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Help BP redesign their logo

Interesting online crowd sourcing competition running at the moment over at logomyway.com. For those of you who haven’t heard of it before, it’s a design crowd sourcing (freelancer) site similar to 99designs.com.

Anyway, back to the competition at hand. The folks at logomyway.com have posted a job to redesign the BP (Beyond Petroleum) logo, in light of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The key concepts the logo should communicate are given as:

#1 Oil spill disaster – Toxic
#2 Death of wildlife
#3 Incompetence

The prize awarded to the winner will be $200 and so far 163 designs have been submitted. The contest will be open for another 8 days and some of my favourites so far are:

Simply change to the existing logo, but sums it up nicely.

This one is a great adaptation of the existing logo. And nicely visualises how the ocean will need to have the oil 'wrung' out of it.

This logo is fitting given the 13% collapse in the market capitalisation of BP. Will the company crumble as a result of this?

I don't think BP is evil, but I like this logo .

P.S. For anyone interested, you can view live video feeds of the underwater operations on the BP website.

1 comment 20th June 2010 Tristan

Envious

Whilst on the topic of energy efficiency and all things new and cool – see Auto X Prize – here is a vehicle which is very much worth keeping an eye on, the env bike. The mega-cities of Asia would be much nicer places if they could replace all the noisy polluting bikes here with this baby.

The concept (ie. the core) and design of this bike are fantastic, to me, it represents a turning point in the coming revolution in automotives. Here is another article about it and the company behind it, Intelligent Energy:

http://www.hydrogenforecast.com/ArticleDetails.php?articleID=245

2 comments 8th April 2007 Tristan

Auto X Prize

From the same people that brought you the Space X Prize – won by SpaceShipOne of Scaled Composites, we have The Automotive X Prize. The goal;

“(to) design viable, clean and super-efficient cars that people want to buy”

Should be an interesting one to keep an eye on, if the quality is anything like that of SpaceShipOne, it should result in a fantastic vehicle.

1 comment 7th April 2007 Tristan