Re: [Inkscape-user] OT: Where to post Inkscape contest announcements
John: Probably Inkscapeforum.com is a good place to start. Anyway, I'd suggest you to think twice before proposing such contest. You're offering a very small amount of money as a price (far below the street price of a logo, even for my country where our currency is 1/4 of a dollar) and these kind of contests are perceived generally as a cheap strategy to get several logos offering almost nothing. It may damage your reputation among the designers and you'll only get design proposals from hobbists with a poor or non-existing knowledge about design. Contests are generally considered as spec-work, and serious designers really hate that.
If you don't have money, maybe the best thing is to announce that you need a logo, that you have that money and no more and let the people interested decide if they want to design something for that amount. You could ask for a portfolio of the interested people and choose one, and from that point continue working as a regular contract work.
Hi!
About Inkscapeforum.com... I tried to create an account, but I didn't receive the mail for activation. Now my account is blocked, and when I try to login, the answer is: "The specified username is currently inactive. If you have problems activating your account, please contact a board administrator.". Great. Except that if you want to contact an administrator, you must be logged... Very funny ^^.
So, Someone can give me an email adress of an administrator, or if an administrator of this board reads this message, can he do something, please? My pseudo is 'Teto'.
Thanks a lot! Teto.
Le 30/10/2010 00:27, Guillermo Espertino a écrit :
John: Probably Inkscapeforum.com is a good place to start. ...
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 19:27 -0300, Guillermo Espertino wrote:
John: Probably Inkscapeforum.com is a good place to start. Anyway, I'd suggest you to think twice before proposing such contest. You're offering a very small amount of money as a price (far below the street price of a logo, even for my country where our currency is 1/4 of a dollar) and these kind of contests are perceived generally as a cheap strategy to get several logos offering almost nothing. It may damage your reputation among the designers and you'll only get design proposals from hobbists with a poor or non-existing knowledge about design. Contests are generally considered as spec-work, and serious designers really hate that.
If you don't have money, maybe the best thing is to announce that you need a logo, that you have that money and no more and let the people interested decide if they want to design something for that amount. You could ask for a portfolio of the interested people and choose one, and from that point continue working as a regular contract work.
<snip> Thank you, all, again. This has been very helpful and enlightening - John
No!Spec provides a lot of info on why some designers hate spec work http://www.no-spec.com/
I know this might sound like a flame bait, but the NO!SPEC campaign has an awful logo. I think they could have better one if they had announced a contest on 99designs.com or crowdspring.com :)
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 4:25 PM, John A. Sullivan III <jsullivan@...2769...> wrote:
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 19:27 -0300, Guillermo Espertino wrote:
John: Probably Inkscapeforum.com is a good place to start. Anyway, I'd suggest you to think twice before proposing such contest. You're offering a very small amount of money as a price (far below the street price of a logo, even for my country where our currency is 1/4 of a dollar) and these kind of contests are perceived generally as a cheap strategy to get several logos offering almost nothing. It may damage your reputation among the designers and you'll only get design proposals from hobbists with a poor or non-existing knowledge about design. Contests are generally considered as spec-work, and serious designers really hate that.
If you don't have money, maybe the best thing is to announce that you need a logo, that you have that money and no more and let the people interested decide if they want to design something for that amount. You could ask for a portfolio of the interested people and choose one, and from that point continue working as a regular contract work.
<snip> Thank you, all, again. This has been very helpful and enlightening - John
Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user
announced a contest on 99designs.com or crowdspring.com :)
hahaha pure flame bait ;-)
Ant
2010/11/1 Jarosław Foksa <jarek@...2725...>:
No!Spec provides a lot of info on why some designers hate spec work http://www.no-spec.com/
I know this might sound like a flame bait, but the NO!SPEC campaign has an awful logo. I think they could have better one if they had announced a contest on 99designs.com or crowdspring.com :)
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 4:25 PM, John A. Sullivan III <jsullivan@...2769...> wrote:
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 19:27 -0300, Guillermo Espertino wrote:
John: Probably Inkscapeforum.com is a good place to start. Anyway, I'd suggest you to think twice before proposing such contest. You're offering a very small amount of money as a price (far below the street price of a logo, even for my country where our currency is 1/4 of a dollar) and these kind of contests are perceived generally as a cheap strategy to get several logos offering almost nothing. It may damage your reputation among the designers and you'll only get design proposals from hobbists with a poor or non-existing knowledge about design. Contests are generally considered as spec-work, and serious designers really hate that.
If you don't have money, maybe the best thing is to announce that you need a logo, that you have that money and no more and let the people interested decide if they want to design something for that amount. You could ask for a portfolio of the interested people and choose one, and from that point continue working as a regular contract work.
<snip> Thank you, all, again. This has been very helpful and enlightening - John
Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user
Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user
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