Devir Kahan

My New Logo: The End Of The Contest

// December 20th, 2009 // Blog, Community, Contest, Internet, Life, Photos, Tech

The contest for my new logo is now over. While there can only be one winner, I would like to take the time to thank everyone who submitted a design. It really was incredible for me to see everyone taking part in this contest. It really meant a lot, and I truly appreciate it.

I had dozens of submissions, and I filed them all into a folder which, as time went by, I slowly started sifting through until I narrowed the logos down to a few finalists. It was clear that some submissions were done by professional graphic artists, and some were not. All of them were pretty good, but amateur logos just can’t really compete with those created by professionals. There were a number of really great submissions that I really strongly considered for a while. However, after it was all over, Peter Zujko stood out to me as being the one I wanted as my logo. It is an incredible graphical sketch of my face, and it looks just absolutely awesome. I would highly recommend that you check Peter out over http://youtube.com/766films. He has some really awesome content there, and I’m sure you guys will enjoy it. The problem, was that then Peter dissapeared before the logo was finished. I still needed him to make a number of changes, but a few days went by, the deadline came and went, and no response! That is when I turned to Seva Dorn. He created another really awesome logo for me that you will soon see me using somewhere. Seva is currently an Israeli soldier deployed in Iran. He took his free time to make me a logo, and to know that someone like Seva is out there, saying how he likes watching my videos to relax, is incredibly moving. This means a tremendous amount to me. He was going to be my next choice, had Peter not submitted anything, but even if he had totally lost the contest, I think by submitting his logo for me, and saying what he said, he has done much more. I asked Seva to make the final changes to the logo and he did it no problem. he also altered the entire face to make it look better and more how I wanted it.

This whole thing was crazy, and in the end Peter did reply quickly explaining how he had become too busy to finish it. He was totally cool with the fact that Seva finished up the logo for him. I guess it is Peter and Seva who won? Seva only wanted a shoutout to all those fighting in Iran, and I think he got that. He will also be the one entered in to my TuneUp 2010 contest twice. Peter’s link to his great YouTube channel are above. As to the ThinkGeek codes? Read on!

There were a number of other honorable mentions like, iJ0nathan, who created a really nice logo with my face in it, but was not exactly what I was looking for. Jason Murack created a really nice logo with my initials that I actually am currently using as my iPod wallpaper because I think it goes nicely like that. Jorgen Bendiksen also created a really nice text banner which I look forward to one day using as a banner somewhere on my YouTube channel (if and when I one day became a partner). I can’t mention everyone who submitted, and I think I may have mentioned to many already, but the people who submitted above really worked very hard. They collaborated with me through email. They submitted a few revisions, and I feel that they deserve to be mentioned. Again, though, I would still like to thank everyone for submitting their logos – that in itself means a lot to me.

As Lammar Wilson from http://youtube.com/wilsontech1 said, whenever you have a giveaway or a contest, you piss everyone off except for the winner. I really don’t want that to be the case because so many of you submitted some really nice designs. So, for just this once, everyone will be getting the ThinkGeek code. the code is ‘google’ (without the quotes) and it will take $10 off of a $30 or more order. Sounds like a good deal to me, no? So head on over to http://thinkgeek.com and use it!

Again, a big thank you to everyone that submitted. My inbox at mail@devirkahan.com is always open, and even if you didn’t get a chance to submit into the contest, I would love to take a look at any cool design you make of me. Who know? Maybe I’ll even use it! I look forward to more giveaways and contests in the not-so-distant future. I have some great content and announcements coming in the next few weeks so stay tuned! You think this post was long enough?