Perhaps it is impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretent to be. - Orson Scott Card
We are our identity, Orson. Nobody can teach me who I am.
When it comes to brand awareness there are few things that are most important than identity.
If you want people to remember what you do, then you need to create recognition value.
That's why I decided on running a logo contest and asked Steemit's Graphic Designers to create a new identity for my blog.
I'm stoked to present my new surf brand today!!!🌊🌊🌊
@surfermarly sharing a wave with her new logo today's afternoon
Be yourself - everybody else is already taken!
Dr. Seuss said once
There is no one alive who is youer than you.
Nicely said.
When I called for Graphic Designers on Steemit in order to find the "perfect match", I was looking for a design that was 100% me.
I wanted to create a brand identity which was strong enough to become the icon of my blog, a badge that represented the brand and the relationship between author and audience.
Branding is about making an emotional connection.
That's what happened to me when I looked at one of the submissions.
I talked to my friends and family, showed them the wonderful creations that were submitted last week and asked them for their opinions.
They all pointed on the same logo saying "that's you". They were right.
So I finally found my brand identity which will represent all my doings in the social media world from now on.
I have a lot of plans for the future, and it's good to know that - having this logo now - I already possess one of the most important key pieces for that journey.
There were many amazing entries, and it was really hard to decide. But there was one submission that really got me! Congratulations @sjennon, and thank you for your outstanding contribution! I love my new logo.
The winning logo! Thank you @sjennon
As promised the winning logo receives 200 SBD which have been transferred to @sjennon's account a couple of minutes ago.
Furthermore, the submission from @enazwahsdarb was the one that received the highest number of upvotes in the announcement post, so he's the lucky winner of 50 SBD which has been sent to his account, too.
The community winner! Thank you @enazwahsdarb
Enjoy spending all that money, hehe 💰💰💰
A big THANK YOU to all the other participants that have spent their valuable time on creating amazing stuff. It was really hard to decide and I appreciate all your great efforts!!!
The whole contest generated a lot of value within Steemit's network. Many people were given high upvotes on their submissions and nice rewards for their own posts related with the competition.
I think these kind of contests should take place much more often on Steemit.
Under the powerful umbrella of @steemgigs we're able to create a completely new service providing platform with unlimited fields of activity.
I'm really looking forward to it!
Have a great Monday, steemians! Just in case you're not having a nice day, remember the following:
The sun is gonna rise again.
Promised!
Marly -
PS: By the way there is a funny anecdote to tell regarding the trophy money.
On Thursday the tickets for Steemfest started to be on sale. So I wanted to be one of the first ones in having one, and without thinking I got to my Steemit wallet, transferred the money to the Steemfest account and was the happiest girl alive. 5 minutes later I cursed! Oh nooooo, I had spent all my liquid cash for the ticket and there wasn't any money left for the winners... Damn it! OK, so I needed to power up though. I luckily found a national trading partner on localbitcoins.com who was willing to sell me some BTC for EUR. But then my online banking failed! Murphey's Law!!! I needed to drive to my bank's branch office in order to excecute the transfer there. I had 20 minutes until the trade was cancelled on the platform. I made it!!! I was sweating like hell but happy to have the money for the winning steemians though 😃😃😃So it's all good now...
Original content. Quote found on pinterest.com.
Well done Shannon, aka @sjennon! Well deserved my friend :)
And @surfermarly, thank you for being such an epic contest hostess! Seriously, your spirit is what brought this whole thing together with such awesome vibes! I am so grateful to be able to interact with such incredible people.
Thank you so much for awarding me with the prize for being the most popular! Really was quite an exciting experience to log into Steemit and find an extra 50 SBD in my wallet! Too awesome.
I'm excited for that next announcement too ;) Talk soon my friend!
Thank you so much for your kind words! The pleasure is mine.
Team work makes the dream work.
The second announcement is published 😉
Have a great day!!!
It feels truly amazing to win this contest - and it feels even better to have created something that you're so happy with and which suits you perfectly.
Let me know what you need when it comes to the logo - you know where to reach me :)
I would like to thank you for the opportunity and ofcourse the reward! Much love from Berlin!
Dude, that's really cool design. We have really talented people over here, I'm happy to see everyone working together!
Thank you so much!
Thank YOU for your creativity!!!
And YES, I'm very happy with it 😃
I will get back to you soon, a high res version would be nice. I need to print the logo on the t-shirts I will wear at Steemfest 😉
Enjoy your day!!!
Much love from Canary Islands ☀️
I can't stop smiling :D
That's a really good thing 😄✌️
Well desserved. Good choice!
Congratulations!
Thank you so much!
Congratss !!! @sjennon ^ ^
Thank you!
Nice
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You chose well
YES!!! It's 100% surfermarly style 😃😃😃
Am even thinking about a tattoo!!!
you always remind me of this movie with Keanu Reeves as Surfer-Cop :-)
upvoted!
Haha Point Break!!! That's of course one of my fav movies! Nice anchor 😉
I could watch that one tonight. I haven't seen it for a while... Great idea!!!
Thanks for your support!
Your welcome, I love this one too - Will you be back in Austria? From where exactley are you? @surfermarly
Back? Why should I've ever been living in Austria? Haha!
@hastla: des is woi mia imma so redn :-D
I'm German... But not that complicated like normal German people, LOL 😆
Haha really omg sorry, I thought I read you are from Austria. Wow ok now that I know that you are from Germany...... Unfollowed. Just kidding :-D
Hahaha, unfollowed too! I wärd narrisch!
:-D
Have fun and enjoy your rides!
Congrats to the winner! It was a great contest between very good artist of steemit, and i am so happy for the opportunity to be a participiants of this! I think the choosen logo is what excaclty you are as the character on surf looks like you and she is surfing on steem waves!
Great move, @veibone! Thanks for stopping by and congratulating :-)
It was a pleasure having you!!
That is such an amazing photo. You take it with a GoPro?
Yep, I do all my shootings with a GoPro Hero 5. Thank you!! 😊
I love it. Please keep posting those kind of pictures :)
Sure! :-)
You may like this one, too. It's also from today's session:
Great one @sjennon ! Congratulations!!
Aah, thank you so much!
She's just the best - and now it's proven on the blockchain 😃
And you just host an awesome fun contest! Thanks!
Thank YOU for being part of it and stopping by again.
Gran gesto de felicitar a la ganadora... Eso no lo harán todos :-)
Nos vemos por ahí!!!
Si claro, see you around! Y cuando tengas hambre pasa a visitarnos, nuestro blog es sobre comida.
Jaja excelente! Pero igual mejor pasar cuando NO tenga hambre... Si no lo pasaría mal 😉
Well the logo looks amazing!
YES! It does 😉
@surfermarly I like this pose a lot and want you to teach me
glad to see your post
that a nice logo truly represent you.
good pick, those two were the ones i was like stoked about, you could use them both in different situations -- i understand about wanting to be on brand but you could maybe use them on the graphics etc, or as a footer signoff and have the swirl one as the main one. either way. fire logo! congrats! :)
Yeah, theoretically that would have solved the "problem" of needing to choose one :-)
But I definitely want to work with just one logo in order to strengthen the recognition value.
I loved all of them. But Shannon's was outstanding.
that's nice and right choose
congrat to @sjennon and @enazwahsdarb
Thanks :D
Great move, @sogata! Yours was excellent, too.
It was a quite hard decision for me...
Have a wonderful day and keep being awesome :-)
have a great day too. i hope you always happy with your new logo. that's great
Congratulations @sjennon!
Well deserved win, your logo was definitely my personal favourite
So many great entries and I wish they all could've won @surfermarly haha
Thank you :> It warms my heart!
Like the logo
The best hits. And very good design. presentation @surfermarly
Yeah, these were my two favourites, too. Thank you!
Impressive logo.. Thanks for sharing.
great pic bro @surfermarly
Bro? Haha
Totally knew that one was the winner as soon as I saw it.
I had a similar feeling.... 😉😉😉
Upvoted and also resteemed :)
Taylor Swift is here?!?! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for your support 😉
Ooh awesome, I really liked that one! Glad you picked it to be the winner and your new logo :-)
:D
Awsome!
Excellent as you are always a great
Congrats sjennon! This was fun and the designs were fantastic! Enjoyed.
Yeah, I loved to run this contest, too. Should do that more often!
Congrats @sjennon! You are truly the best designer here, so proud of you! Well i was sure you were going to win it!
Wonderful logo @surfermarly!
Have a lovely day ahead!
Hahah thank you so much @progressivechef! I really do appreciate your support and faith in me!
You are right, she's amazing!
It's not "Murphey's Law", it is "Murphy's Law". @surfermarly.
It's that I'm not so familiar with his Law.........😅😅😅
Thanks for the hint. I think I will leave it like that... imperfections make us more human 😊
You are welcome.
great job!! Love it. I know you are happy.
I think we're both very happy now, hehe 😊
Great! Congrats to the winners!
Thank you alot! So nice! Thank you again! Please look at last post of @surpassinggoogle, to see my own logo. A steemgigger did it. He is the one i had in mind incase you didn't find someone. I hope google don't look for me
aww congrats to the winners! Love it! Thanks for hosting this event, it was so much fun :)
It was a pleasure having you, @karensuestudios! Your entry was excellent, too. And I'm happy you were rewarded with some really powerful upvotes.
awww thank you! :) I dig the new logo you picked! It was very clever and special!
Super nice like the logo's well done
When did you run this contest, I am also a graphic designer and 3D artist. I really regret that I missed this great opportunity. If in future you want something like this, give me some chance to work for you. You can see my work in my posts. I regularly post my artistic work there.
I did a couple of announcements in my blog :-)
The next time you can participate!
Yes I am eagerly waiting for it, how did you like some of the effects I tried on photoshop.
nice job, congrats to the winners :)
Congratulations to the winner, very great contest :)
Congratulation for the winner..great choice for you @surfermarly ..
Very impressive post with a lot of future thinking into the way contests have to be , thank you!
Thanks for stopping by! In the future there will be a lot more design contests, that's at least what I'm planning to do :-)
good choice for all the reasons that you said, and thanks for the fun contest.
learnt a lot from the experience, so always good, and liked several of the entries.
be seeing you.
Great choice and congrats to sjennon. Great design and perfect for surfermarly
the logo is superb, it's really perfect for you , I am happy that you've chosen this one!! kodus to the creator as well:-)))
Wow, new logo is awesome! :-)