Design a 'better' Windows 8 logo, win 300 dollars
Summary: A "for fun" contest is being held to find a designer who can create a better Windows 8 logo than the one Microsoft recently unveiled. Thought it's for fun, it's also going to be for profit for the winner!
As of the time of this writing, you have 8 hours left to design a Windows 8 logo that you feel is better than the freshly-announced logo! Held on 99designs.com "for fun" by Archon Systems, Inc., lots of designers are showing up to ultimately make a quick $295 if their design is the winner. Check out some of the entries below (click the image for a larger view):
You can view the crowd favorites by sorting the results by highest-rated, or just click here.
As many of you know, Microsoft recently unveiled the new Windows 8 logo and responses have been quite polarizing, to say the least. It does nothing for me, but I suppose I'm beginning to get used to seeing it around. If you've not seen it yet, here it is:
What are your thoughts about the new logo? Personally, I love some of what's been submitted to the 99designs.com contest far more than the official logo. And, hey... at the very least, this contest is bringing out some rather humorous renditions of the logo from some of the participants, like this one:
Naturally, that looks terrible, but it's supposed to (at least, I think it is...). So, to all you designers out there, get on it! Though it's all in good fun, a $300 payday and possible recognition for creating a better Windows logo than the Windows team isn't too shabby!
-Stephen Chapman
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RE: Design a 'better' Windows 8 logo, win 300 dollars
RE: Design a 'better' Windows 8 logo, win 300 dollars
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RE: Design a 'better' Windows 8 logo, win 300 dollars
LOL! Agreed!
the way this site works (or doesn't, if you prefer) yeah I agree that anyone on this site knows how to design
Faulty logic.
RE: Design a 'better' Windows 8 logo, win 300 dollars
RE: Design a 'better' Windows 8 logo, win 300 dollars
does that have a penguin in ti? ;)
RE: Design a 'better' Windows 8 logo, win 300 dollars
Well.... I needed Linux for a trivial bit of development and decided to install Ubuntu. If I had any doubts that it was possible to make a worse desktop than Windows 8, Ubuntu with unity is it. Needless to say, I ended up loading Fedora. Yes I could have ripped out the Unity bits, but that would reward Canonical for their stupidity. I want no part of it.
For all those in love with Windows 8 on the desktop, I encourage them to take a good look at a desktop that seems to be hostile to the notion of multitasking in spite of the fact I have a 26 inch monitor with plenty of room for an array of windows.
Finger friendly? To be sure I did have the urge to use a finger, but not the one the developers intended.
RE: Design a 'better' Windows 8 logo, win 300 dollars
RE: Design a 'better' Windows 8 logo, win 300 dollars
Current Windows 8 logo = Fading into oblivion
Windows 8 is Vista 2.0
The original one is still better