Research Projects
Lviv - Vienna Logo Design Competition, 2015
The Academic Cooperation between L‘vivska Polytechnic, institute of architecture and Vienna University of Technology, Faculty for Architecture and Planning has been going on for 20 years. In July 2015 a design competition was launched to create a logo for this cooperation.
The following criteria were essential to the logo-development:
The primary use of the logo will be it’s featuring on:this cooperation website, A4 letter paper, urbanistic project plans (A3 to A0). If the logo contains color information, it should also work as grayscale.
The first submission deadline of 31st of August 2015 was prolonged until September 14th 2015. In total 53 submissions were handed in, 32 of these from Lviv, 21 from Vienna.
The jury consisted of consulting and of voting members. The members entitled to vote were three faculty members and one student from each university: Vienna University of Technology: Klaus Semsroth, Elisabeth Leitner, Andreas Hofer and Verena Wohlmacher; and L‘vivska Polytechnic: Bohdan Cherkes, Halyna Petryschyn, Anton Kolomyeytsev and Ivan Lipchey. Also one representative of the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (bmwfw) of Austria, Felix Wilcek, was entitled to vote. The external consultant (graphic & design), Inge Manka and moderator, Barbara Maschat had no voting right.
The jury met in Vienna the 21st of September 2015 to discuss the submissions in four rounds. Prof. Klaus Semsroth was elected head of the jury; research assistant Barbara Maschat prepared and moderated the meeting and handled the post-processing.
All works, with special attention given to the winning submissions, were presented at the 20-year celebrations November 19th, 2015 in Lviv and December 4th, 2015 in Vienna.
The first prize winner, Solomiya Hanets, PhD student and research assistant, National University L’vivska Polytechnic, received a travel voucher to the 20-year celebration in Vienna (worth 300€). Viktor Shtets, senior lecturer, National University L’vivska Polytechnic (2nd place) and Bernhard Mayer, master student and teaching assistant, Vienna University of Technology (3rd place), each received a recognition award in form of a 100€ book-voucher.
Below you will find the 10 best logos, each with the creators names and details, as well as a short description of their design.
Author:
Barbara Maschat
Jury:
Andreas Hofer
Anton Kolomeytsev
Elisabeth Leitner
Halyna Petryshyn
Christoph Ramoser
Klaus Semsroth
Bohdan Tscherkes