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We have a winner!
Thanks to everyone who submitted logos to our contest! We had 24 entries from all over the world including China, India, and Polynesia. We really appreciated the creativity, effort and good will towards MR featured in the contest. After much thought we settled on a great design by Jacob Morse of Volo Creative. We will use the logo as a link on other web pages and may redesign our banner in a similar style. We had many great entries, I've featured three of my other favorites in the extension. Comments are open.
From Orlando Ribas:
From Abhishek in India.
From dsr.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on May 12, 2006 at 07:15 AM in The Arts | Permalink
Comments
It reminds me of another logo I've seen, but I can't quite place it. Something in telecom maybe? Cable TV? Anyone else get that feeling?
I prefer the one designed by Orlando Ribas, but I certainly wish you success with your choice.
Posted by: carpundit at May 12, 2006 8:28:56 AM
I like the Ribas one also but the one you picked is good also.
Posted by: jmike at May 12, 2006 8:31:55 AM
I think the one by Mr. Ribas is far superior. However, the winner is good too.
Posted by: Richard at May 12, 2006 8:48:31 AM
Nice choice. All the entries are well done.
Posted by: Commenterlein at May 12, 2006 8:49:04 AM
It looks a bit like the Juno logo.
http://www.juno.com/
Posted by: mschrist at May 12, 2006 9:01:12 AM
I have to go with Mr. Ribas design as well. It has far better depth and seems to pop from the page. Mr. Morse design does include a graphic depicting a curve maybe more appropriate for an economics blog than the three circles in Mr. Ribas logo.
Posted by: DJB at May 12, 2006 9:09:54 AM
I hope my marginal revolution curve is upward sloping to the right.
Posted by: Bob at May 12, 2006 9:48:24 AM
The logo is very nice but the font underneath is headache-inducing.
You should put the "Marginal" in green on the blue field and the "Revolution" in blue on the green field.
Posted by: KipEsquire at May 12, 2006 10:05:37 AM
I like it; in my mind it will represent the law of demand (that has remained an operationally corroborated LAW for over 200 years, notwithstanding all kinds of mathematically complex, non-operational theories that postulate demand curves that slope upward).
Posted by: jim at May 12, 2006 10:26:27 AM
I think picked the best one. The Ribas logo is actually a bit hard for me to read, for some reason. PLus, the chosen logo can use just the green/blue square (without words) as a wordless trademark. It would make a great favicon too (to replace the white-on-green MR used now).
My second choice would be the lined paper by dsr., although I'm not sure how I feel about his crooked globe-spin lines.
Posted by: Brock at May 12, 2006 11:14:00 AM
I immediately got the Saturn deja vu
Posted by: caveatBettor at May 12, 2006 11:31:20 AM
Or you could turn the curve around for the Production Possibility Frontier
http://www.netmba.com/images/econ/micro/production/possibility/ppf.gif
Posted by: Mr. Econotarian at May 12, 2006 11:35:53 AM
The selection of the winning logo was just a shameless attempt by MR's
founders to prove their theory that value is truly subjective.
All kidding aside, congratulations to the winner. It's a beauty.
Posted by: Steve at May 12, 2006 11:42:53 AM
I much prefer Ribas' design.
But, then, I'm not an economist... :)
Posted by: Continental Drift at May 12, 2006 12:43:58 PM
I like the logo. Very modern, very chic, nice color combination.
Posted by: Chairman Mao at May 12, 2006 12:47:59 PM
I like the one that was chosen the best. Handsome and clean.
- Josh
Posted by: Wild Pegasus at May 12, 2006 1:30:02 PM
I like the logo that you settled on very much. I reminds me of isoquants, isocosts, demand curves etc., but it also calls to mind Edgeworth boxes (interesting contract curve, though). Very nice.
Posted by: Alex at May 12, 2006 1:39:50 PM
Kudos on the new logo! I think MR make a great choice.
My only critique is on the gradients in the illustration. Gradients look nice on the web but degrade horribly in print and in smaller sizes like favicons. Less capable printers usually botch the smooth, even gradient you see on screen. If at some point, it makes it to commercial printing, you're looking at a huge overhead to accomodate the hundreds of shades of blue and green needed to generate a gradient. And as I said before, once you start working on the favicon, you'll realize it's impossible to do a gradient with the limited palette and low-res requirement. Volo should have no problems redrawing the curve in solid colors.
Posted by: Patrick at May 12, 2006 3:13:36 PM
I think the chosen logo was by far the best of the options shown here. Of course the gradient can be omitted in smaller sizes or where impractical; it's subliminally attractive in the large size.
Posted by: Jason at May 12, 2006 3:32:55 PM
I would combine the logos by Jacob Morse and Orlando Ribas: Morse's idea and Ribas' colors and font.
Posted by: will at May 12, 2006 3:45:12 PM
Ribas' design seems very remniscent of the 1970's. Was it perhaps inspired by an economics textbook?
Gradient or no, it's hard to beat the elegance of the Morse design.
Good work by all. Congratulations.
Posted by: eddie at May 12, 2006 4:33:24 PM
Regarding the new logo, I'm indifferent
Posted by: Bill at May 12, 2006 5:05:54 PM
The Volo Creative one is just gorgeous. Simple, powerful, clean. Nice job.
Posted by: Mrs. Blessed at May 12, 2006 5:22:59 PM
and the gradients make it web 2.0 certified!
Posted by: aloke at May 12, 2006 10:27:20 PM
Like the new design/colors. A little evocative of DirecTv/Saturn/Juno but not too much.
One thought: the square/tall-rect presentation isn't as generally useful in web presentations (like headers and text columns) as a wide-rect. So perhaps these orientations would be better:
[L] Marginal Revolution
or
[L] Marginal
[L] Revolution
I think I'd also prefer a production possibility frontier -- choices! tradeoffs! bulging! -- to an indifference curve, which looks a little depressing, but it's nice in any case.
Posted by: Gordon Mohr at May 13, 2006 1:30:13 AM
