BitbucketLogo Design Contest

Logo Design Contest
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Bitbucket has selected their winning logo design.

For $350 they received 233 designs from 54 different designers from around the world.

Logo Design Brief

Client
Netherlands
Slogan
We're here to serve.
What We Do
We're an online hosting site for Mercurial repositories (rather technical stuff, has to do with version control, like subversion or CVS.)
Industry
Internet
Color Preferences
Blue, Gray
Our Ideas & Additional Information
Our current website with logo: http://bitbucket.org/

Current logo looks more like an icon, and we want to move away from that.
Themes
Refined

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Discussion

 
Client
Just as a sidenote: It needs to work well on light backgrounds, like pure white and also light gray.

I'll keep posting thoughts/criticism as entries come in.
15 years ago
 
Client
I should note that we are considering allowing text-only logos (no bucket, or the bucket could be part of a letter, or something like that.)
15 years ago
 
Client
OK, thanks everyone for your submissions, and now for the first round of feedback.

Some of them are a bit too "verbose", like #5, #6 and #7. The flying bits on #14 and #15 are nice, but they make the logo too noisy. #24 and #25 are too tall and also a bit too verbose.

What we like best so far is the "one row" submissions, like #1, #2, #18, #26 and #27. The logo needs to fit into many purposes, like on the top of a website (like we have currently on bitbucket.org), business cards, and possibly print (including stickers, etc.)

It would be nice if the font used was a bit more sophisticated and timeless, rather than something "playful" or standard (verdana, arial). We like Akzidenz-Grotesk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akzidenz_Grotesk) and Myriad (Pro also.)

In short, the bit metaphor is good, but needs to be refined a bit, same goes for the bucket. Neither of which are *required* to be in the logo. The slogan isn't required either, as we can add that ourselves.
15 years ago
 
Logo Designer
You should rank this contest , we don't know what exactly you want
15 years ago
 
Client
Thanks, Scott. I've marked a bunch as interesting and some as non-interesting. The rest I've left, since we're not loving, nor hating them.

Hope this helps.
15 years ago
 
Logo Designer
Could you please rank some logos beyond the contest winner? We all put precious time into creating these logo ideas and would really appreciate a few minutes of your time.
15 years ago
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