The end of Comic Sans? SmugMug's search for a new logo!

onethumb

We're finally doing it. Many of you *love* our logo as-is. Many of you *hate* our logo as-is. We've been stuck in a quandary over what to do for years (and busy making a great service, great logo or no), but we've finally decided to see if the Internet can help us out.

That means you, too! Our new logo contest is open to all, so if you create art, hop in on in. If you don't, please take the time to go vote!

$5K is on the line, so hopefully we'll get a great logo and make someone's day at the same time.

Oh, and while browsing crowdSPRING, if you see any great artists we just have to get involved, post them in this thread and I'll specifically invite them to join our project.

Check it out: http://www.crowdspring.com/project/2285414_rebrand-one-of-the-biggest-sites-on-the-internet/

Thanks, as always, for all your great feedback. It's been the backbone of our success, and hopefully it'll help us come up with a great new logo as well.

Malte

Cool! Will the winning entry be the new logo, or will the artist win the commission to create the logo?

Wow, lots of people don't know the letter ü, or they're trying to make a pun out of it. Either way, not a good idea.

Tumblebee is my favourite artist so far.

Malte

Andy

It might be the logo... or we could work with that artist, too on a variant, or new design. We'll see!

JAG

got my fingers crossed...just wish there was more feedback.

Malte

I hearted (Is that voting?) this one:

http://www.crowdspring.com/project/2285414_rebrand-one-of-the-biggest-sites-on-the-internet/entry/2646931_smugmug/

Elegant, but still a bit smug...

Malte

Jeroen

Just noticed this and saw the deadline has passed. Too bad.
Anyway, I agree with Malte, that is a good looking logo indeed. I'd just go for that one too.

Andy

Jeroen wrote: »

Just noticed this and saw the deadline has passed. Too bad.
Anyway, I agree with Malte, that is a good looking logo indeed. I'd just go for that one too.

:nono ends July 7th, 2010

JAG

wow! over a 1000 entries! You all got your work cut out for yourselves!

drome

Thank you for:

1) recognizing the Comic Sans is the brunt of most typography jokes
2) providing a real prize fee of $5k

W.W. Webster

According to the web site, if SmugMug doesn't decide the winner in four days, CrowdSpring will!

hoffmcs

I thought this was pretty relevant. From http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/61259

Looking forward to the refresh!

scritch

Well, guys, how was the experience for you? It looks like you changed out the home page logo, but not with the winning design. How was the process for you, and the >4,000 entries, all of that?