Give me your opinions on HackableCity Logo

[Allan T.]

I'm running a design competition on Crowdspring for a new logo for
HackableCity.com, which is open to public comment. Would love to get
your thoughts on the proposed designs, it is open for public comment
and voting.

http://www.crowdspring.com/project/2282168_logo-design-for-hackablecity/

If you are interested, here is the design brief we gave the
CrowdSPRING community:

HackableCity is a blog that examines the application of hackability
and open source ideas to co-creating our urban society. Our focus is
on the U.S., though we take examples from global cities. What is
Hackability? "Allowing and encouraging people to make an environment
be what they want it to be. Reciprocity between users and designers.
Transparency and graceful responses to unanticipated uses."

The idea of Hackable Cities has really taken off with the advent of
the Government 2.0 movement, which leverages open data and new
participatory web platforms to engage citizens with their cities in
new ways.

Currently this is about transparent government and being able to
access city services and data using technology, but it is evolving to
cities providing technology-based platforms on which citizens create
things they want and need - neighborhood portals, economic trade rings
for artists or freelancers, interest groups providing input into urban
planning, and so on. 

You can see examples of some of our writing at
http://hackablecity.com, but 2010 will see this blog really take off
in the City 2.0 space.

HERE IS WHAT WE NEED: 

A logo that represents the ideas that underly
HackableCity: 

- a strong focus on cities and the urban environment
- citizens making the city into what they need 
- leveraging
technology, and the intersection between place and the digital data
about the place

[Matt Gillooly]

I like a lot about the submission by the user "saturday".  It's my favorite so far, but here are a couple critiques:

- The skyline section is a little noisy, but I think that could be fixed by making the graphic a bit taller and devoting the new vertical space to a crisper skyline.

- I'm also tired of the anti-pattern they used for the typesetting: 2 words smooshed together, with one in bold/color for no apparent reason.  It implies some kind of an emphasis that isn't really there (Hackable *CITY* ???).  I think it would be better with a single font style and a space between the words.

Just my two cents.  Looking forward to seeing what you go with.

cheers,
Matt

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[Peter Landry]

I agree with Matt's critiques, but we might get a lot of smooshed-word entries, since the block is described as "HackableCity".

I like Morabira's entries (probably because of the legos). I think the "skyline" could use some tweaking, but the concept and font selection are good.

Peter

[Allan T.]

Thanks for your feedback. I've collected some inputs for on a reduced
set of options for the Hackable City logo, linked below. If you'd like
to weigh in again and tell me your fav/top 3, please do! I'll be
choosing by SAT.

http://www.crowdspring.com/project/2282168_logo-design-for-hackablecity/?filter=4&sort=creative__username