For Designers AND Cartoonists: Rejected Obama Logos

This is making the blogosphere rounds, thanks to Drawn: An inside look at the process of designing Barack Obama's campaign logo. You see some graphically interesting, though emotionally vacant, designs:

(Looks like something for the Olympics.)

Plus a neat cartoon speech bubble design:

Everyone, it seems, is in agreement that the "sunrise" logo that prevailed was the best, though.

It's always interesting to see which aspects of an artist's work needs to be hammered into place piece by piece, and which ones spring forth pretty much fully formed.