CIECA announced the winner of the organization’s logo refresh contest on September 18 during the annual CIECA CONNEX conference in Charlottesville, VA. Lauren Stefanov, a graphic designer at Safelite Autoglass®, created the winning design and received a $500 Amazon gift card.
Stefanov has been employed with Safelite for the past two and a half years and works in the company’s marketing department.
“I was shocked and excited when I learned that my logo was the winning design and am honored that my logo was chosen,” said Stefanov, who also received the second-place prize—a $100 Amazon gift card—for an additional logo she created. Dina Magon, a visual designer at CCC Information Services, was the third-place winner and received a $50 Amazon gift card.
Stefanov said the inspiration for the new logo came from the words connectivity, translating and simplification.
“I wanted to tie in elements from the previous logo to the design and used a single circle rather than the multiple circles in the original logo,” she said. “The three half circles radiating out from the main circle symbolize technology, translating and connectivity.”
The outer black ring is to reflect the C in CIECA and "houses" the "technology, connectivity and translating" inner circle and three half circles.
Stefanov graduated from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in graphic design.
The finalists’ designs are featured on the CIECA website: https://www.cieca.com/info.php?pnum=85bc7d3febc918&preview=1.
