This is the transcript of the video, complete with the names of each of the designers ABOVE the text of the slides on which their work appears. I did this so you might be able track them down at 99 Designs and commission your own logo through their One-to-One program.
Music: Can We Stay (by The Woodlands)
MadMaxx
Draw a logo for Wizard of Ads
rocketRudolp
That was the name of my contest on 99 Designs.
Tiberiu22
I offered $2000 to the winner.
pmo
That kind of cash brings out the big hitters.
dalton HD
These were my instructions:
tracylove
A boy is holding a sword.
Dragonight83
There is a star above him.
TitoPiccolo
Those are your elements: A boy, a sword, a star.
bRsjock
Are you up for it?
pmo
Yes?
LadyB
Wonderful!
Solid Idea (was not the designer in the UK)
A designer in the U.K read that brief
petir jingga
and sent the following email:
Adessa
“How does a boy, a sword and a star
Kak_Jay™
relate to wizard of ads?
Arevalor
It’s an awful idea.
sahana mita
Good luck with it.”
TheWhiteSword
So I sent him the following answer:
bos wandi
Wizard was originally “wise-ard” or “wise man”.
dalajlampa
You’re familiar with the wise men
Cloud Dancing
who followed a star to Bethlehem?
★ ADAHY ★
That star speaks of following a goal.
FelixSiringoringo
Do you remember The Impossible Dream
FelixSiringoringo
from Man of La Mancha?
joe95
“This is my quest, to follow that star,
DesignerDar
no matter how hopeless, no matter how far…”
photo by Gene Naftulyev
This is the tower on our 32-acre campus.
photo by Gene Naftulyev
That sword in the top of the tower wall
horror factory
is seen by 100,000 visitors each year.
photo by Gene Naftulyev
The approach to the tower is cut 14 feet deep
pmo
in solid limestone,
★ ADAHY ★
perfectly north to the North Star.
jasmina.1.design
That star remains forever above the sword,
★ ADAHY ★
like a true and honest goal,
RamDe
never moving.
Brandstar™
Every other star moves through the night
khe-veronika
But the North Star stands above the earth’s axis
waldypot
a remarkable point of light around which
Indiana Beagle w/logo of Wizard Academy
the whole world seems to revolve.
Photo by Gene Naftulyev
Millions of dollars,
Wizard Academy Class photo by Daniel Whittington
millions of visitors over the past 15 years
Photo of Wizard of Ads trilogy by Bard Press
and 3 bestselling books tell the story
Campus Map
of Wizard Academy
Photo of Choria with FOLLOW THE STAR wine and wine glass
and the star and the sword
tower photo by Roy H. Williams
and goal-setting and adventure.
photo of Chapel Dulcinea
But you’re right.
Indiana Beagle with wine glass
It’s probably a horrible idea.
steampunk hat and wine glass
– Indiana Beagle