After a week of voting on the Top Logo Designs of 2010 the voting has now closed and we are pleased to announce the 2010 Logo Of The Year…
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1st Place: Optimistic Beverages
Logo for an exploratory group hoping to start a craft brewery in Austin! (They did!)
Credits: Helms Workshop
2nd Place: Six Pixels of Separation
Six Pixels of Separation blog.
Credits: TwistiImage
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3rd Place: HACI
The Hope for African Children Initiative (HACI) is a pan-African effort created to address the enormous challenges faced by millions of African children who have either been orphaned by AIDS or live with parents who are sick or dying from AIDS-related illnesses.
Credits: Unknown (Please let me know if you know)
Poll Results
Thank you everyone for your votes! Also, please feel free to suggest a logo for your chance to win a Logo Of The Day award, or maybe even Logo Of The Year.
And the winner isn’t even a logo.
Pretty cool, I like the winner. It’s so outside the box.
I prefer HACI than the others
Daniel,
What do you mean it’s not a logo?
@Jacob Cass
It’s not a logo for an existing company.
Where is the art of thinking up a *pun* and then drawing it?
I think all these (well meaning) logo awards make up the numbers with really clever and well executed *puns*. There is no company called “Optimistic Beverges”, and in my experience if there was, they would pass up this smart logo for just the words in *Arial Black* in a second.
Optimistic Beverages is sooo cool!
Daniel,
I understand where you are coming from re the ‘pun’ logos, and I’ve talked about these ‘fake logos‘ before on this blog. Logo of the Day has a strict ‘No fictional logos’ rule for this reason, though we do allow unused proposals. As far as my knowledge goes, this particular logo was for a start up craft brewery which was later developed into Austin Beerworks.
Hi Jacob,
I definitely love our work! and the way you share your “adventure”!
Plus, excellent discussion here.
Congrats and keep on moving!
Laura
Interesting. Great concepts, but any graphic that requires colour, transparency, and three-dimensionality to work effectively is not really a logo. That said, I love the “Optimistic Beverages” concept, its application would just be far too limited in any use case beyond the computer screen.
I love the Optimistic Beverages concept, but graphically is a little clip arty. The same idea could have been more graphically exciting.
I don’t see why this would be considered a fake logo at all. It symbolizes a very real project, the proposal for a brewery. Isn’t that what a logo is meant for?
Love the winning logos. Creative indeed.
Great post Jacob, my personal favourite was the magic custom software logo.
Interesting debate with Daniel too. We all know design is about communication and problem solving, so if that’s true then it’s hard to praise fictional logos. As daniel says, it’s easy to come up with a pun then design a logo to match, the tough part of design is to come up with something really clever when the brand is boring and uninspiring.
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I liked HACI Logo. Its strong enough to communicate the idea behind the logo.
Hi,
I like your great collections and i like the logo of HACI Logo.
Love your work and the logo.
Wow is the only word that describes this logo.
i like the logo that is on 2nd position,six pixels of separation ,nice thought behind the logo design.
In my point of view the logo “Six Pixels of Separation “is very nice and effective when compared to other things like optimistic beverages and HACI.
I dont think the winner of this is a very original idea at all.
I created a logo very similar to the winner of this contest over 5 years ago. Its been on my website for almost 4 years. Im not saying this to accuse theft, merely to suggest that the “glass half full” concept, has been there, done that, by myself included! here’s a link: http://vanpaul.com/logo_design/images/creativeoptimist.jpg
I like the all collection. but HACI logo concept is awesome
Nice Logo. I love HACI logo so much.
i like the logo that is on 2nd position,six pixels of separation ,nice thought behind the logo design.
nice logo with a smooth symbol and there’s no copy from other source.
The logo looks very good
creative logo
Form my perspective, this logo is quite unique and innovative.it has a symbolic significance and representativeness.To be honest, it is wonderful.
I love the “Optimistic Beverages” concept, its application would just be far too limited in any use case beyond the computer screen. thank u ..gud one
this particular logo was for a start up craft brewery which was later developed into Austin Beerworks.
In my point of view the logo “Six Pixels of Separation “is very nice and effective when compared to other things like optimistic beverages and HACI.
I like the first logo its so simplistic and nice.