The Wong and Only Logo Contest receives more than 1800 submissions!
We´ve reached the end of the first phase in the search for a new logo. Graphic artists and web designers all over the world were called to submit their designs and the results are astounding. A total of 3241 designers registered and over 1800 designs were uploaded. This makes Mister Wong’s logo contest, by far, the one of the biggest so-called “crowdsourcing” contests held by a web 2.0 company.
These are the top 10 participating countries:
694 x Germany
476 x France
209 x Spain
186 x China
155 x Mexico
141 x Russia
115 x USA
113 x Colombia
99 x Argentina
76 x Switzerland
Thank you to all the participants, and stay tuned for the voting process to begin. We will inform you within the next couple of days when the voting will begin.
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September 13th, 2007 at 18:32
[...] Tom Green wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptWe´ve reached the end of the first phase in the search for a new logo. Graphic artists and web designers all over the world were called to submit their designs and the results are astounding. A total of 3241 designers registered and … [...]
September 14th, 2007 at 01:27
why do you present logos that clearly DO NOT FIT IN YOUR GUIDLINES ???
this is in my opinion a very bad way of crowdsourcing.
September 14th, 2007 at 23:17
Hello,
I’m thin k also that it’s will be easier to vote for only a little number of logos that you choose before, no ?
Friendly
September 16th, 2007 at 07:01
Exactly what I was thinking Svetlana;-)
This is really overwhelming and I beleive things have to be realigned on the track …
September 18th, 2007 at 01:05
this contest has a very bad system! even those designs with logotypes edited (w/c is against the rules) are posted. this has gone crazy. yet, the wong team are so proud of it. well they shouldn’t be. not unless this voting issues has been resolved. I say, we say, the best logos should be voted by the judges alone and not the people at all. or the judges are probably just too lazy to look up all 1800 logos, aren’t they?
September 18th, 2007 at 10:17
I hope the judges read this blog and respond on the request on
that the best thing will be that you (the judges) are choosing the final logos.
This will be the most professional solution to select the best logo.
Good luck !
September 18th, 2007 at 14:33
I think a mix of both would be best: let the jury pick, say, 50-100 favorites for the public voting (take out the logos that are obviously against the rules or don’t fit otherwise and then pick what you like best). Then the crowd votes 12 favorites, and from these 12 favorites the jury makes the final decision. That way quality issues would be resolved and still there would be some influence from the community.
September 18th, 2007 at 18:38
After participating in this contest, doing what the terms said, I still haven’t seen my logos!
But what I really want to write about (and yes it is critics), is that I think this contest is totally UNprofessional!
The reasons are more than one:
1: The “work” of voting makes you go through 62 pages/1843 logos.
Do you really think everyone care to do that?
2: The voting itself includes mostly jokes and not serious comments + a lot of good friends trying to make their friend a winner.
3: A lot of the designs doesn’t fit the terms and laws, but are still in the contest.
4: The jury leaves the work to the public, but how will they make the final decision from all the unserious comments? I hope it´s not about the numbers of comments! That´s still a BIG question to me?
5: By arranging this crowd surfing contest, Mister Wong gets free commercial, because all participants will tell people about it, so they´ll have their votes. There is nothing wrong about that, but a smart commercial stunt from Mister Wong’s side.
And by the way I noticed that the numbers of uploaded logos rise and fall and still I see new logos. I´m not sure if that means that you delete some of them?
And what about updating some facts more often? For example I have no idea how long the voting will go on?
September 21st, 2007 at 15:34
I agree with Danielle
Best regards..
September 24th, 2007 at 07:49
no one is replying,
just let it go… :(
September 24th, 2007 at 18:28
about the possibilty of a fake contest … we are waiting they have finished uploaded all logos to see the voting process starting ! oh really , they were not prepared ? they expected 100 logos for an international contest ? Still we wait because they are uploading all logos … but for more than two weeks , i did not see any new logo and the number of logo does not increase either ! Then ???
September 25th, 2007 at 23:43
Is the voting about to start?
Thanks,