Winner Is...
BY EGGBOY'13
Thanks for competing everyone!
Disclaimer:
Note that the winner of the VGBA logo competition will not be the official one unless designated as such by Reed.
Congrats to Eggboy.
I'd be curious just to see the numbers on both voting sessions when you have to time.
stevencho, did you have a design in the final group?
Congrats, it's a really good logo.
This doesn't fit with the site at all.
Eggboy's logo won on its own merits with those who chose to vote. From a design perspective, however, the logo is a mess. I'm not saying it isn't pretty; it just isn't a solid design. The font is put to good use, but the styles and colors used don't match. The use of one color on one part of the text and a different color on another part of the text is fine as long as the same style is used for both. The logo uses not only 3 various color schemes, each scheme uses a differing style than the others. This is a blatant design no-no.
Yeah I really don't like it either. Looks like something from one of those glitter text sites. Sorry Eggy.
Mine was #21. The premise was simple. The graphic that the V sits in is an indication that VGBA is a site where its members tend to think outside the box. The line drawn over the boxart is a "not" symbol, to indicate that we do other art as well as boxart. The text is clean and bold, the 2-dimensional elements were used so that the design scales well without modification. It also lends itself to abbreviating the logo to VGBA without loss of brand identity. The yin-yang supposition balances itself graphically between the two chosen colors. The chosen colors were derived from the site's color codes.
I voted for #21, but this one is still pretty sweet. It was tough for me to decide, though, because this was more artistic while #21 fit better with the site.