A new iPod Nano to the Best Logo Idea

Published on November 3, 2007 by David Llorens.
Categories: Solar Competitions.

Winner of the Logo Competition has been Selected!

New iPod Nano 8Gig Black

Ain’t the new iPod Nano the cutest damn thing you ever did see?! I just want to eat it.

Solar Power Rocks needs a logo!

We’re giving away this new 8-gig iPod Nano to the person who comes up with the best logo idea, plain and simple. Here’s how the competition works:

It starts today. Start submitting ideas now and we’ll pick a winner at noon on Nov 15th.

You can submit either a written idea for a logo, or an image of that idea. Post the idea or the picture in the comments. You also may email them to us (dave AT solarpowerrocks.com) and we’ll append this blog post.

Some important details:

  1. If someone submits a duplicate idea, we’ll go with the first one submitted.
  2. If someone submits a written idea and someone else posts an image of that idea that we decide to go with, we’ll pick the image for the win.
  3. Here’s the messy one, ready?: Say someone posts a written idea and someone else later posts an image of that idea. However, if we decide we like the written concept and make our own image reflecting it, we will pick the original written idea for the win.
  4. You don’t have to post your idea to win… If you don’t want the world to see it, just me, let me know when you submit it and I will not post to the thread. you still can win, and your time of submission still counts. However, if it’s good enough to win I can’t imagine not wanting to post it.

Confused yet? Hopefully that’s pretty clear.

Things to think about… Our mission: to prove that solar power in many states is a smart money move… Why does solar power rock? What would make you laugh or smile if you saw it on a T-shirt?

Good luck!

• Time of submission takes priority. What this means is that if you submit an idea now, and someone submits the same idea later, your idea, if chosen, would win.

First Email Idea is in (10/31/07 11:46 AM) from S.E. :

Idea1:You could try a rock-like sun flexing its rock-like muscles, the sun would look kinda like The Thing from the Fantastic 4 comics.

Idea2:Or just one a big rock, that glows with light and “Solar Power” is written on it.

I’m sure some more will come to me, if you want I could sketch them a bit, I am somewhat of a beginning illustrator and I say beginning because i mostly suck at it but I really enjoy drawing.

Second Email Idea is in (11/3/07 11:46 AM) from C T :

Sun SOcket

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Third Email Idea is in (11/3/07 11:46 AM) from Amy:

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Fourth Email Idea is in (11/4/07 ) from R B:

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Fifth Email Idea is in (11/4/07 ) from MY MOM (thanks, mom) (no, she will not be getting preferential treatment):

MOM LOGO

Sixth Email Idea is in (11/4/07 ) from J B:

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Seventh Email Idea is in (11/4/07 ) from D P:

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Read the 46 brilliant comments below or add yours!

ChrisSF Identicon Icon ChrisSF
Comment on October 30th, 2007.

I think it should be 2 rocks with solar panels attached to them. Not sure how that’ll shrink down and look on a shirt. Maybe put one of those recycling arrows around it.

Ken Koers Identicon Icon Ken Koers
Comment on October 31st, 2007.

A picture of a sun with shades on and a huge-ass grin, with the sun talking on a cell phone and/or listening to an Ipod

Comment on October 31st, 2007.

I’m gonna throw up the only two ideas, as lame as they are, here to get things going. 1. A rock with shades, and 2. A spherical happy sun face guy, like one of those new smileys, with a thumbsup.

Comment on October 31st, 2007.

I just had a new idea. Two Rocks… one with the word ‘Solar’ on it and the other with the word ‘Power’

Cam T Identicon Icon Cam T
Comment on October 31st, 2007.

If you want to make it a pun on the name, you could go with a solar powered guitar

I think the best logo, though, is simple — no images like guitars / rocks, at most a solar panel or two. “SPR” cascaded, perhaps (each letter, in 100% opacity, followed by the rest of the word in a rather translucent shade, is slightly lower than the previous one and a fair amount to the right), with a big solar panel or something next to / under it?

