First of all, don’t think
that IPPB has made any financial malpractice while reading this headline. This
is about an injustice made by IPPB towards some artists and MyGov initiative of
Govt. of India.
I have a pain in my mind for
criticizing IPPB, the long-cherished dream of India Post, at this moment when
it’s first branches have been inaugurated at Ranchi and Raipur. At the same time, I am writing this post with
immense pleasure because the fact which I had explained earlier through my
previous post “Total Confusion in IPPB Logo Design Competition” have come true.
I am not repeating the
issues that I had kicked up but you can still read that post from the following
link if you didn’t read that article or you forgotten the matter.
Now my questions are very
simple.
1.
Where is the selected 20 logos?
2.
Who is the winner and who got the price
money?
I am sure that no authority will
answer these questions. But since I have
raised the issue and predicted something, I have the responsibility to answer
these questions myself. Before answering
the questions, I am quoting some portion of my previous post here so that you
can cross check the answer with this scenario.
“Lots of questions
remaining unanswered while seeing the review process.
1. Whether it is a
serious competition or for a media publicity?
2. What is meant
my Approved Submission?
3. Whether actually
reviewed all the submissions?
4. Whether it is a
part of preplanned drama?
What is in short?
1. Inviting logos
from public and declares price money.
2. 4861 logo
submissions happening.
3. Simply shown
last submitted 600 logos are approved without making any review.
4. Selecting 20
logos violating all logo criteria for voting.
5. Other 4261
logos are still under the review process. “
In the above extract, I had
raised so many questions and finally I had come to a conclusion. Like earlier following are the answer to the
question that I have raised now.
1. Where is the selected 20 logos?
Actually, like everyone I
don’t know what has happened for that 20 logos but I can presume
something. Due to the substandard
quality of 20 selected logos, the authorities might have been ignored that. Otherwise some expert scrutiny might have
been done on other logos or they decided to drop the contest and take an advice
or design from professional design institutions.
2. Who is the winner and who got the price
money?
Since the logo of IPPB is
not from the so called selected 20 logos, there is no chance to declare a
winner or give the price money.
What about new logo
The final logo of IPPB which
I have shown below cannot actually be considered as a new logo. The first condition of the IPPB logo design
competition was it should be original.
But no one will say that the IPPB logo is original, instead it will say
that it is a mere copy of India Post logo.
The only notable difference is the round shape of red background instead
of rectangle.
I don’t know whether it can
be registered as Registered Trade Mark or not. Even though IPPB is a fully
owned company of India Post or India Post has no objection to take its logo for
IPPB, since India Post is a Government Department, I am not sure about the
legal implication behind the RTM.
If we leave the criteria, I
personally loved the IPPB logo and it has all the brand image of India
Post. According to my opinion the dark theme
color is the highlight of this logo and it is superb and it clearly distinguish
from all other banks’ theme colours. Only a talented designer can choose a
design like this.
The tagline “Aapka bank
aapke dwaar” is an apt one for IPPB. My submission in this contest was “Your Nearest
Bank”
Conclusion
Even though the IPPB logo
design competition was very popular among public and it has got very good
attention from medias, the authorities were not serious about this event. Lots of mistakes, mismatches and suspicious thing
had been seen everywhere and it has continued until the final selection of IPPB
logo.
It is common that the logos
of desired standard may not be received in a competition. Then the organizers have the full right to
cancel the contest and go for another logo.
This condition is also included in the terms and conditions of the
contest.
But here the scenario is
different because without reviewing all the submissions by experts they have
merely selected 20 below average logos for final voting. That is why the
selected logos got negative feedback. And
without any official announcing or explanation they opted another logo for
IPPB.
If they have the intension
to use this logo for IPPB earlier, the pre-planned logo design competition drama
could have been avoided. This is purely an injustice toward the persons who participated
in the competition. The complete responsibility of the failure of this contest
is vested up on the persons who authorized to review the submissions.
The only thing the
authorities can do at this moment is to release an official explanation on this
subject. So, let us wait for that……
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