Finalists (yes, there are a lot of them!) are #3, #108 by A d, #21 by customlogo, #2, #37, #38, #41, #51, #79, #90, #101 by mithrill, #47, #78 by eschol, #57 by yavan, #87 by Joe Girolam, #89 Meko6, #95, #96 by hananedz, #97 by Hue Central #98, #106, #113 by lansiq, #100 by nossignor, #112 by setient, #117 djredsky

Thank you for all of your terrific designs. What a fascinating experience. It was my first time using 99designs.com.

I am now going to survey our team to select a winner. I expect to announce the contest winner in approximately 24 hours.

Note to Designers: We have a lot of "judges" here, so immediately upon completion of the contest I'm going to publish an internal survey asking our team members to vote on their favorite designs. The survey will be open for 24 hours after the end of this contest at which time we will select the winner.

mithrill: I can't keep up with you! :-)

There are four designers still in the running with a number of good designs.

* ‘mithrill’ has submitted many good designs. #2 is the original. I steered him away from the Halloween-ish colors and the reflection, but I wonder if the reflection shouldn’t be brought back. It looks cool. I was just worried about the clutter. #36 is his first with the .org turned on its side, which I like. #36 though #43 are primarily just different palettes. #51 has a new palette and shows three different alignments of the elements. I like the square one in the upper left, but I also like the one in bottom center for situations where we need something more horizontal. The upper-right version doesn’t have the abstract ‘W’ so it loses that concept. Same for #52: looks nice but I miss the second set of bars. #41 and #43 are still on the page just for the sake of different color choices. I don’t like the bars slanting towards the top right as much as the original design. In summary, I think the design if #36, #37 and #38 may be mithrill’s best (but without the dashed line). All he needs is to work on colors, and we have to help him.

* ‘A d’ has submitted #3, which remains one of the most popular according to email I’ve received from the team. My primary concern is that when it’s small, it’s very hard to see/read SpokenWord. Also, the ‘.org’ really does look tacked on, to me. This was the first of the designs with a bubble. Others have copied it, but not as well.

* ‘customlogo’ has two left. I don’t think #19 is a serious contender, but I do like its clean look. #21 is also very clean and I like the use of color. The pattern of dots makes me think of both ‘digital/bits’ and of a VU meter. Elegant.

* ‘yavan’ submitted #57. Also probably not a serious contender, but again it’s simple. The bubble concept is there, but it’s the container for the whole thing. Very nice.