Cam T Identicon Icon Cam T
Comment on October 31st, 2007.

You could also just have something like a rock plugged into the sun with Solar Power Rocks above it.

Amy Identicon Icon Amy
Comment on November 1st, 2007.

sun with a socket for a face

Amy Identicon Icon Amy
Comment on November 1st, 2007.

or one of those stupid b&w letter-only logos. you know what i mean, those white ovals with a black border and then obscure letters in the middle that everyone who is “in” is supposed to know what they stand for, a la BRC.

ChrisSF Identicon Icon ChrisSF
Comment on November 2nd, 2007.

I said it should be a pair of rocks with solar panels attached, dick. Also it should have a green arrow circling it.

Tom Furnival Identicon Icon Tom Furnival
Comment on November 3rd, 2007.

Planet earth, cartooney, glowing slightly, with the words Solar Power along the top on a curve, and Rocks underneath with a bolt of lightening through the O? I’ll be-a posting a picture when i get round to making it, (I’m at work at the moment, designing an advert as it happens :P )

Comment on November 3rd, 2007.

I like solar power and ipods so figured I’d throw my hat in the ring. :) Here’s an image I came up with for your logo.

Hope you like. I also came up with a slogan I thought was kinda catchy, sunplug your life. use solar power (sunplug in) and unplug your life from other sources.

Cam T Identicon Icon Cam T
Comment on November 3rd, 2007.

ChrisSF, I don’t think they want a dick in their logo.

Comment on November 3rd, 2007.

the link is http://www.amycullen.net/images/solarpowerrockslogo.gif
guess I can’t display images in comments.

Licia H Identicon Icon Licia H
Comment on November 3rd, 2007.

How about a rock star sun dude? A la 80’s hair band, of course. This’d be fun for a t-shirt.

Cam T Identicon Icon Cam T
Comment on November 3rd, 2007.

I’ve done some basic work on a sun-socket to illustrate what it could look like, but I’m no good with GFX. Here it is, though.
Sun Socket Sketch

Cam T Identicon Icon Cam T
Comment on November 3rd, 2007.

I’m having a bit much trouble drawing a guitar, though, but you get the idea — guitar amp into sun, guitar rocking out on the other side of the logo. Text in the middle.

Cam T Identicon Icon Cam T
Comment on November 3rd, 2007.

All right, I combined my ideas.

It’s a solar powered guitar plugged into the sun, with a somewhat-cascaded “Solar Power Rocks”
Image:
http://web.mit.edu/cjtenny/www/sprsample.jpg

As you can tell, I’m not a professional graphic designer.

Comment on November 3rd, 2007.

the sun playing a guitar with the words ” solar power rocks” in musical notations coming from it’s mouth.

DavidM Identicon Icon DavidM
Comment on November 3rd, 2007.

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/2615/solarpowerdw5.png

Joshi Identicon Icon Joshi
Comment on November 3rd, 2007.

Ok, here’s my idea: a funky sun, who’s rocking hand doubles up as an electrical plug!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2049/1850132622_b0b39ec3ae_o.jpg

Comment on November 4th, 2007.

This is a sun inside a sunflower replacing the ‘O’ in ‘Solar.’ I hope you like it!
http://lxe.homelinux.com/sprocks.jpg

HeadBlaze Identicon Icon HeadBlaze
Comment on November 4th, 2007.

Let me know if this is the direction you want to go with and I can refine the image. The guitar could be another image or perhaps the caps SPR.
http://www.headblaze.com/SPRocks-1.jpg

HeadBlaze Identicon Icon HeadBlaze
Comment on November 4th, 2007.

Another iteration… http://www.headblaze.com/SPRocks-F2C.jpg

Pingback on November 4th, 2007.

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Comment on November 4th, 2007.

http://www.imjustducky.com/images/logoentry.gif

Comment on November 4th, 2007.

