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Best of October, 2009

2009-11-08T01:01:37+00:00

Another month has gone by and LogoGala has seen a lot of growth this last month with a lot of great submissions. With that said, it’s time the October, 2009 “best of” series. Thank you to everyone who has supported LogoGala and submitted a logo to the site. Enjoy!

Best of August and September, 2009

2009-10-11T02:54:54+00:00

Category: Logo Design

I’ve been keeping quite busy lately with freelance work, so as you can see I’ve just not taken time to post a new article in the “best of” series. I finally had some time tonight so I decided to sit down and do it. I’ll try to be on time for the Best of October, but no promises.

Sprint Fox

From John Mascarenhas

Geek Monkey

From J.T. Knight

Ecoscada

From Marcin Przybys

Code Fish

From Mads Burcharth

Brandstack

From Sean Farrell

Med 25

From Fabian Marchinko

Yodaa

From Navdeep

Cloud Cream

From Bojan Stefanovic

Little Prince

From Mako Lehel Mor

Turn Left

From Josiah Jost

Infinity Crime Studio

From Alek Chmura

Wallen

From Mads Burcharth

Logo Puns

From Jeff Jenkins

Sponsr

From David Pache

Peace Rebels

From Mingo

Rain Worx Software

From Brandberry

Sync

From Euan Mackenzie

Fourth Wave

From Anton Shanin

Cloud of Love

From McGuire Design

Mister Cutts Barber Shop

From Tabitha Kristen

Changes to LogoGala

2009-08-11T01:35:14+00:00

Category: Site News

I’ve been swamped lately with freelance work, but had the time today to change some things around with how submissions are handled.

A while back Graham Smith of ImJustCreative wrote a couple nice reviews where he shared his thoughts on the direction of LogoGala’s featured section and how beneficial it is to get glimpse inside the designer’s mind from the interview questions asked. Graham also felt it would be a nice addition for every logo on the site to have some additional details about the logo rather than a simple submission and nothing to go accompany it to explain how the designer arrived at the final concept.

A little while later via Twitter, Bojan Stefanovic of Logoholik shared similar thoughts as Graham in that he felt the site would benefit from having every logo also have some descriptive text to go along with it to put the design in context. Some designs are great on their own without need for additional descriptions, but once you get a peek inside the designer’s mind as to their thought process, that same design can become something amazing.

I agreed with both Graham and Bojan and made some changes to the submission form tonight which will hopefully not only clear up some confusion with the submission process, but also allow everyone to get all the juicy details behind the logo even when it’s not featured. So, going forward, every single design that goes live on LogoGala will include interview questions and answers (assuming the person answered them at the time of submission).

Changes to the Way Your Inspiration is Delivered

From the time LogoGala launched, three designs per week have been featured (Monday, Wednesday and Friday). For the time being and for the foreseeable future, I’m going to change this posting schedule to one featured design per week. Most likely every Monday. The whole idea of the featured section on the homepage is to give those designs the most exposure and with only being the center of attention for two days, they’re not the center of attention very long. Featuring one design per week will make them the center of attention and hopefully drive more traffic to the respective designer’s portfolio where they will gain new clients.

Even More Change

From the start the idea was that all submissions with the “interview” questions completed would be considered for a featured spot on the homepage. With the changes outlined above, ALL designs – featured and non-featured – will include interview questions and answers and I will be the judge in selecting one design per week to be featured. I’ve received a lot of submissions with extremely short answers to the interview questions, which is fine, but these submissions will not be featured. I’m looking for thought out and insightful answers to the interview questions; these designs are most likely to be featured. Don’t let that stop you from submitting your designs and answering the interview questions in a few short words though. If I like your design, it will still make it into the gallery, just not as a featured design.

What do you Think?

What do you think about these changes? Like them? Hate them? Let me know in the comments below.

