Mad Art Lab Logo Contest: The Reckoning!

At the start of this month, we announced the creation of Mad Art Lab along with a contest to create the new MAL logo. We weren’t sure what kind of results we’d get, but we thought it would be a great way to interact with our skeptical artist readers.

Well, the results were fantastic! It was a tough decision, but we’ve chosen a winner. Congrats to Julianne Harnish:

Julianne’s work appealed to us for a number of reasons: the simplicity, the ease with which we can play with the colors, the reference to street art, and most of all the opportunity to have an awesome little lab rat mascot who we can name and love and care for.

We liked so many of the other logos, though, that we decided to show them all off here and give a Surlyramics necklace to everyone who entered! Check them out:

From Rich Wallace:

From Julie MacTire:

From Claus Larsen:

From Qayin:

From Nick Cavallaro IV:

From Seth Hanisek (commenter w_nightshade):

From Kristi Beisecker:

From Alberto Tilrado:

From David Rodrgiuez, Jr:

From Vanessa Sky:

From Lauren Taylor:

From Captain Disillusion:

From Hjalti Hjalmarsson:

From Beth Voigt:

From Michael Geissler:

From Alex Sanchez:

From Elyse Gebes:

From Beccy Speedie:

And finally, this notable effort from Skepchick’s own Elyse Anders:

Thanks to everyone who entered!