> A contest usually means that everyone feels the need to submit already
> refined work (because others do ...). But starting with sketches and
> going through several iterations with feedback is more efficient.
I've been thinking about this and I got myself agreeing with you before I read
your email. I decided to abandon the contest idea and embrace the brainstorm
one. That's why I decided to work on a set of logos I got in my mind, and
send them so that others can see and send theirs or use mine to create new
ones.
But I don't think that we should just try to work on the first "logo concept"
that appears. A logo is something that either clicks or it doesn't, so we
should have alot of people just submiting different shapes, typesets, etc,
until one of those... clicks :)
> A contest often leads to a decision between different designs where more
> variation of one design might yield a better result.
I agree. When a friend of mine, who is a designer, is hired to work on a
company logo he thinks of many shapes and works on many variations of the
same shape: a dot here instead of there, many colors, etc. He isn't the one
who picks the final product: he presents everything to the client and then
the client chooses.
Here, the client and the designer are the community.
> How about anyone who likes submits proposals and we discuss them. Once
> something satisfies enough of the right people, it is adopted. It still
> can be replaced if something better comes up, especially as the project
> will not need or have broad public exposure for quite a while.
Agree.
> I wonder if you have any idea of what you are asking for here. One step
> at a time, you just can't jump to the top of a mountain. A good logo
> will be a nice starting point for the rest, but there's no need to
> define all that in advance. "Submit several months worth of work or
> don't bother at all" is nothing you should ask from volunteers in
> open-source projects.
I didn't explained myself here. My fault :)
I don't want people submiting websites, of course. My idea was: please think
of the usability of your proposals before you submit them. For example: you
can have a great image, with a lot of detail, but will that work as an icon?
The idea is not to have a compatible website ready, but to ask yourself: will
this work in a given website?
Sorry for the mess in going into this subject :)
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