If I understand Scott Loftesness’ post, here’s an interesting idea. Some web sites (eg, Bank of America) use an image as part of their authentication scheme. Suppose instead they showed you an image of someone you know and asked you that person’s name? Okay, so maybe it’s not so great given that it’s not impossible to submit an image to a search engine. But still, I wonder if there’s a good idea in there trying to get out. Somehow using an image of someone as “something you know” seems appealing. Same, as Scott says, for “places you’ve been.” Hmmm…somthing there?
OTOH, maybe the facial thing isn’t so good for people like me. I have a mild (and self-diagnosed) case of prosopagnosia, so unless I’ve met you many times, I probably can’t recognize you. I can’t recognize any of those famous movie stars until I’ve seen them in lots of films, and I’m more easily fooled than most people by changes in hair and makeup.
Just two days left to go in the contest on 99designs.com. for a new logo and color palette for SpokenWord.org. (Here’s a version without the eliminated submissions.) We’d love your feedback on these designs. You can add your comments here or on the 99designs.com site.
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.