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The Autoblog Redesign Our Business Cards Contest: Winners announced!
Autoblog winning design entry by Sean S.
AutoblogGreen winning design entry by Jeremy K.
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We present to you the winners of our Autoblog "Redesign Our Business Cards Contest". Congratulations go out to Sean S. who designed the winning Autoblog entry and Jeremy K, the designer of AutoblogGreen's new business card. Both winning entries manage to combine all the traditional elements of a good business card design, while including some out-of-the-box elements we really liked.
There were so many entries and at least eight or so for each contest that could have easily been chosen as the winner. We've included those very close runner ups after the jump for your review, as well as a nod to those excellent designers who submitted them. This contest was a great success and thanks go out to everyone who entered, as well as Pioneer for putting up the prizes. Both Sean S. and Jeremy K. will have a Pioneer AVIC-D2 satellite navigation system in their hands shortly. We'll be having more big contests like this in the near future, so stay alert.
Autoblog runnerup entries (in no particular order)
Submitted by Matt H.
Submitted by Clayton A.
Submitted by Jonathan A.
Submitted by Matthew V. (Also has a corresponding ABG entry, and though we weren't looking for a set, each entry was received very well on its own)
Submitted by Shawn B.
Submitted by Shawn L.
Submitted by Zach S.
Submitted by Dennis D. (We really liked this series, but aren't in a place where we can change our logo)
AutoblogGreen runnerup entries (in no particular order)
Submitted by Matthew V.
Submitted by mrlee
Submitted by Jeremy K.
Submitted by Jason O.
Submitted by Joel P.
Submitted by Daniel M.
Submitted by Jonathan A.
Submitted by Alex V.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Andrew 11:42AM (10/30/2006)
Lots of great work. Go one, change the logo! Redo the site theme, great material here. Well done.
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Seabass 11:53AM (10/30/2006)
Great designs all around (I'm jealous), but I have to disagree on having the card ripping off "Cars" as the winning submission.
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Ryan 11:56AM (10/30/2006)
I 2nd that Andrew. Sorry Jeff I only sent you simple designs, not enough $$ involved to spend my time with more complex designs, apparently there are a lot of graphic designers without work...nice designs though! :)
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Vinny 11:58AM (10/30/2006)
I agree! Go with the Dennis D. logo design. That really freshens it up and looks cool. Go for it! Maybe you could do it when you guys go for the same layout as Engadget.
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Ryan 11:58AM (10/30/2006)
Yes ripping off Pixar isn't great for your portfolio...
Sean is very smart though, he knew Jeff was Crazy about that movie...
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JS 12:05PM (10/30/2006)
Back looks great although it does show a similarity to "cars" but who cares.
Front seems redundant with the logo on there twice and makes the eye go from bottom left to top right missing the important stuff...like your name and contact info.
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djSyndrome 12:13PM (10/30/2006)
Wow, lots of original submissions, and you choose the one that's most likely to get you sued by His Steveness? Awesome.
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udayan 12:13PM (10/30/2006)
It's not Pixar, i believe it is the 1957 Cadillac Eldorado that is being ripped off, but it sure does look great. Classic Americana and whatnot.
Daniel M's ABG, mrlee's ABG, Zach S's AB & Matt H's AB are my favourites.
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llloyd 12:29PM (10/30/2006)
The url on the front of the winner also stinks of carfax's logo.
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Ryan 12:43PM (10/30/2006)
Oh it's Carfax's logo alright
Jeff, you might want to pass this to your attorneys to give them the okay...
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=t98bqv.1.1&p_search=searchss&p_L=50&BackReference=&p_plural=yes&p_s_PARA1=&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA1%24LD&expr=PARA1+AND+PARA2&p_s_PARA2=car+fax&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA2%24COMB&p_op_ALL=AND&a_default=search&a_search=Submit+Query&a_search=Submit+Query
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vectorbug 1:10PM (10/30/2006)
Very nice. I gave up after my 2nd submission (which sucked anyways). The Cars graphic looks low resolution though, probably because its lifted from Pixar's website. Could look great in vector.
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YouIdiots 1:50PM (10/30/2006)
HAHA, this is perfect... you guys picked some really amateur work. This looks so good on Autoblog, when you run a contest and devalue the design industry and it's professionals as whole you get questionable work as you've shown us here.
The winning choice has horrendous typography, no kerning, no grid structure, fonts are far too large. Well, I guess the plus side is that you didn't have to buy the prizes so you should have some money in your fat AOL pockets to pay a real designer/studio to make some real cards now.
Nothing like some pie in your face John.
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Adam Singer 2:16PM (10/30/2006)
Matt H's Autoblog card card kicks ass. That should have won for normal Autoblog! The one that won for Autoblog green is best though.
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akatsuki 2:32PM (10/30/2006)
What is with the double repetition of the logo? I am underwhelmed to say the least. Shawn B's entry looks much better and far more professional.
The Green entry, on the other hand, is quite nice...
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aaron 3:41PM (10/30/2006)
the autoblog green one works fine, but the winner for autoblog looks aweful. as others have said the double logo thing does not work at all, the back is a total rip off at least of the general "cars" idea and reads poorly overall with bad typeface. i really dont get why you picked that one...
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Jeremy K 3:49PM (10/30/2006)
Well, as the Cars logo is a rip off of a real car, some how I doubt Pixar is going to care. That and it's a simple business card... sheesh. Not like this is the poster for the next Dreamworks film.
I love almost all the designs, though I really have to bow my hat to Shawn B's card. Brilliant design IMHO.
And for all the "designers" out there... get over yourselves. It's a contest. John said he wanted to have fun, and I think he did. If you're so great, then why didn't you enter and win? I plan on using my design as a portfolio piece. And I'm proud that it beat some really great designs, and I didn't just get the job cause somebody picked my name randomly on Google.
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matthew m. barnes 4:08PM (10/30/2006)
quite a few of the "runner ups" were WAY better looking than the winners. if you wanted traditional and boring... you made the right picks. (i started to list the ones that were better, but there were just too many.)
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jpr 5:06PM (10/30/2006)
I don't like these designs-
My choice would be Matt H's (w/ the cool "words per minute")
and Daniel M's. Both very cool and ORIGINAL.
(Not stealing from other sorces)
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Tool 5:53PM (10/30/2006)
Hey autoblog . . . since you got all these wonderful ideas for free, and these folks really put their heart and soul into this, why don't you post the websites or contact information for these talented designers so that we can contact them?
In particular, I would like to know how to contact Dennis D, Matthew V and Jeremy K.
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ezbst 8:06PM (10/30/2006)
I have to agree with the herd, it looks like the winners were picked by a very small group of people. Also, what looks great on a website won't look so appealing in print. Dennis D.'s entry is head and shoulders above anything else submitted here, and the only print-worthy selection. It made the current AutoBlog logo look immediately dated. Go ahead, give the winners their stereos and then contact Dennis and throw some money at him and apologize.
No, I am not a friend of Dennis' :)
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