Wasn't there already a bounty? We never resolved the contest, and I can't even remember the link to the full collection of submissions. I thought whoever designed the final logo was to be given 1 stake for it? That was long ago though, but there should be some bounty.
The results of the contest went to the logo committee, here:
https://trello.com/c/JhDuvPYf/66-logo-contest-2-phase-of-narrowing-downOverall, there was no great consensus on what to do, so after UP left, we decided to start with finding/creating a symbol for NEM and then use that to help our branding to be consistent, and we came up with tomoe. This is still a work in progress, though.
I am not the one to decide, but I personally think that everyone who submitted a logo that made it to the final stage should get a stake. Some people worked hard and that is really great that they were motivated to help NEM.
I think rather than having many different threads discussing this, we should try to discuss things on the nem forums:
http://forum.nemcoin.com/index.php?topic=2228.msg2833;boardseen#new