Hmm, if it was predictable, why didn't you create the logo yourself and won the contest?

Dear all,

Thank you so much for providing so many brilliant contributions! This is more that we could ever hope for. I hope you understand that we would have wished to provide more extensive feedback to all of you, but with this number of contributions time has been a real bottle neck for us.
We are very happy with our choice which we think fulfills all our criteria: Credible, corporate, academic, conservative yet alive, creative and unique.

Thanks again and best of luck to you!

PolitiCo

Hi,

final comments before the weekend: CREDEBILITY is the key criterion to fulfill! Academic and corporate credibility in one.
I tend to like when colors are not plain flat, but when they give a conservative and yet dynamic feel. I am not an expert, but I think it has to do with how you managae the light in the colors just a little tiny bit to lift them up from the dead without making them look like a light show.
Also, ligth blue has not appealed to me yet and I dont think it will.

Good luck,

PolitiCo

Ok, I have started to eliminate suggestions to make it easier for us to have an overview.
Comments about symbols:
1) They are secondary. Definitely nice to have, but the image of the text and colors theme is more important.
2) I think it needs to be simple and easy to recognize. Blury ones with winding ends has not been to our liking so far.
Comment about the name/text:
It seems like the key challenge is to make the company name look conseravtive but not dead. How can it look alive and a bit dynamic while keeping a strict conservative touch? We have seen some very interesting and subtle variations with letter size, boldness and shade/color. Keep it up! Interesting that nobody has tried only lower case spelling...

Keep 'em coming! There is still plenty of room for more angles. And if you think I am wrong about my comments or if you have other ideas, I do not want to kill your creativity. Creativity is what we are here for!

Cheers,

PolitiCo

Comments regarding the grading system. I realize it looks harsh to put so few stars, but as I have mentioned I am impressed by many of the contributions. My grading system from now on works like this:
One star: We don't see a potential winner
Two stars: There is something in the contribution worth building on
Three stars: We like the concept as a whole and it definately has potential
Four or five stars: This is a potential winner as it is

PolitiCo

Hi again,

Again, you guys are very impressive! Not all of you strike what I think is the right note, but that is just a matter of taste, of course. I appologize for not leaving as much feed back as you deserve sometimes, but my time is scarce.
A general comment/request is that it is good for me to get a picture of the whole theme that the logo necesarily is or will be a part of. This is easiest when you fill a whole page with more than just one expression for the theme. Good examples of this is #20, #37 and #38. For isolated logos I tend to have a much harder time to know how I feel about it, and hence leave less comments also.

Sincerely,

PolitiCo