Eh, thought I’d submit a quick sketch. It definitely could (and should!) be improved, but it just shows the general idea.

http://kulleen.org/~trinity/solarpowerrocks-logo.png

is the rough sketch.

Pingback on November 4th, 2007.

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Stevenski Identicon Icon Stevenski
Comment on November 5th, 2007.

sølarpøwerrøcks

Comment on November 5th, 2007.

I was thinking today about a sun with big muscles and a gold chain….

Karpe Identicon Icon Karpe
Comment on November 5th, 2007.

basically, using standard square solar panels, spell out solar power rocks in shaded panels, pixel style.

The letters themselves are in beghilos: upside down calculator spelling. You will have to improvise for a couple letters. Caps can be spelled like that:
SOLar pOwEr rOckS

it’ll look nice, which is what you want.

Comment on November 6th, 2007.

the only one that’ll look good on a t-shirt is the one with the devil hand rising in the center of the 4 point sun… it rocks,!!!!!

katie v Identicon Icon katie v
Comment on November 7th, 2007.

here are about 10 different ideas….

Comment on November 9th, 2007.

Hi, here’s my entry idea.
http://www.jonesthegraphics.co.uk/spr/sprlogojtg1.jpg
thanks

jtg

Comment on November 11th, 2007.

Here’s an idea…
<a href= Solar Power Rocks logos
<a href= Header Example

Griffin S. Identicon Icon Griffin S.
Comment on November 12th, 2007.

Here’s the link to a quick initial thought.

http://www.auburn.edu/~shrevgh/spr.html

DavidM Identicon Icon DavidM
Comment on November 12th, 2007.

Another entry. This can be cleaned up a lot.

http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/3103/solarpowercopyus0.png

DavidM Identicon Icon DavidM
Comment on November 12th, 2007.

Another entry. This one can be cleaned up a lot.
http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/3103/solarpowercopyus0.png

Comment on November 12th, 2007.

Oooh iPod Nano . . . ;) Awesome!

Just in case the embedded doesn’t work:
http://www.bswandesign.com/Solar/CompOne.jpg
http://www.bswandesign.com/Solar/CompTwo.jpg
I could give you a high res Illustrator file if picked which would be scalable for all purposes. Wish me luck!
*smiles*
Beth

Bill Longworth Identicon Icon Bill Longworth
Comment on November 14th, 2007.

Definitely some good concepts here…
[IMG]http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r207/balongworth/sprset1.jpg[/IMG]
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r207/balongworth/sprset1.jpg

dambs Identicon Icon dambs
Comment on November 14th, 2007.

My proposition is here..

Bye all

Bill Longworth Identicon Icon Bill Longworth
Comment on November 14th, 2007.

Another take. Contests like this are always interesting for me since I always find I like a blend of different logos more than any single one. It’s also interesting to note that any logo can be tweaked any of a million ways, making it hard to know if you’ve covered your bases. Still, it is great practice.

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r207/balongworth/sprset2.jpg

Bill Longworth Identicon Icon Bill Longworth
Comment on November 15th, 2007.

Small tweaks to the previous set. I put the variations together vertically rather than horizontally to take up less page space and added a bit more color.

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r207/balongworth/sprset2.jpg
[IMG]http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r207/balongworth/sprset2.jpg[/IMG]

Bill Longworth Identicon Icon Bill Longworth
Comment on November 15th, 2007.

I should also add that my designs are free to use, regardless of how the contest turns out. This blog is working toward something worthwhile, and that deserves support, even in the form of some simple doodles.

Bill Longworth Identicon Icon Bill Longworth
Comment on November 15th, 2007.

What, no Sun-as-Elvis attempts? I would have thought that idea would have been a lock.

djh Identicon Icon djh
Comment on November 15th, 2007.

and the winner is?

Comment on November 24th, 2007.

Thanks, Bill!

Comment on December 17th, 2009.

the one that said solar power rock and the other reson why i enter i because i want to make my brothers ,sisters ,mom and dad jeloues

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