Re: graphics designer needed for logo help

[Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Even with a "grand prize" you won't get the true professionals
participating in such a game. All whom I know and have worked with
openly oppose them.

While engaging students in such activities might seem worthwhile, you
are only tapping their artistic abilities and not their design
abilities. Design is not about looks, but about purpose, utility, and
character. Many artists are ill-equipped to be successful designers,
and many successful designers couldn't survive as artists.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> I might consider using this approach if I was working with a group of
> students; have them submit their efforts for class credit, feedback
> and some insight into how work is evaluated and selected, then pay the
> "winner" full market fee for the use of his or her design.  But I'd be
> embarrassed to have my name or company associated with this as a means
> of obtaining work from professionals with experience and credentials.
> Unless maybe I had $100,000 to award as the "grand prize" and a couple
> of dozen pallets of techie toys to hand out as "thanks for entering"
> prizes.

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