Being the comment junkie I am, I was thrilled to get to work and see the comments for yesterday’s SA Blog Awards post sitting on 16 - now 21 (yes I know I’m a nerd). What a great start to Valentine’s Day! Then I read them… yikes.

As Rafiq said there’s a lot of destructive criticism going on there.
Nicole, I applaud your effort – I hope you’re not sitting in some padded room rocking yourself to sleep because of all the negative comments (at least Smith loves you).

While I’m not really interested in whether any of the comments on the design are right or wrong (if you saw my stick man drawings you’d understand why), what I am interested in is why the focus of such an awesome project has moved from the big idea to a picture. To cut a long story short the SA Blog Awards are a fantastic idea and Quirk applauds the initiative!

It’s time to put your money where your mouth is
What we’ve decided to do is run an unofficial SA Blog Awards logo design competition and I expect fantastic designs from every single one of you who posted a negative comment - that includes you Mr “chip on my shoulder” Bayley ;-)

Send us your designs by the end of Wednesday the 28th of Feb we’ll stick ‘em all up on the blog, you tell us which you like best.

Quirk would like to invite Coda, John Cherry and Rich to help us pick the best design, you interested? You can totally submit designs of your own as the comments garnered will be a big deciding factor and I’ll just keep an eye out on your judging (and I can be somewhat scary from time to time – so no cheating).

So what do you get if you win? This is where it gets exciting, the winner of the unofficial logo design competition will receive an Apple TV (no I’m not shitting you… watch your language). Check it out:



Start working on your designs and have a FAB Valentine's Day!

UPDATE:
14 Feb, 6pm (local SA time)
As per usual Smith has made my day, today he did it by submitting the first design:

According to him, “I really do think mine is way better...a return to our roots… Nicole can have my Apple TV, a Mac Mini is infinitely better”.

UPDATE:
20 Feb, 4pm (local SA time)

The following three designs were submitted by Solveig Bosch:

Design 1


Design 2


Design 3


Thanks Solveig - good luck!

UPDATE:
21 Feb, 4:10pm (local SA time)

The following two designs were submitted by Rheinier du Plooy

Design 1



Design 2



Thanks Rheinier!

P.S - I'm still waiting for the critics of the original design to send in their designs!!!

UPDATE:
22 Feb, 7.15am (local SA time)

Sean Orsmond submitted his 'Throw the Blog a Bone!' logo yesterday along with the very amusing creative thought process that went in to the design:
Using an eager, yappy 'chatty' pup as a metaphor for bloggers (eager to tell you stuff / expose themselves / get noticed???). They were very good so you are rewarding them.
And what does a dog love to get as a reward? A bone to chew on and brag to the other dogs about.




The dog is modeled on his own pup Tarquin, who must be a total cutie if this is anything to go by.
Good Luck Sean!

UPDATE:
22 Feb, 8am (local SA time)

The following 3 designs were submitted by one of Quirk’s own designers, Gavin Dale.

Design1

Design 2

Design 3


Good luck Gav!

UPDATE:
23Feb, 7am (local SA time)

The following 8 designs were submitted by Lazlo Kissimon:

Design1


Design 2

Design 3

Design 4


Design 5

Design 6

Design 7

Design 8

Count Lazlo of Demio Caldraoniom, westerm front of Mulfrevio – the Princess wishes you luck!

UPDATE:
23Feb, 9am (local SA time)

Cost accountant Anwar Jacobs who spends his evenings dreaming that he is something else submitted the following 2 designs:

Design 1

Design 2

Raymond Loumeau submitted this one:

Good luck lads!

UPDATE:
23Feb, 10:40am (local SA time)

Mark Forrester submitted this design:

You like? Start giving us some feedback on the designs.

UPDATE:
26Feb, 6pm (local SA time)

Marc from Durbzblog submitted these two designs over the weekend:

Design 1



Design 2

UPDATE:
27Feb, 2pm (local SA time)

Mobeen Mustappa submitted this design:

UPDATE:
27Feb, 2:30pm (local SA time)

Leigh Dawber submitted these two designs:

Design 1:

Design 2:


UPDATE:
27Feb, 2:40pm (local SA time)

Michael "Blogs are about expression" Amery submitted the following design:


Janes Struweg submitted this number:



Very glam, Janes!

Good luck designers, deadline's tomorrow so keep 'em coming.

UPDATE:
27Feb, 6pm (local SA time)

Charl de Klerk submitted this design:


Kailash Maharaj submitted the following 2 designs:

Design1:


Design 2:



David submitted this one:



Mark Prins submitted the following 5 designs:

Design 1:



Design 2:



Design 3:



Design 4:



Design 5:



UPDATE:
28Feb, 2:30pm (local SA time)

Hey everyone,
I'll be posting all the designs in the morning. Please send us your comments. The winner will be announced on Monday. Good Luck!

Sarah