Hats off to:

1. S. Mohamed Shihabdeen (Shihab)
2. Daniel Marina (TheNutz)
3. Michael Bretherton (River)

Also, thank you to those who were in the top 10! You guys made it tough to make our final decision!

• Zan Lete (letez)
• Imran Khan (imran_828)
• Tim Brewster (tim_601)
• Irvan Haryanto (whipsnade_434)
• Sarang Powar (sarang_328)
• Zaid Ahmed (zaid_967)
  

We also want to congratulate Gerhard Schlee (gerhard_185) for winning the tag line contest!

We mean it when we say that choosing the winner of the $5,000 Logo Design Contest was a hard decision for us! There were so many amazing designs out there…so many that didn’t even make the top ten that still would have been great in the #1 spot!

Because of the amount of great entries and the gratitude we have to each of you for making this a successful contest, we’d like to spotlight some of our favorite designs and designers from the contest. These aren’t in any particular order, just a few designs that we were particularly excited about during the contest…of course, there were way more than just what we’re displaying here.

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This entry by Haetro is awesome! It is unique and it looks great in 3D as well as a flattened 2D version. Haetro had a lot of compliments from fellow designers because of his designs.

Akima_914 said to Haetro, “I think you’ll be inthe top 3…….. based on “Creativity”.”

Many thought that he would win and we thought he might too at one point (he has several entries that could have been in the top designs). Thank you for your work, Haetro!

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Gerhard’s work has to be mentioned here. We could tell instantly that Gerhard is a branding genius. His descriptions and attention to detail were spectacular. He knows how to make something memorable and creative, yet simple and timeless.

Gerhard’s slogan is one that we fell in love with right from the start and it stayed with us and will now be used for our site. We may add a word to the slogan, but the simple idea of “You Choose” says exactly what should be portrayed to the customer. We love your work Gerhard!

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DzineDen’s work is amazing! He had a lot of entries that remained active to the end of the logo contest because we were so impressed at how crisp and clean his designs are. This particular design is one that could stand out and say “The Perfect Design” without the words next to it.

We’ve read several comments on this particular entry and agree that it is awesome! It’s fun, simple, memorable, and relevant! Thank you DzineDen for the wonderful representation of your talent!

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Aso has been a wonderful part of our contest! The designs coming from this man have been fresh, inspiring and professional. We had fun looking at all the different ideas that Aso had for us. We can tell he has a strong desire to be one of the top designers out there and know he will make it because of his enthusiasm and passion for designing.

This particular design has stayed with us from the beginning. It was in all the top lists except for the top 10. It was really hard for us to move away from this entry, but what an accomplishment for Aso to have provided us with so many wonderful designs. It was a pleasure working with you in this contest Aso! Thank you for all your support!

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We loved this one by Chris_280! He also has a cube (most recent entry) that he made that is amazing!

His description for this particular logo is nice and easy:

“It’s a P, it’s a 1, and a D (#1 design), it’s a 10 (perfect)!”

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Now we want to give a shout out to designers we feel deserve recognition for things they accomplished throughout the contest, and here they are:

Most Entries – Aso and Chandra Kumar were both neck and neck throughout the competition, but Aso takes the cake on this one!

Most Communication – Again, we need to spotlight Aso. He is a leader and time and time again proved this in the contest because of his helpful nature, as well as his willingness to learn. Aso made a lot of comments to us as well as to his fellow designers. It was a pleasure to have him a part of the contest.

Most Improved – We feel Dennis_970 worked very hard to make sure he understood what we wanted. His entries from the beginning of the contest to the end improved dramatically. We can tell he is a very professional designer and is sincere in his desire to make the customer happy.

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Sexiest Entries -We have to show you these ones! We can’t decide. We like the girl, our wives like the guy, so we’re at a standstill… Help!

The image to the left was done by Vito_874

The image on the right was done by Muhammad_488

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Most Creative -This one is very difficult, because everyone of you is creative in your own right, however, there were many that stood out for us. We had to post the pictures and descriptions of a couple so you can see…

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This post by Osmany is genius! You can tell he loves being a designer!

