT Cunningham on July 18th, 2007 at 12:48 pm (Reply)
  
  Uh, nope. You're now a registered author!
Abhinav Sood on July 19th, 2007 at 3:50 am (Reply)

Hey everybody,check out my submissions. I am posting the links here.

http://greatsood.abhi.googlepages.com/uv-logo-simple.gif

http://greatsood.abhi.googlepages.com/UV-logo-plainer.gif

Leave your comments
Abhinav Sood on July 19th, 2007 at 4:08 am (Reply)

@SmartWealthyRich .. your logo says Untwisted .. but its so twisty. Good work anyway!
The Irreverent Buddhist on July 19th, 2007 at 10:31 pm (Reply)

smartwealthyrich's is fantastic. Really makes a mark. Its urban and contemporary.

Hari's second one too. Losing the solid blue line makes the design far more coherent and the wavy lines mirror and make sense of the wavy text.

The third gone fishing one - to me it's very 60's and the latest sixties re-re-re-revival is dead. I don't see why people like it. The second one ditto but 70's.

The first gone fishing one. That's great. Same quality of contemporary urban that smartwealthyrich's has. I'd darken or lighten the tone on the shadows if you go for it to make the foreground name stand a little more prominently though.

Mine I'm not going to comment on … except to say I'm no designer and knocked it up in 20 minutes or so on Photoshop. So if the peeps up there who said they all looked professional were including mine in that then tyvm lol
2. Abhinav Sood on July 20th, 2007 at 3:06 am (Reply)
  
  Check out my submissions too, please, the Irreverant Buddhist. The links are in the comments prior to this one
  2. The Irreverent Buddhist on July 20th, 2007 at 3:42 am (Reply)
    
    Abhinav ..
    
    "simple" I don't like
    
    "plainer" is better. I'd suggest trying it without the green shading on the main writing and lose/lessen the big grey shadow on the tagline. Also I'm not sure how close your colours are to the existing ones. They might actually clash. The green looks a bit lime. I'd suggest taking a snapshot of the screen of this webpage header. Try pasting your logo's in and seeing how they look. Using a colour picker find The pantones or rgb values of the colours in the existing title and work from their in fine tuning the colour scheme.
    
    ps Im not a designer but I am a former publisher and international marketeer. I've been involved in print, logo, corporate design on and off for a number of years in one capacity or another
Jon - SmartWealthyRich on July 20th, 2007 at 5:11 am (Reply)

Hi Irreverent Buddhist! Thanx for your comment, I'm happy you like my logo! I was messing with Fireworks and saw RT was looking for a new logo, so I came up whit that one kinda "on the spot"
2. The Irreverent Buddhist on July 20th, 2007 at 5:40 am (Reply)
  
  Jon - SWR … YW a compliment due is better delivered, and at no cost, as are truths (sometimes this demands diplomacy to avoid cost).
  
  I've been playing with photoshop again and come up with a mark 2 of mine they look beter as jpegs losing colour depth as gifs.
  
  mark 1:
  http://www.fuckum8.com/Untwisted.jpg
  mark 2:
  http://www.fuckum8.com/Untwisted2.jpg
  2. The Irreverent Buddhist on July 20th, 2007 at 5:59 am (Reply)
    
    http://www.fuckum8.com/Untwisted3.jpg
    
    I can't stop
    
    …
    
    {{{{{{tears out hair }}}}}}
The Irreverent Buddhist on July 20th, 2007 at 6:09 am (Reply)

Also a great improvemnet is actually using RT's words in the later versions. just noticed that screw up in the first one DOH !! {{{bangs hairless head on wall}}}

Oh well sort that tomorrow lol
2. Jon - SmartWealthyRich on July 20th, 2007 at 2:44 pm (Reply)
  
  lol, you're on fire!
  I like Untwisted3
  2. The Irreverent Buddhist on July 20th, 2007 at 3:39 pm (Reply)
    
    Ty .. at least I have no hair left to burn !
ram on July 20th, 2007 at 12:26 pm (Reply)

hey RT please check my submissions.
http://www.teknobites.com/uv.png

thanks
2. RT Cunningham on July 20th, 2007 at 2:51 pm (Reply)
  
  I did, but you have two different ones in the same png file — the second one looks like a blank line is through the middle of it.
  2. ram on July 20th, 2007 at 4:41 pm (Reply)
    
    Yes i created 2 files, but for convenience i placed them in the same file.
    2nd one has gradient effect in the middle, thats why it is looking like that
RT Cunningham on July 20th, 2007 at 2:52 pm (Reply)

At this point, I'm feeling kind of partial to two of them and I don't want to say anything more about it.
Chris on July 23rd, 2007 at 10:56 pm (Reply)

Whilst the 3rd from Gone Fishing is excellent, I don't think it would suit the existing blog colour scheme, so I'd vote for Hari's second, if you were asking for votes, which you're not…..
2. RT Cunningham on July 23rd, 2007 at 11:02 pm (Reply)
  
  Glad to see you back from your vacation. No, I decided voting wasn't a good idea. I like two of them (and I won't say which), although one of them would have to be slightly tweaked.
  
  All of them have their own good qualities and it's a shame that I can only use one in the end.
The Irreverent Buddhist on July 23rd, 2007 at 11:13 pm (Reply)

if the one that would have to be tweaked happened to be mine it has been in the jpg version
2. RT Cunningham on July 23rd, 2007 at 11:19 pm (Reply)
  
  Hahaha… you're fishing, but I'm not biting.
The Irreverent Buddhist on July 23rd, 2007 at 11:39 pm (Reply)

I never fish

"
Nirmal on August 1st, 2007 at 10:40 pm (Reply)

I liked Hari's logo, has a web 2.0 look.