First, let me express my
profound gratitude to our logo contest designers for investing time,
energy, thought and love into the design of the new Integral Life logo. The
results exceeded our best expectations, with over 100 people participating from
all over the world, and the logo designs were just exceptional. Some were
simple, some complex; some demonstrated masculine energy, others more femininity
in their design; there was a wide variation of colors, shapes and
inspirations; most were obviously and deeply
integrally-informed.
Many of you thanked us
for giving you the opportunity to express what an integral life means to
you, and the expressions were vibrant and beautiful, full of life, and
heart, grace, and balance, movement and peace. But, it is our privilege to
thank you for the wonderful outpouring of talent you've given us, and this is
just the first of many invitations we'll be extending to the members of Integral
Life, asking you to help us embody what it means to live an integral life.
We're off to a fabulous start.
Let me also say that the
process of judging the logos was very difficult; there were so many good ones
that it is unfortunate that we could only choose 5 winners, as there were many
more that we'd love to have honored. In fact, we intend to do so by
incorporating some of the designs throughout the new portal - even though they
may not be right as our final logo, they would work very well as symbols (for
Integral Life Practice, for example).
You can now see select logo submissions posted at www.integrallife.com. We'd love to hear community feedback on their favorites!
For our actual final
corporate logo, we are now taking some of the major thematic elements of many of
the logos you have given us and begun to incorporate them in a "best of" version
that will serve as our long-term identity piece. One of our talented in-house
designers is doing this now, using, for instance, some of the inspiration you've
given us with prominent use of the nautilus and
quadrants.
Robb