“This option proposes a concept intimately related to the creative act itself. The cup of coffee (or tea) that accompanies during the labor process, and stimulate us through the path of creation.
How many times does the good idea came up, the solution to a problem, the good design, sipping coffee or tea from our inseparable ceramic cup?

The cup suggest the container of good ideas (the hot ones), intelligence, and why not: countless design solutions.

The simplification of the symbol, to become a two-dimensional object consists of two elements:

1. The body of the cup, which simulate the volume with a high contrast, and becomes a “P” of the word Perfect.
2. The handle cup, which closes the body shape of the cup and was created from the letter “D” of the word Design.

All of us who have the task of creating identify with this symbol that often accompanied us on the working hours, the meditation ones, at the beginning of a cold morning or evening workload and full of sketches, looking almost ideal solution, the perfect design.

The colors are blue and white, well integrated into the chromatic range of the site, and also represent the depth of ideas and light respectively.

The font family used is a digital version of the Frankfurt , medium-condensed version, in search of formal cleanliness, timelessness and good readability.”

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Another entry that was very creative is by Mark_790. We held onto this one because his imagination and description is awesome!

“The following ideas are based on the pot of gold found at the end of a rainbow with equal attention given to attracting clients and graphic designers.
The elements I incorporated are:

1.TPD- the t is based are the t-square (old school) and represents the design element. It is bending- symbolizing the give and take between the client and designer. The rainbow starts here.

2. Rainbow- symbolizing different ideas/designs, connecting graphic designers with potential clients, and/or The Perfect design community.

A rainbow spans a continuous spectrum of colours; the discrete bands are an artifact of human colour vision. The most commonly cited and remembered sequence, in English, is Newton’s sevenfold red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet (Some consider 7 as the perfect number). A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture (water) in the Earth’s atmosphere.

Key word association: human, color, vision, optical, phenomenon, spectrum, sky, Sun, shines, Earth.

Water usually makes up 55% to 78% of the human body.

3. Gold, specifically a “gold medal”. The idea behind any contest is winning. Here at TPD the client wins and the designer wins, not only contests
but also from the benefits gained from participating in the community. Gold has long been considered the most desirable of precious metals and has been used as a symbol for purity, value, and royalty. Gold is the most malleable and ductile of all metals. The “gold medal” here can also represent the winning design the client chooses that has been “formed” to fit his/her wishes. Great human achievements are frequently rewarded with gold. Winners of races and contests are usually awarded the gold medal (such as the Olympic Games and the Nobel Prize), while many award statues are depicted in gold (such as the Academy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards the Emmy Awards, the Palme d’Or, and the British Academy Film Awards).

4. Pot of Gold- represents the community and all the ideas and solutions at The Perfect Design .com. The Rainbow ends here, a colorful journey with an incredible payoff.

5. sky- “the sky’s the limit”

6. star burst- represents the radiance of the site, completion, winning, and the client finding his/her “pot of gold”

I tried to think of something that would best represent the Perfect Design.com and spent a lot of time trying to graphically pull it off- what a challenge! If people see a rainbow they’ll think of TPD. I feel it’s original and the “Perfect” representation.

Slogans used: “Where the winner is…you!” “A Rainbow of Ideas Leading to a Solution” “where a Rainbow of Solutions Leads to…”.”

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We want to thank all of you again for such an amazing logo contest! We’re very excited and pleased with the results! We have some more contests coming soon, so stay tuned! We will be in touch.

ThePerfectDesign.com Team

After a grueling effort by our team of reviewers we’ve decided on the winning designs for ThePerfectDesign.com logo contest.

So, without further ado:

First Place – Prize: $5000

S. Mohamed Shihabdeen (Shihab)

Second Place – Prize: $1400 or Adobe CS4 Design Standard Package

Daniel Marina (TheNutz)

Third Place – Prize: $900 or Adobe CS4 Web Standard Package

Michael Bretherton (River)

Tag Line Contest Winner – Prize: $200

‘You Choose’

Gerhard Schlee

We want to congratulate the prize winners – these are great designs that all have unique strengths! We’ll be in touch with Shihab, TheNutz, River, and Gerhard very soon.

