As my various mails to some web designers does not had any real effect to get a new set of icons for the Next Generation User Interface of my favorite feed reader, I hope I will get more responses and comments by starting a design contest for a new logo of RSS Bandit now. Currently we use this one:
The application icon is just the smiley face simulating the point of the character "i". Some professional users complains about the "unprofessional" look of our logo (they associate a game or an app to play with) while there are also users that really like it.
So I just started with some new that get rid of the smiley face, as you can see some variants here:
Variant 1 |
Variant 2 |
Variant 3 |
 
Variant 1 and 2 Eric (Thanks to Eric Winchester) |
Variant 1a |
Variant 2a |
Variant 3a |
Variant Aaron (thanks to Aaron) |
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Variant 2b |
Smiley Variant 1 (Thanks to Mark Allanson) |
Variant Ash (Thanks to Ash) |
So please vote in comments to this post, what you like or not. Send your own designs to my contact address or that at www.rssbandit.org, please. I will add them here for all to preview and vote.
Use the App Icon png found in post enclosure to create your own with the awsome smiley...
Update: as suggested I added variants; 2a with smiley and made the "RSS" a little bit more different in color than the background.
Update 2: 2b with smiley in foreground and removed "hands", and a new variant 3a for the one who liked that.
Update 3: variant 4 (Eric Winchester by mail) and Smiley variant 1 (Mark Allanson by mail to Dare Obasanjo aaaages ago 
Update 4: more variants (Aaron by comment, Ash by mail)
Update 5: more variants from Eric Winchester with the bandito-mask (by mail). Jake, I got your images but they are not much different than our own or that of Mark Allanson. I only post variants here that are interesting AND different in variations. But go on with other/more samples, please!
Voting results as of Oct 11th, 2005 (53 comments, final result):
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1a |
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2a |
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3 |
3a |
Eric 1 |
Eric 2 |
Aaron |
Ash |
So the team will go with variant Eric 1 and we do really want to say thank you all that helped with pictures and votings!