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Cheshire West and Chester Council reveals the frontrunners in its big £500 brand search | Print |  Email to a friend
Thursday, 04 September 2008

Our thanks go to an eagle-eyed How-Do reader who spotted that Cheshire West and Chester Council has posted the four corporate ID’s that are battling out to be the local authority’s new brand… and take home a payment of some £500.
Our thanks go to an eagle-eyed How-Do reader who spotted that Cheshire West and Chester Council has posted the four corporate ID’s that are battling out to be the local authority’s new brand… and take home a payment of some £500.

And we have to say; they’re really not all that bad.

It’s been three weeks now since How-Do broke (sensationally, we’d suggest) the story of the soon-to-form council’s revolutionary plans to acquire a “dynamic, forward thinking, inspiring, professional, fresh and innovative” brand.

To cut an old story to the quick, bosses basically launched a competition inviting talented Cheshire-ites to design the brand themselves, thus sidestepping the bothersome design agency route.

In return they’d receive a prize of 500 Sterling pounds.

The shortlist of competing IDs has now been posted on the Shadow Council’s website, with visitors encouraged to vote for their favourite prior to the end of the competition next Monday (8 September).

You can find all the explanations/creative strategies for the individual designs on the site itself (don’t forget to vote!), but we thought we’d showcase the four here to give kudos to all where it’s due.

We think you’ll agree that that’s a lot of creative thought for not a lot of money. Well done to all concerned on getting this far!



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 1 By Matt, on 05-09-2008 12:28
1,2 & 4 could have the copy replaced with any other district, water company, grain producer, telecommunications company. I presume 3 has relevance in terms of heraldry, etc but imho ALL 3 are distinctly average and the sign of a poor brief driving unremarkable creative.
 2 By Casio, on 05-09-2008 13:03
I'm glad taxpayer's money isn't being paid to some bogus agency for this. However, they should try and move away from the financial, 'building society' feel of the first 3 above. Perhaps, it's just the name that's making me think that. I don't think the designs are any more 'average' than that copied Oldham logo!
 3 By S. Thurow, on 05-09-2008 13:42
Design 2 is great. It shows the freshness of the county, it's adaptable, it's modern but not trendy, and most importantly won't date. I hope these designs show what a con trick those agencies have been pulling for years
 4 By ab, on 05-09-2008 16:06
"...freshness of the county..." 
 
eh????? 
 
"...won't date...." 
 
have you been reading a 1998 design brief? 
 
why not say it is innovative and clean too?
 5 By Danbolt, on 06-09-2008 07:13
Ab, I'm a member of the public from the catchment area, so I'm the target market and not someone from an agency background. 
Design 2 is great and I'd be proud to have that representing my county. 
This is the real world and that's a real logo that people will relate to and understand. 
The market isn't agencies - its people!
 6 By Cynic, on 07-09-2008 07:42
What type of cretin can become potentially 'proud' of a local waterboard's logo in his 'real' world and actually have time to 'relate' to it. Only the same type of impressionable eejit who is a 'people person' or works in a 'customer focussed' environment'. He will surely understand the clenched fist waved up and down in a vertical manner gesticulation appropriate to him then?
 7 By Nowhere like Chester, on 07-09-2008 14:58
Cynic, you point is confused and, well, pointless. This is not a corporate logo. No-one is 'proud' of the Golden Arches or the Apple logo.  
 
When seeing the council logo, people will make a mental connection to their homes and roots in the county (which they are usually proud of). That's why design 2 works.
 8 By Poison Ivy, on 08-09-2008 19:55
These designs are loads better than recent area rebrands (like that Oldham polo mint etc). I agree about the second design. It's lovely. It also doesn't need explaining like, that Oldham logo, you can just see what it's about.

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