The 2012 Logo of The Year

The 2012 Logo of The Year

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After a month of voting on the Top Logo Designs of 2012 the voting has now closed and I am pleased to announce the 2012 Logo Of The Year. Thanks for your votes.

You can view the top logos of 2009 and 2010 and 2011 here.

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The 2012 Logo Of The Year

Boss Hunting Logo

Boss Hunting is a popular Facebook group that shares images of what it is to live the high life (or be ‘boss’). Images are mostly of luxurious locations, consumer goods, beautiful women, famous actors etc.

Credits: Misteree

Second Place: Organ Donation

Organ Donation Logo

Brief: “To design the corporate identity for an organ donation initiative. Since it was our only tool of communication, the design had to instantly convey the message of organ donation. Whatever we designed had to strike an emotional chord and subtly prompt people to open up to the idea.”


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Credits: DDB

Third Place: Boundary

Boundary Logo

Boundary is the application performance monitoring solution designed for distributed application environments. Boundary addresses two critical challenges faced by DevOps professionals: the need to immediately see and understand the impact of a rapidly changing application together with a significantly higher degree of visibility. Process.

Credits: Stephen Boak

Fourth Place: Chair Entertainment

Chair Entertainment Logo

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ChAIR Entertainment Group, founded in 2005, is a video game production company committed to creating blockbuster entertainment franchises through development of its original intellectual properties. ChAIR introduced the action, sword-fighting adventure for iOS. “Infinity Blade” raised the bar of handheld gaming and received numerous Game of the Year and Editor’s Choice Awards in 2010. The award-winning follow up to ChAIR’s groundbreaking iOS sword-fighting adventure, , “Infinity Blade II” combines addictive gameplay, breathtaking visuals and an engrossing story to deliver the definitive blockbuster experience exclusively on Apple’s world-class gaming platforms, and has gone on to win more than 20 Game of the Year and Editor’s Choice awards.

Credits: Aaron Walser

The Poll Results

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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.

35 thoughts on “The 2012 Logo of The Year”

  1. Second should definitely be the first place. Can’t understand why Boss Hunting is the first place here – second, third and fourth place are better than first.

  2. The idea behind the Boundary logo is good but It amazes me that it got so many votes since it make it so hard to actually read the company name, that renders the logo useless.

  3. I loved boundary. It has a great design that makes you look at it twice. Boss hunting is simple yet still clever. Organ donation is clever, but I think it try’s a bit to hard to be obvious. Good works though!

  4. I find it extremely humbling that one of my designs has been recognised in this way, especially since all logos in the top 12 were equally, if not more deserving of first place.

  5. I am agreed with haduseldu. The number 2 deserves to be the first. All of them are very creative to see and outstanding but my vote is for number 2.

  6. great selection Jacob, all of them are really great concepts, my favorite is The Organ Donation, it is really meaningful, I hope some day my logo could be in your list 🙂

  7. I think “Boss Hunting” is first mainly because of the “cool” name, the logo itself really is not that outstanding, nice idea though.
    “organ donation” is definitely good, but i.m.o. lacks a little bit of sensitivity; the style should be more serious.
    “Boundary” is excellent and i would vote it on place two.
    My favorite is “Chair” with it’s absolute simpleness.

  8. Very interesting article. The boss hunting certainly is a really good logo. Their are many other ones I really like too. The organ donation and chair really caught my attention right away.

    Adan M Garcia

  9. All logos are amazing. But my choice is 3rd logo. This is so nice. Thanks for this great post.

  10. All these logos are amazing but my choice is the 3rd logo. This is so nice. Thanks for this great post.

  11. great selection Jacob, all of them are really great concepts, my favorite is The Organ Donation, it is really meaningful, I hope some day my logo could be in your list 🙂

  12. thanks for sharing….my sequence would be …second, third, first, and fourth. beautifully represented the theme. awesome work.

  13. I loved boundary. It has a great design that makes you look at it twice. Boss hunting is simple yet still clever. Organ donation is clever, but I think it try’s a bit to hard to be obvious. Good works though!

  14. Logo that came on second place is just genious. But my favourite is still logo on the third place. I actually didn’t even like that much logo that won..

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