And so we have a winner. In the end I went with my gut instinct - I loved this little guy from the moment I saw him, I think he's iconic and original, and I'm looking forward to seeing him in action in the coming months.

Once again, a massive thank you to everyone involved. I've really missed coming back here and refreshing the page feverishly in the last week, and it's been very difficult realising that I'm not going to be able to use some of this amazing work. A few particular thanks:

- evilponger, obviously, for the winning design.
- Shihab's, for his brilliant, compact designs which kept coming right up until the end.
- kelpo and ritebrainr, whose illustrations I think are amazing, creative and original.
- Mictoon, for an incredible collection of original and creative faces.
- zellians, who drew great stuff throughout, and right at the end introduced the cutest little guy in the contest.
- vroegs, for making my girlfriend's favourite design. ;)
- Sergdesign, for my early favourite which I still find very memorable.

And many more. I hope there are no hard feelings, and the very best of luck to all of you in future contests!

Just wanted to say a massive thank-you to everybody for all their hard work, right up until the end of the contest. I'll be talking to colleagues, friends and clients over the weekend to get some feedback before finalizing everything - I obviously have some personal favourites as you can see from my ratings over the last week, but it's by no means cut and dried just yet.

I expect to award the prize early next week, hopefully that's not too long of a wait!

Finally, apologies to anyone who felt that they didn't get the right sort of feedback from me, or that the brief wasn't as good as it could be. All I can say is that I'm really happy with the designs that came in, so somehow we got there in the end. :)

Shameless copying will get you eliminated, obviously.

And we're there, so I'm off to bed. Apparently I'm only at 98% feedback, so I've missed someone (sorry!), but if anyone at all feels they're not getting the feedback they need then by all means raise it here or private message me.

We're past the half-way stage now, and we're still getting interesting stuff every day, from existing and new designers. Hopefully that'll continue right up until the finish line - thanks to everyone once again for your hard work! :)