Earlier in the week, we asked you to help celebrate Steve Ballmer's $2 billion basketball acquisition by giving the ex-Microsoft man a logo he could be proud of. And you, dear readers, done very, very good.
Some of you chose a more traditional route, some a little absurdist, and a few of you seem to have completely misunderstood the assignment altogether. We couldn't be prouder.
Boiling the entries down to a single winner wasn't easy, but that esteemed title goes to a one DC Erlanda, who created the busy, peak-Ballmer masterpiece you see below.
As for our runners-up, in no particular order:
via Seymour Fry
via Shane Skwarek
And just because we have no idea what's going on here (other than the fact that it's great), our first ever Coach's Award goes to:
via Baseball
In our eyes, though, you're all winners. All of our lovely entries lie below, and each is special in its own, unique way (just, you know, not special enough). Have a very Ballmer day.
via Scott
via Greg Hauze
via Jonas Demuro
via Dale Chapman
via Eric
via Harry Georgeson
via Majyd Hassan
via Shea Williamson
via Edward Ford (and made in PowerPoint for authenticity's sake)
via Peter Sun
via Mister Furious
via Sean McCune
via Mark Parq
via Nate Becker
via Igor Bebic
via Rob Simpson
via Larr Garza
via Ian McAllister
via Peter Accomando
Top art via Natalie Litofsky.
DISCUSSION
Oh, come on, this is inspired. Clippy the MS Office Assistant as the new mascot for the Ballmer-owned Clippers? Perfection.