Best of June and July, 2009

2009-08-05T03:17:44+00:00

Category: Logo Design

The past month or so I’ve been extremely busy with freelance work. On one hand this is great that I am continuing to build my freelance business. On the other hand it’s not-so-great as my personal projects suffer. I’ve been able to adhere to the normal gallery posting schedule of two new general gallery submissions each day and three featured submissions each week, but aside from that, I’ve not had time to do much else. As a result of this – as you may have noticed – I have not posted a “best of” article the last two months, so I’m making up for that now. This is the best of June and July, 2009. A total of my favorite 20 designs (10 from June and 10 from July) are featured in this entry. Enjoy!

Here’s the best of June and July, 2009:

Talk More

From Nido

Jolly Roger

From Christopher Magruder

Pencil

From Reghardt Grobbelaar

Happy Quote

From Mads Burcharth

Art Fox

From David Pache

Michael Nagy

From Michael Nagy

Travel World

From Brandberry

Aflitter

From Jeff Jenkins

Catfly

From Sergey Shapiro

Audio Tennis

From Andre Weier

Squared Eye

From Greg Ash

Allay

From Jenny Buffkin

Fish

From Vasvari Peter

Finishing Touch

From Fabian Marchinko

Girl Hive

From Jeff Jenkins

Life Fellowship

From Josiah Jost

Beach Geek

From Joshua Geiger

MJR

From Manuel J Rivera

Ribbons of Red

From Renee Rist

Rubidine

From Sam Wilson

Best of May, 2009

2009-06-12T00:13:21+00:00

Category: Logo Design

It’s that time again, and yes I’m a ~~few~~ eleven days late. I know, I know I’m a slacker and I apologize.

The submissions just keep getting better with each month which only makes my job that much more difficult in choosing the best designs each month. Thank you to everyone who submitted designs. Enjoy the Best of June, 2009:

Horror Films

From Josiah Jost

ImJustCreative

From Graham Smith

Evotweet

From Fabian Marchinko

Panda Communications

From Nido

Mind Berry

From David Pache

Green Gecko

From Studio7Designs

Vedika

From Sneh Roy

Leaf Tree

From Benicia Sarah

Crowds & Clouds

From Denis Wong

Fish Five

From Gareth Hardy

Best of April, 2009

2009-05-14T00:51:51+00:00

Category: Logo Design

It’s that time again, for the best of the previous month. Yes, I’m late posting again. No need for explanations. I simply forgot.

Enjoy the best of April, 2009:

Fat Moose Media

From Sean Farrell

Modern Nerd

From Boudewijn Vermolen

Ad Majik

From Roy Smith

Uptown Butler

From Aleksandrs Kirhensteins

Stock Dox

From Graham Smith

Accentuate

From Sergej Melissen

Elemental Audio

From Joshua Geiger

Denimology

From Bojan Stefanovic

Wine Searcher

From Gareth Hardy

Northwest Media

From Dirk Leys

Update on Promote and Win Contest

2009-04-28T02:44:29+00:00

Category: General

I apologize for the delay with this contest. When the contest started I had only hoped to run it for a few weeks but as you can see it has went a little longer.

I’m ready to start tallying up the results, but I’ve got a problem. The problem is that I didn’t realize Twitter search doesn’t keep data past 25 days. My initial plan was to let the contest run and tally up the tweets (and other results) at the end. I’m sure you can see my problem now? In case you’re not following, the contest has ran for over a month now and with Twitter only keeping 25 days worth of data, that poses a problem with figuring out who tweeted about the promotion when it first launched since it was longer than 25 days ago. I’ve contacted Twitter to ask if there’s any way possible to retrieve this information (they must keep backups?) but I’ve received no response thus far from them (thanks for the great support, Twitter).

I am all about fairness and to be fair to all of those people who tweeted about the promotion when it first launched, I want to give them the opportunity to let me know that they tweeted about it before I tally the results. I really have no other option here but hope that word gets out and that most of the people who tweeted about the promotion will see this post and let me know that they should have their name in the drawing.

The honors system will be in place here, so PLEASE if you did not tweet about the contest, do not lie and say that you did. If you were one of the individuals that tweeted about the contest early when it went live, please leave a comment on this article to let me know that you tweeted about it. Be sure to leave a valid email address so that I can get in contact with you if your name is drawn.

Thanks everyone for supporting LogoGala and the promotion. I’m sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused. Within a week or so I hope to have this all wrapped up.

