The IACP Logo Design Competition Result

In January 2006, the IACP Board of Directors (BOD) decided to designate an official logo for our newly established association through a design competition.  A five-person committee, headed by Prof. Qing Shen, was formed to organize the logo competition.  All IACP members and friends were invited to participate in this competition.  Six people submitted a total of 10 sets of logo designs, each symbolizing “China”, “International”, and/or “Planning” in some artistic and imaginative way.  The committee members voted independently to choose their preferred logos.  The design submitted by Jeff Hsiao, a graduate student at Texas A&M University, received the most votes and hence the first prize.  This logo was subsequently revised by Jeff Hsiao and Zhan Guo based on the committee’s recommendations.  The revised design was accepted by the IACP BOD in June 2006 as the official logo.

The IACP logo has two parts: graphic and text.  The graphic part includes three English letters representing the three key characteristics of this organization: International, China, and Planning.  The three letters, when combined, form the Chinese word “center”, which is also the abbreviation of “China”.  The background is the traditional Chinese red color.  The text part spells out the organization name in both English and Chinese in black color with a white background, which echoes the black and white letters in the graphic part.

The competition was quite close. Here is the final result:
(Click designer's name to view logo design)

Winner:
     Jeff HSIAO (PhD Student, Texas A&M University)

Second place (2 people, in alphabetic order):
     Yang CHEN (Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania)
     Ke FANG (World Bank)

Honorable mention (3 people, in alphabetic order):
     Yufeng GUO (American Planning Association)
     Yidong HU (Wuhan Urban Planning and Design Academy)
     Qi Zhang (Graduate Student, Tongji University)