Great choices and great payouts. Congrats to the three winners. I think the top logo is great, simple and gets the point across with the upvote. Also easy to change should the Steemit upvote arrow ever change.
I thought the whale-tail graphic from @sharker was very nice as well.
We were actually thinking of dropping the "project" word over time to make it simpler :) . Yes indeed, I was expecting other designs to win, but in the end.. the winning designs are awesome!