BrioPointLogo Design Contest

Having commented on each and ranked the first 6 I thought some general comments were worthwhile.
I like strong greens (not necessarily dark (see design #1). I found it interesting when I looked at my first 4 that 2 were quite close to the deisgn brief (#1 and #9) and 2 have taken me off on another route (#6 and #4). So this may well be a contest between best answer for my design brief and best piece of original thought. And having said I don't like blues, when I see all the designs together it's #4 that grabs my eye.
I hope this guidance isn't too vague. I may be able to get more specific as we go through another iteration. I think next time (I'm learning) I'll go through an initial ranking before I comment so that I can see the favourites together.
Guys - thanks for your efforts - after 12 hours this is great and I am excited about the quality already

Guys. I have just been surfing the site looking at other competitions. I found one for the Innovation Management Institute which had a number of nice ideas for the stylised vortex. It may help you to know that our professional services methodology is built around three points on the vortex. Hope that helps

It helps a lot!
Thx.

Thanks to all, the quantity and quailty and variety are great.
My thinking seems to be falling into two camps right now: those who have followed the design brief and my comments (#25 for example) and those who have ignored it and have come up with something that is eyecatching (#4 for example). So don't be afraid to ditch the brief (or pay only lip service to it) in pursuit of something with wow factor. A couple of general comments
1. I am increasingly losing my fear of blue seeing it in use on the designs - orange and blue - not a combo I'd expect to work but it seems to
2. Don't be afriad to experiment with the position of the icon relative to the name

Thanks to you all for your efforts

Damn this is getting difficult - fun but difficult.
You will all note from my re-ranking that there are a couple of designs that have come in which have eschewed the 3 point vortex and have also gone with blue's and grey's. #41 #4 #44 benefit from simplicity so they are taking my eye.
Remember that I am looking to reuse the icon standalone in a number of ther ways (PPT slide bullets etc.) so it needs to be extractable
Also I think that the idea of all lower case for the company name is growing on me. I like the font in #4 for example and #38 was chosen over other similar designs for that reason.

Keep 'em coming and thanks again

My design number 6 rank 13 isa great design you can use the o in that logo as ur icons and so forth.

More comments soon but everything in the top 20 is a real contender right now. I'm going to get a second opinion over the next 24 hours to help me get clearer about colours in particular. Keep em coming!

how do u liek my newest?

Hi everyone
We've had to get really hard with ourselves because there are so many great ideas we were confusing ourselves. So we have shortlisted down to three basic ideas as you can see. If you didn't get on the short list, I want to thank you for the great work and effort you all put in. We're still happy to receive new ideas if you think they have real "wow" factor but we didn't want to put anyone to any unnecessary effort.
Final guidance
We like the simplicity and versatility of Mary's design (#41 #54 #55 #56 #73) same with bamba (#4 and #53) and we like the font from bamba. We like the movement and dynamism of J&R

The rankings now are in no particular order - any one of these could win

is mary123 have no other concepts?lol. The logo looks like something for inclined music.

Go Go Mary Go :)

thanks Mare

VectorGod - If I were you, I would probably concentrate on reading my brief and comments so that you can come up with a design that catches my eye, rather than dishing out unjustified critiscism of other competitors. She's on the shortlist because she's read the brief, thought about it, and come up with a design that looks good to me. And I am the customer after all.

Mary i just hope you will not end up like me in this one!

@thanks brio your contest giving me an opportunity n a very positive hope ......

thanks alot....


@mare no ill not end up bcoz this is my begining
for me appreciation is my achievment not money

Thats the way to go Mary! ;)

Mare. I'm really sorry we've moved away from your design as it was the front runner for quite a long time. The problem is as a start up we had a little more flexibility to let everybodys ideas move us in new directions. I have really appreciated your efforts and the quality of your work. I just needed to home in on a short list. I hope you don't feel badly dealt with. If you do I apologise.

So we're reaching the final stages. I want to thank everyone for an amazing effort. You're all very talented! First let me apologise for not commenting individually for the last 2 days. Other pressures of a start up have intervened. Second let me say that we now have a short list of three basic designs, and unless you have something you regard as stunning, I wouldn't waste any further efforts on us. We are still considering on or two late entries which are in the unranked section, but its' going to be hard to bust in to the top 3 now.

Once again, thanks to everyone. If I was a rich guy, I'd pay you all! Have a peaceful and prosperous 2009!