On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 19:27 -0300, Guillermo Espertino wrote: <snip> Thank you, all, again. This has been very helpful and enlightening - John

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 > > 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(a)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(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user >