Selecting winners in this contest was extremely difficult because there were so many unique and inspiring designs.

We’d also like to congratulate all of the designers in this GREAT contest. We appreciate all of your work. Because we’re so appreciative of your efforts in our logo contest, we’ve decided to recognize some of you. We didn’t have time to compile the list of designers we’d like to recognize before we posted this entry but we will in the next 24 hours.

Please stay tuned…

Again, thank you so much for participating in our logo contest. We look forward to working with you all as ThePerfectDesign.com moves forward.

ThePerfectDesign.com Team

This has been such a difficult process for us because of the talent we have here! We have been back and forth and back and forth between entries, and overwhelmed at the process of choosing the perfect design for our needs.

One more day left!

We have one more day ahead of us and this will be the hardest part, because we are certain that each one of these top 10 logo designs would be a solid choice, but there can only be one…

Thank you!

We thank all of you who have participated in this contest to make it happen. We congratulate you top 10 whose designs have withstood the critical eyes of ThePerfectDesign.com Team, and best of luck for tomorrow.

By the way, feel free to add your comments regarding the top 10 entries. We’d like to hear your opinions on which one all of you feel is the top design! Just leave a comment on this blog post to give us your feedback.

Here we go!

Announcing the top 10 entries for the $5,000 Logo Design Contest! (We tried gathering their names in time, but some didn’t have time to respond to our name request, so the names will be updated once our messages have been responded to):

…….Žan Lete……………Shihabdeen…………….Zaid…………Tim Brewster……..Sarang Powar….

…….TheNutz………………Zaid………Michael Bretherton………Irvan Haryanto……..Imran Khan…….

Thanks again! We have more opportunities coming very soon! If you haven’t already registered with us, please do so on our homepage at ThePerfectDesign.com.

See you tomorrow night!

ThePerfectDesign.com Team

We just wanted to give you an update about our elimination process in the $5000 logo contest.

We’re making progress as planned, but the process is very difficult. There are so many great logo design concepts! Hang in there as we approach Sept. 9, and keep checking the entry viewer to see if your entries are still in the running.

Tag Line Contest Update ($200 prize)

We’re trying to keep track of all of the tag lines you submitted in the logo design contest forum.

Please help us by re-submitting your tag lines here as comments to this blog post.

We will accept new tag line entries here as well.

The tag line winner will be announced at the same time as the logo contest winners (Sept. 9).

We’d like to thank all of the designers who have participated in this amazing logo contest.

ThePerfectDesign.com Team

A lot of time and energy was spent on all sides… Designers were working around the clock, as well as ThePerfectDesign.com Team to make sure this event was successful.

We want to thank you all for your participation in our logo design contest! Each one of you helped create our logo, the perfect logo for ThePerfectDesign.com…But which design is the winner?

Great question… We know that our design is in there amongst the 5,591 entries we received in the contest!!! We will be pouring through these designs for the next seven days and will announce the winner at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, September 9^th (Central Standard Time, U.S.).

We will be doing a few things to help all of you see the progress of our selection of the $5,000 prize winner! Please read about the entire process so you can understand what is going on when it happens…

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Entry Viewer

Of the 5,591 entries we’ve received, we currently have 4,018 that are active in our Entry Viewer, which means that at least 1,573 entries were eliminated because we knew right away that the design (or concept) wasn’t a match for our site (does not mean that the design was not a good design).

What we are going to do is start eliminating:

• Any duplicate entries
• All entries that were placed on screen shots of our site

This will help us quickly remove a lot of the entries that aren’t necessary for us to choose the winning design.

We will also be eliminating entries that we feel aren’t the best fit for what we’re trying to accomplish at this time. Again, if your designs are eliminated, it does not mean it isn’t a good design. Here’s the process:

• Starting Friday at 11:59 p.m. (Central Standard Time, U.S.) we will narrow our entries down to 500 active entries using the entry viewer. Again, we will eliminate all duplicates, screen shot entries, and designs that don’t fit our needs
• Saturday at 11:59 p.m. we will narrow our active entries to 400
• Sunday, 11:59 p.m. – narrow to 200 (not 300)
• Monday, 11:59 p.m. – narrow to 100
• Tuesday, 11:59 p.m. – narrow to 10
• Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. – Winners announced!