Best of March, 2009

2009-04-15T02:02:31+00:00

Category: Logo Design

Time can sure get away from you sometimes. That’s evident by the date of this “best of” post. I’ve been meaning to publish this post for two weeks now but have been busy. Always better late than never, right?

Here’s the best of March, 2009:

Late addition

There was some confusion surrounding a logo (Zulu Safari) that was not added to the gallery until April, but somehow seems to have appeared briefly in the Best of March article. To be fair, I want to add the ZuluSafari logo to this Best of article. I found the design to be very creative and appealing and it would likely be in the Best of series next month, so I’m going to include it this month.

Zulu Safari

From Graham Smith

iPod Handbook

From Joshua Geiger

Ink Fish

From Cory Ottenwess

Executive Rockstar

From Michael Clayton

Chilup

From Bojan Stefanovic

Vivid Ways

From Chris Spooner

Piano Tricks

From Lawrence Anderson

Abby Wear

From Kode

Flip Florida Homes

From Sean Farrel

iPhone Monster

From Dirk Leyes

Catch 5

From Mike Erickson

Celebrating LogoGala - Promote and Win!

2009-03-13T13:16:28+00:00

Category: General

LogoGala has been online now for exactly two months. Its growth in that short period of time has far surpassed the expectations that I had before launch. In a short two months, LogoGala has quickly become a popular site for logo inspiration and is by far my most popular site.

To celebrate the success LogoGala has seen so far, I’ve decided to run a promotion which I hope will help get LogoGala even more exposure. Oh, did I mention that I’m giving away some great prizes? I didn’t? Well, in return for your helping me promote the site, I’ve got some great prizes to give away.

What are the Prizes?

Prize 1: The Big Book of Design Ideas 3 courtesy of Crescent Hill Books
Prize 2: American Corporate Identity 2009 courtesy of Crescent Hill Books
Prize 3: Big Book of Business Cards courtesy of Crescent Hill Books
Prize 4: 2008 Wolda Logo Design Annual courtesy of Wolda.org
Prize 5: Two (2) Helvetica Special Edition Moleskine Notebooks courtesy of Moleskine Asia
Prize 6: A FREE logo design courtesy of Sean Farrell at Penflare Designs. You will receive two concepts and two revisions for your logo. (Worth $250)
Prize 7: A FREE 30 minute logo consultation via Skype or email courtesy of Jacob Cass.
Prize 8: A FREE 30 minute logo consultation via Skype or email courtesy of David Airey.

How to Enter

Entering is easy. There are four ways that you can enter to win one of the prizes above. All of the ways to enter involve promoting/supporting LogoGala in some fashion.

Mention LogoGala, the promotion and its sponsors in a blog post. Once your post is live, come back here and leave a comment on this article with a link to your blog post so I can verify.
Stumble Review LogoGala (not just a thumbs up). Be sure that I can send you a message via the StumbleUpon interface so I have a way to notify you if you win.
Tweet about LogoGala and the promotion. Be sure to use the link I’ve supplied so that the #logogala hashtag gets included in your tweet and I can track entries.
Subscribe to any of the LogoGala RSS feeds. There are currently three feeds you can subscribe too: Master feed, Gallery feed or the Blog feed. Once you’ve subscribed, you will see a secret word at the bottom of any of the entries. Please email that secret word to info [at] logogala [dot] com with a subject line of “LogoGala Promotion” so that I can track entries. (subscribing to more than one feed does not give you additional chances to win).

For each promotion technique you use, you will receive one entry. What that means is each person could potentially have four chances to win a prize. There will only be one prize per person.

The promotion will run for two weeks, maybe a little longer if I’m still receiving submissions.

Good luck!

Best of February, 2009

2009-03-02T02:47:24+00:00

Category: Logo Design

Time really flies by sometimes; I feel like I was just writing the Best of January article a day ago, but at any rate, it’s time for the second installment ever in the “Best of” series here on LogoGala.

Thanks to everyone who has submitted a design to LogoGala. I wish I could include every design in the “Best of” series because they are great in their own way, but I can only choose 10. So, here are my favorite logo designs for February, 2009.