Crowdsourcing For New EGF Logo

[Uberdude]

I suppose Michal Czub's would get my vote.

[Bantari]

I don't know what you guys are griping about. I think the logos are pretty decent, all in all.
Below is my opinion.

Top one for me:
Agnė Kardelytė - My vote would definitely go for this one. I really like his design. Its sharp, hip, scalable, and made me think of Go. And I find it graphically appealing. And, unlike the other designs, would save on ink when printed, heh...

Bottom one for me:
Michal Czub - This one I would definitely reject, period. It might be interesting graphically and design-wise, but I see no relevance here. Even worse, having looked at biotech-related designs over the past decade, this is where I would place instinctively the logo's relevance - in biotech.

Still, because of the nationality of the designer, a big part of me wishes Czub's is the one they pick... go figure.

The rest:
Milos Bojanic - nice, but I feel it is too cartoonish. Might be good image for a flyer or campaign or something, though.
Caroline Boelle 1 & 2 - pretty OK as logos go. Personally, I find them a little too predictable, too dry, too old-fashioned-corporate, and too generic. But certainly doable as logos.

[Bantari]

Those logos are absurdly large pdfs. a logo should be 100 kB or so tops. Can someone make a page with those logos in a realistic size and format for better judgement. If a logo looks awesome in photoshop but crap in a 50 kB gif then it's a crap logo.

I think this is how designers usually submit design ideas.
And from the fact that they all have similar format, I would say this was also a requisite of the contest.

[DrStraw]

I suppose Michal Czub's would get my vote.

Which just goes to show how different we all are and how hard it is to please everyone. That would have been my last choice.

[betterlife]

Those logos are absurdly large pdfs. a logo should be 100 kB or so tops. Can someone make a page with those logos in a realistic size and format for better judgement. If a logo looks awesome in photoshop but crap in a 50 kB gif then it's a crap logo.

I think this is how designers usually submit design ideas.
And from the fact that they all have similar format, I would say this was also a requisite of the contest.

True, it was a requisite to go to the final selection. The first round had no restrictions and this was probably one reason we've got so many entries (over 50). I will send out a reminder email with screenshot images of the 5 logos to make it easier for the voters to compare the logos and find a final decision.

[tapir]

In the Czub logo I only see an enlarged western half of Europe (arbitrarily cut off at the eastern border of Estonia, Latvia and southwards from there), maybe that would be suitable for an EU affiliated body, but I can not imagine it for the EGF (w/ Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Israel among its more important members, to name just a few).

I would favour Kardelyte as well.

[Uberdude]

Whilst it is true that Czub's has the problem of not showing all members, that's the first time I've heard Estonia being referred to as Western Europe.

[DrStraw]

Whilst it is true that Czub's has the problem of not showing all members, that's the first time I've heard Estonia being referred to as Western Europe.

If Israel is in Europe then why can't Estonia be in western Europe? You could even let it be in Asia if it wants.

[tapir]

Whilst it is true that Czub's has the problem of not showing all members, that's the first time I've heard Estonia being referred to as Western Europe.

You got the idea. It is "European Union" Europe, west, south, central. (Where I live, Estonia is almost exclusively referred to as baltic, never as eastern, btw.) Now compare that map to the list of European champions, the new professional players or the top20.