Well, this was exciting reading. Ten weeks ago David Airey embarked on the Logo Design Love Awards series. He put a ton of work into it, and it shows.
Several days back, he posted the Logo Design Love Reader Appreciation Awards.
Then, several hours ago (and right when I was rushing off to dinner), he posted the Logo Design Love Awards judges’ verdict.
The comparison between the readers and the judges is quite interesting. (Note: below is the category comparison. The placement from the judges have been added where they fall).
Business blogs
Judges: Joe Urban | 1st place (12 points)
Readers: Big
Entertainment blogs
Judges: Vulture | 2nd place (6 points)
Readers: sk*rt
3rd place: Undies Drawer
Miscellaneous
Judges: Simply Recipes | 4th place (4 points)
Readers: Karly Barrett
Personal blogs
Judges: Dooce | Joint 5th place (3 points)
Readers: Kristin Östblad
Joint 5th place: Found Gallery Blog, Diseñorama, Dumb Little Man
Design and photography blogs
Judges: BrandBerry | Joint 9th place (2 points)
Readers: Just Creative Design
Environmental blogs
Judges: EcoGeek | Joint 9th place (2 points)
Readers: EcoGeek
Technology blogs
Judges: Uncrate | Joint 9th place (2 points)
Readers: Boing Boing Gadgets
Joint 9th place: POPSUGAR, De Ouro, TreeHugger
Joint 15th place: FontStruct, Just Creative Design, sk*rt
Health and self-development blogs
Judges: CalorieLab
Readers: Emergiblog
Marketing and PR blogs
Judges: Idea Sandbox
Readers: Hubspot
Political blogs
Judges: Democracy Now!
Readers: Democracy Now!
As one of the judges I found the whole process rather interesting. As the entries were varied in subject and such, I decided to keep pretty much to The Six Universal Attributes Of a Great Mark.
Well, except for a few points. I took out one. Distinctive. And added one of my own. Memorable.
Below are the other judges donating time and comments to the awards:
- Megan Patrick, Senior Editor at HOW magazine
- Armin Vit of UnderConsideration LLC
- Adrian Hanft of Be A Design Group
- David Pache of dache
- Steve Delahoyde, Co-Editor of UnBeige
- Alissa Walker, previously of UnBeige, and now Gelatobaby
- Jeff Andrews of Design Inspiration and Sugar Frosted Goodness
- John Martz of Drawn!
David deserves a standing ovation for doing a bang-up job on the logo design awards. Dontcha think?
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Hi Cat,
Thanks for the props, and for the great overview of the awards!
Safe journey back to Thailand.
David Airey’s last blog post..A few logo designs not yet featured
My pleasure David. The comments on your blog have been quite interesting as they come through, so I’ll be keeping an eye out as I travel along (thank goodness for Wifi :-)