Follow this link to go to the entry viewer: http://theperfectdesign.com/entryviewer/

Blog Posts

Throughout the process we will be giving updates in our blog. Please subscribe to our blog so you receive all of these updates when we post them here. You can follow this link to subscribe: http://theperfectdesign.com/blog/feed/rss/

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Again, we thank all of you for your participation in our logo design contest! We hope that you will take an active part in commenting on designs that you feel are noteworthy by making comments to our blog posts each day. Even if you aren’t selected as a winner of the contest, we’d love to hear from you!

We will be continuing from here to start posting more design contests and opportunities to earn money and create relationships with potential clients. Please stay tuned, our full site will be up soon.

All the best!

ThePerfectDesign.com Team

We’ve decided to post 40 of our top picks for our logo design contest. If you’re not in this list, don’t fret! Please consider the following while you are viewing the designs we’ve posted here:

1. This list was compiled on Thursday, August 14, at 3:00 pm Central Time (USA) edit: through August 21, 2:30 pm Central Time (USA). Entries may have come in since then that would have made the list.
2. Order means nothing…we’ve posted the logos randomly.
3. This list is not definitive by any means. Anything can change. The winning design may or may not be in this list (there are way more than just 40 designs that we like).
4. We may have several favorites from one designer, but decided to post only one of our favorites from the designers listed.
5. Please, please, please understand that if one of your designs did not make the list, this does not mean that you cannot win this contest. There are so many great designers competing here that we could not showcase all of our favorite designs. We will be looking closely at every entry in the contest until the contest submission time ends.
6. Click on the images to view the thread for each designer, so you can see their other designs.

So, without further ado, here are our current 40 picks for the $5,000 logo design contest:

>> Enter Our $5000 Logo Contest Here <<

We’ve been extremely busy working on ThePerfectDesign.com site and on developing relationships with potential clients.

As such, we have not been able to provide the amount or type of feedback that we think is fair and necessary for our $5000 logo design contest.

Therefore, we will be extending the contest end date. This will enable us to get you better feedback on your logo design entries. We will not extend the contest again.

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NEW CONTEST END DATE:

11:59 p.m., Wednesday, September 2, 2009.

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By the way, if you haven’t joined the contest yet, please do so here:

Join our contest @ ThePerfectDesign.com

Please let us know if you have any comments, questions, or concerns by commenting below.

Thanks,

ThePerfectDesign.com Team

Please visit our post, “Top Ten Ways to Help Your Design Succeed” and use this as a resource to help make the most of your experience in our contest. We hope this will help save all of us time as we strive together to develop and find “The Perfect Logo Design” for our site. We appreciate the entries and the response we’ve seen thus far!

All the best!

ThePerfectDesign.com Team

We posted the $5000 Logo Design Contest requirements (design brief) in the forums. Go take a look and get ready to rumble!

Logo Contest Design Requirements (Design Brief)

The contest will be launched on Wednesday, July 22, at 12:00 a.m. (GMT-06:00, Central Time, U.S.& Canada).

If you’re pre-registered to get updates about the contest, you will receive login information and instructions on how to participate in the contest in the next few days. If you’re not pre-registered, please pre-register on our homepage.

REMINDER: The contest has not yet begun. Please wait until Wednesday, July 22, at 12:00 a.m. to submit your entries.

Good luck to everyone, we look forward to your logo contest submissions.

The contest rules outline what is expected from participants of the competition as well as the things that the participants can expect from ThePerfectDesign.com. The rules can be found in the forum at http://theperfectdesign.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6.

We will be posting the Contest Requirements (contest brief) in the forum tomorrow evening (July 17) at 11:59 p.m (GMT-06:00, Central Time, U.S. & Canada). This way everyone can get geared up for the competition and start submitting entries from day one (July 22).

We wish you all the best of luck in the competition and thank you, in advance, for your participation!

ThePerfectDesign.com Team