And the winners are…
We are pleased to announce the three winners of our worldwide logo contest!
The international jury had a difficult task in choosing the top three from the 12 logos that were chosen as a result of our user-voting. While many criterias had to be accounted for, the most important ones were the uniqueness and originality of the design, recognizability of the small icon, as well as an obvious reference to our name “Mister Wong” and/or the topic of social bookmarking and its associated connotations.
To cut a long story short, (drumroll) and the winners are. . .
Ivan Pashenko, Russia
Hu Nan, China
Israel Betancourt, Mexico
The winners will receive 3.000 USD each!
Now we move on to the final phase of the contest:
The Wong team will decide on the winner (who will receive another 3.000 USD). We will then have to take care of the few legal details. But don’t worry, we will present the result and the new logo in time for the holiday season!
WONG THE WEB!
December 6th, 2007 at 20:06
Hmmm… Nice MASCOTS
December 6th, 2007 at 21:06
[...] Al final, ni una mascota 6 Diciembre 2007, 8:05 pm Guardado en: Críticas, Diseño gráfico, Ilustración, Noticias, by FLiPeo12 Así es. Mister Wong ya ha seleccionado a sus tres finalistas (ganadores, de momento, de 3000$ cada uno), y la rabia casi me ha consumido al ver que ninguno de ellos tiene concordancia con lo establecido en las bases (que por cierto ya han sido quitadas de la web). En primer lugar, en ellas se especificaba claramente que el nuevo diseño debería ser una mascota… No sé, quizás esté mirando con gafas de cristales opacos, pero no veo por ningún lado algo que pueda relacionar estas ilustraciones con una mascota, ¿y vosotros?. Lo siguiente es hablar de los colores, y es que en las bases se establecía que la mascota (bueno, el logo) debería estar acorde con los colores y el estilo del resto de la web y la tipografía del logotipo original. Si llego a saber que iban a admitir el verde manzana como acorde con una web gris y granate con un logotipo que es una estrella magenta, no me hubiera comido tanto el tarro para crear una mascota únicamente a base de gris, granate y magenta. Aquí entra en juego la tercera norma violada: el nuevo diseño debería estar adaptado para ser fácilmente aplicable al merchandising en camisetas, bolígrafos, mecheros… Creo que una regla básica aquí sería el bajo número de colores y con ello la prohibición del degradado, con el fin de abaratar costes en las impresiones y poder utilizar la serigrafía… Pero nuevamente, parece que estaba equivocado. O eso, o ni los de Mister Wong sabían lo que querían. Me quedo con lo segundo. Bueno, con eso y con mis dos diseños, de los que me sigo sintiendo orgulloso, qué cojones ;P [...]
December 7th, 2007 at 12:08
Heydihow,
Cool Logo’s !!! Keep up the good work!!!
“And Let the force be with you”
Grtz Mibo
December 7th, 2007 at 12:24
Jejeje, FLiPeo12Totalmente de acuerdo contigo, cada vez más, me decepcionan los concursos y me niego en rotundo a participar, seguramente los ganadores ya estaban seleccionados desde el primer dia…Que disfruten de sus nuevas “mascotas”……Por cierto FLiPeo12 mu buenas tus mascotas, jeje
December 7th, 2007 at 12:25
That’s a joke, right? None of the logos are mascots! Unbelievable…
I mean they are good logos but just don’t fit the competition rules.
December 7th, 2007 at 12:26
Hu Nan’s logomark is genius.Has volumes of personality…hope you win mate!
December 7th, 2007 at 12:30
CONGRATULATION TO THE WINNERS
MASCOT: an animal, person, or thing adopted by a group as its representative symbol and supposed to bring good luck: The U.S. Navy mascot is a goat.
LOGO: Also called logotype. a graphic representation or symbol of a company name, trademark, abbreviation, etc., often uniquely designed for ready recognition.
