WordPress, the web’s best blogging tool, holds WordCamps which are “informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other.”

I’ve been using WordPress casually for a couple of years now and recently saw a blog posting on their site announcing that they were holding a contest to design the logo for the next WordCamp in New York City. Being from New Jersey I couldn’t resist, so I put together a submission and I lost! Well sort of. In the end I, and four other WordPress lovers came up with very similar subway sign ideas that ended up garnering the most overall votes. The judges were so taken with these submission that they declared all four of us winners. Our designs will be used on a variety of materials to market the event.

See http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/2009/09/08/logo-contest-winners/ for more.

The design I submitted was: