OT: Where to post Inkscape contest announcements
Hello, all. Our company is sponsoring a small logo contest (two logos - USD 150 each) and I'd like to advertise it to the Inkscape user community. I did not see a commercial announcements list and did not want to abuse the user list. What would be the appropriate way to distribute the details of the contest to Inkscape users? Thanks - John
On Thursday 28 October 2010 12:46:27 John A. Sullivan III wrote:
Hello, all. Our company is sponsoring a small logo contest (two logos - USD 150 each) and I'd like to advertise it to the Inkscape user community. I did not see a commercial announcements list and did not want to abuse the user list. What would be the appropriate way to distribute the details of the contest to Inkscape users? Thanks - John
As I understand it this "contest" is a way of getting graphic artists to submit designs, then you pick your favorites and pay that artist or pair of artists a total of $300. Many graphic artists object to doing work on spec. And $150 per logo is at the low end of the scale in my experience. I'll inquire further in the graphic arts community. My reaction is that I don't work on spec however the request is framed.
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 14:24 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
On Thursday 28 October 2010 12:46:27 John A. Sullivan III wrote:
Hello, all. Our company is sponsoring a small logo contest (two logos - USD 150 each) and I'd like to advertise it to the Inkscape user community. I did not see a commercial announcements list and did not want to abuse the user list. What would be the appropriate way to distribute the details of the contest to Inkscape users? Thanks - John
As I understand it this "contest" is a way of getting graphic artists to submit designs, then you pick your favorites and pay that artist or pair of artists a total of $300. Many graphic artists object to doing work on spec. And $150 per logo is at the low end of the scale in my experience. I'll inquire further in the graphic arts community. My reaction is that I don't work on spec however the request is framed.
That's helpful to know as we are not graphic artists, have no idea how that world works, and simply wanted to take the same open approach to our logo as we do with our software - opening it to anyone anywhere who was interested. If that's inappropriate or insulting, then we'll take a different direction. Thanks - John
No!Spec provides a lot of info on why some designers hate spec work http://www.no-spec.com/
I think you're better off just picking an artist or two who you like the work of and then paying them both, regardless of which gets picked
Ant
On 28 October 2010 20:31, John A. Sullivan III <jsullivan@...2769...> wrote:
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 14:24 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
On Thursday 28 October 2010 12:46:27 John A. Sullivan III wrote:
Hello, all. Our company is sponsoring a small logo contest (two logos - USD 150 each) and I'd like to advertise it to the Inkscape user community. I did not see a commercial announcements list and did not want to abuse the user list. What would be the appropriate way to distribute the details of the contest to Inkscape users? Thanks - John
As I understand it this "contest" is a way of getting graphic artists to submit designs, then you pick your favorites and pay that artist or pair of artists a total of $300. Many graphic artists object to doing work on spec. And $150 per logo is at the low end of the scale in my experience. I'll inquire further in the graphic arts community. My reaction is that I don't work on spec however the request is framed.
That's helpful to know as we are not graphic artists, have no idea how that world works, and simply wanted to take the same open approach to our logo as we do with our software - opening it to anyone anywhere who was interested. If that's inappropriate or insulting, then we'll take a different direction. Thanks - John
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Thank you. That was very helpful. In fact, I was mystified by why someone would not want to work on spec - how can one work without a specification. I did not realize it meant speculation - so a great deal of clarity. Our project doesn't fit all the objectionable criteria - we do have a firm idea of what we want; it is a temporary throw-away project; we do plan to work with the finalist to refine the ideas. Nonetheless, I see the reasons for objection and the ways in which we do fit the description. Thanks again - John
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 01:02 +0100, Antonio Roberts wrote:
No!Spec provides a lot of info on why some designers hate spec work http://www.no-spec.com/
I think you're better off just picking an artist or two who you like the work of and then paying them both, regardless of which gets picked
Ant
On 28 October 2010 20:31, John A. Sullivan III <jsullivan@...2769...> wrote:
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 14:24 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
On Thursday 28 October 2010 12:46:27 John A. Sullivan III wrote:
Hello, all. Our company is sponsoring a small logo contest (two logos - USD 150 each) and I'd like to advertise it to the Inkscape user community. I did not see a commercial announcements list and did not want to abuse the user list. What would be the appropriate way to distribute the details of the contest to Inkscape users? Thanks - John
As I understand it this "contest" is a way of getting graphic artists to submit designs, then you pick your favorites and pay that artist or pair of artists a total of $300. Many graphic artists object to doing work on spec. And $150 per logo is at the low end of the scale in my experience. I'll inquire further in the graphic arts community. My reaction is that I don't work on spec however the request is framed.
That's helpful to know as we are not graphic artists, have no idea how that world works, and simply wanted to take the same open approach to our logo as we do with our software - opening it to anyone anywhere who was interested. If that's inappropriate or insulting, then we'll take a different direction. Thanks - 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
On Thursday 28 October 2010 14:24:19 John Culleton wrote:
On Thursday 28 October 2010 12:46:27 John A. Sullivan III wrote:
Hello, all. Our company is sponsoring a small logo contest (two logos - USD 150 each) and I'd like to advertise it to the Inkscape user community. I did not see a commercial announcements list and did not want to abuse the user list. What would be the appropriate way to distribute the details of the contest to Inkscape users? Thanks - John
As I understand it this "contest" is a way of getting graphic artists to submit designs, then you pick your favorites and pay that artist or pair of artists a total of $300. Many graphic artists object to doing work on spec. And $150 per logo is at the low end of the scale in my experience. I'll inquire further in the graphic arts community. My reaction is that I don't work on spec however the request is framed.
The replies I received on another list were all negative. In addition to not doing work on speculation the fee of $150 per design was considered ridiculously low. A fee of $1,000 was mentioned. You can probably get lower prices at elance.com. But it would pay to look over the portfolios of the bidders carefully, and ask for references.
I think it would very much depend on what the project your wanting the logo for, if its something thats sufficiently 'open' then you may find you have more joy than if its just a company wanting to do a logo on the cheap, which is a bit how it came across in the first email. I know various open source projects have done logo competitions, and we do for our about box images, but its a bit different from a company... Guess some more who you are what it is details might help.
Just 2c
Cheers
John
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:41 PM, John Culleton <john@...1668...> wrote:
On Thursday 28 October 2010 14:24:19 John Culleton wrote:
On Thursday 28 October 2010 12:46:27 John A. Sullivan III wrote:
Hello, all. Our company is sponsoring a small logo contest (two logos - USD 150 each) and I'd like to advertise it to the Inkscape user community. I did not see a commercial announcements list and did not want to abuse the user list. What would be the appropriate way to distribute the details of the contest to Inkscape users? Thanks - John
As I understand it this "contest" is a way of getting graphic artists to submit designs, then you pick your favorites and pay that artist or pair of artists a total of $300. Many graphic artists object to doing work on spec. And $150 per logo is at the low end of the scale in my experience. I'll inquire further in the graphic arts community. My reaction is that I don't work on spec however the request is framed.
The replies I received on another list were all negative. In addition to not doing work on speculation the fee of $150 per design was considered ridiculously low. A fee of $1,000 was mentioned. You can probably get lower prices at elance.com. But it would pay to look over the portfolios of the bidders carefully, and ask for references. -- John Culleton, Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" $5.95 at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
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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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