I like how 5/6 have the words come below the bottom of the barcode… it makes them the focus, which you want, but it needs the ‘dot org’. I’m not sure I like the light fade in the top left… I like some of your suggestions Eli, but I think the fairly rectangular shape of the logo will help with placement in different locations/mediums.

silly suggestion, but what if you had the ‘U’ in bilumi a bit bigger than the other characters… then people might be like, oh, what’s the U part, and wow, that the YOU…

Of the 8 existing designs, I like 5 the best. But you need .org in it, I think. I don’t like the white box around the lettering “bilumi.org” and I don’t like the fonts. They seem to lack flow. I prefer the bottom of the url being flush with the bottom of the barcode.

If you stick with the birds-embedded-in-barcode design, what about instead using a font that looks more bar-codey, or allowing the bar-codes around the URL to align with the tops of the letters, instead of having a horizontal white box (that is, have a white border around the url letters, instead of a rectilinear white-box). The rectilinear white box just disrupts the flow too much. Looks amateurish to me.

What about a design in which the birds hold a barcode in their talons? I know the analogy gets a little muddled here, but it’s still sensible–the birds carry info about products (and barcodes carry info about products).

You could also have the birds sit on top of “bilumi.org” and make the lettering look bar-codey, or make one of the letters a UPC symbol.

Gluck

with ‘dot org’ at the end people know it is an invented word for the name of an organization.

a psychologist could probably tell you the effect of vertical versus slanted lines. it took me a while to get the difference between the two sets of logos (odd and even columns). is the design supposed to evoke a bar code? trees?

I voted for 1 because I like the vertical lines, the computer type-face and the .org suffix.