December 7th, 2007 at 12:31
Well, great Logos! My compliments to the designer. BUT: I have a question. Where is MISTER Wong? Can not find HIM. Ah, okay, in the logo from “Israel Betancourt, Mexico” I can find a man (in the right half). So, this would be my favourite. The other two ones are really great designs, but there’s no MISTER Wong - for me…
December 7th, 2007 at 12:31
Congratulations.
Where is the mascot? Did one of the winners read the briefing? Did the Juy read the briefing? Why did I read the briefing? Why did I worked after the briefing?
Oh men, I’m just a bad looser
December 7th, 2007 at 12:45
Hu Nan will surely win.
Can’t see why other’s are leaders =((
December 7th, 2007 at 14:51
[...] Mister Wong contest [...]
December 7th, 2007 at 15:01
[...] So, they’ve picked the 3 finalists (who get $3,000 each) and none of them have stuck to the brief. All the designs picked apparently fall outside the rules. Those that stuck to the brief seem pretty pissed off from the blog comments. Blog here: [...]
December 7th, 2007 at 15:45
Me gusta el diseño del señor Ivan Pashenko, yo votaría por ese; es muy simplista y gráfico!!
December 7th, 2007 at 16:12
I don’t know how these are mascots (scratch head) i think the jury failed to look up the word “mascot”. Anywho i must congratulate the winners and hope Hu Nan wins since the name “Wong” is Chinese
December 7th, 2007 at 16:31
patetico
December 7th, 2007 at 17:04
The logo of Hu Nan are simply the very best of all the submissions. Outstanding good work!
December 8th, 2007 at 22:02
From the beginning till now , I knew that was a WONDERFUL CONTEST , and each step of the contest have conforted me in my opinion . Need one more proof ?! Ok . When the 12 were selected , I noticed something on Pashenko’s logo ( the 1rst prize ) … go to Youtube watching the video wich was on that website before . Patchenko’s logo appears after 10 seconds , watch it a moment and you will understand if you did not before .
December 11th, 2007 at 22:16
(I see a lot of reivindication here…) I put my works in the contest too, so my opinion will be veiled by envy and all that. I think the same as others: good logos indeed, but doesn’t follow the rules. In most contests, the first selection is to take out the unruly ones. BUT…
In this case the pre-selection is guided by votation, as in many TV contest. The most popular, not the better or more ’serious’ is the winner. I remember a TV contest in wich our company put more than 10,000 SMS artificially for one of the contestants -who is now a well known music star by his own merit-.
So don’t worry, boys. In older times, you put a lot of work and money in presenting a big 50×70 cardboard work and a portfolio only to discover the winner is other. That was bad. This is only a game.
Oh, personally I prefer the green marker of Ivan, but good luck to all three pre-winners!
December 19th, 2007 at 23:32
[...] Recibieron 1830 propuestas de logotipo, se quedaron con 12 entre las que había algunos realmente buenos. De los tres finalistas han cogido el más normalillo y encima lo han destrozado quedándose con solo un parte de la imagen que había hecho el diseñador. [...]
December 21st, 2007 at 03:26
resulto que al final se quedaron con un logo aburrido y corporativo nada que ver con el simpatico y diferente tio wong que remplazaron (por demas razones que muchos anteriormente se decidieran a usar sus servicios…en fin.)
pero por supuesto expertos son expertos que se le va a hacer.ja.
December 21st, 2007 at 17:16
Блин, я бы лучше сделал!
December 22nd, 2007 at 20:52
[...] Yarışmanın birincisi Çinden Hu Nan $6000 lık ödülün sahibi oldu. Daha önce ilk üçe kalan logoları görmek için buraya tıklayabilirsiniz. [...]
January 7th, 2008 at 23:39
Hu Nan’s is the best - definitely - I like it as a graphic-student very much :-)
January 25th, 2008 at 22:26
Ivan logo is just a little more suitable and acceptable by my personal opinion.
February 15th, 2008 at 23:53
merhaba gelli hevala. le bele logoye pırri zafh çe buyı. serkeftın…
March 7th, 2008 at 11:32
great!