There’s just one little catch: You have to design a logo for A Voice for Men.
But the logo contest is a real thing, as is the prize. Go here for the details.
You can see my first attempt above. Post yours below! And maybe even submit it to the official contest.
Also, read the comments over at AVFM to see Mr. Elam bring the banhammer down on a graphic designer who offers to do the logo for free. No, really.
These are all dreadfully clever and perfectly appropriate. I can’t think how he will be able to choose just one.
My story!! Thank you!!! And congrats!!!!
(I feel justified in abusing the exclamation point as I’m elbow deep in PHP, again)
RE: Opheliamonarch
Translation: can’t understand how to sponsor.
Here’s how it works. If you see a story or prompt you want to sponsor (if I haven’t written it yet, you can GUARANTEE it gets written by tossing twenty bucks in the kitty), click the ‘Donate’ button on my Spookathon post. Put in whatever the story costs–if I haven’t written it yet, $20 is a safe bet and I’ll write to the length accordingly. Give me a note for which story it’s for, or just tell me here. Does that make sense?
RE: Argenti
I have even MORE treebeast goodness now! This one is Kittehs’ story, co-starring Chavela’s cat, Blacksockswhite!
Congrats, LBT!
Have you all gone and taken a look at the, er, real submissions? Some amazingly mediocre ones. I hope Paul chooses the one with the logo that looks like a stick man trying to have sex with a ladder. Or maybe the one that as far as I can tell depicts a butch short-haired woman trying to steal a small boy she’s trapped in her cleavage.
HEY! I DID NOT GIVE THEM PERMISSION TO USE ME ON THEIR LOGO!
a picture of a goat’s ass is within the community standards, right?
I’m fond of the one with the buff, manly letter M myself. Also the M is blurry for some reason? And the R in “for” is backwards. Because graphic design.
I just realized that if they change their logo then I’ll have to change the A Voice For Pierre logo, too.
I weep for their art abilities. And I say that as someone who’s AWFUL at design.
Huh… looking through some of those entries, it looks like some of them think it’s A Voice for Agent 47.
Since it apparently wasn’t showing up earlier, I’ve fiddled with the sharing options (I originally had it set to “anyone with the link” but now it’s public, so this should work now:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/5WyI7EiT-8E7IkYWi_6YigHcV1vO5Vkcd_KKeqRNQ9FwCPQ1eJpDv1tvbjRoomuSwI3qG2gVlbk
That money is as good as mine!
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g251/lemurbouy/avfm.jpg
Sorry, Athywren, link gets me a 403.
@LBT. Ophelia’s a bit shorter if you like. 🙂
Okay It’s three in the mornin’ here, and we still seem incapable of working out which stories are up for sponsoring and which have already been done.
So…donate button we can handle. We’ve lobbed $25 your way and decided to cut our loses as we are obviously irredeemably incapable.
Let’s just call it early morning thickness.
How ’bout you pick the story you want to write the most, that would be lovely.
*slinks away in shame’
Losses, stars – so very, very tired. 🙁
RE: ophelia
Don’t worry about it! There was one prompt that I KNOW my prompter can’t afford to pay for, so thanks to you, Reverend Alpert and the vampire pumpkins will totally get written! Thanks so much!
(And FYI, when a prompt has been sponsored, I usually post a message going, “thanks for your donation! You can read X here!” It’s a bit of an unwieldy system, but I’ve yet to find a better way.)
Love the designs!
And YAYYYY LBT HAZ HOUSING!!!!
That is such good news!
Alpert! More not-tree! Lovely 🙂
And I love what you did with my prompt btw, exactly my approach to Halloween — amuse the kidlets, get cranky at un-costumed teens (funny story — some teens come by, not in costume, I let them have two candies a piece, rest of their friends catch up, get told I’m only giving them 2 each, all but one just walks by…he catches up and I hear “I’ve got more candy than you!”. Yep, because 2 > 0 ya twits!)
RE: Kittehs
I posted your story as well!
RE: Argenti
Yeah, I had a lot of fun writing it. I love that I get to write all these serials now, they’re so much fun.
That’s awesome, LBT! ^_^ I’m glad your search for housing is over.
I loved this: Why did we fuck up and choose wrong? Because we’re not fucking professionals – we’re a volunteer-donation-based organization where everyone works 16-20 hours a day just to keep up.
So… “everyone” is working 16-20 hours a day, volunteering for AVfM, where the situation looks like this:
AVfM is a VOLUNTEER-BASED – donation based organization with NO INCOME. Do YOU GET THIS? Some months Paul needs to save on meals, and he’s ussually doing 20 things at once with 20-30 people asking him to make a decision at the same time. Sometimes wrong decisions are made, but we keep going on, we don’t make fucking excuses or play smartass comment majesty wars – we do work and we keep moving – errors, mistakes and all.
Heh.
Oh yeah. Loving the one with the mustachioed O in “voice” and the one for “Avice for Men.” (Oh, and “humanist countre-theory.” Why use spell check when you’re only writing seven words?) I’m kind of tempted to submit my own concept, which is a Word document in which I’ve typed “A Voice for Men” and “Humanist Counter-Theory” in helvetica font and then bolded it.
I read it, LBT, and left a comment!
I love Blacksockswhite doing nice stuff like leaving dead things to cheer Spiritwoman up. Kitties, they iz so thoughtful.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this logo’s design somewhere else. Like, the exact same thing except for some video game thing if I remember right.
http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/create-design-help-fathers-children-264109/entries/13
Could you elaborate? I’m a pretty big fan of the Hitman games but I’m not sure what you mean.
Just want to point out to everyone who made but couldn’t submit a picture:
Inkscape, which is free, can vectorize bitmaps. Open the image and then go to Path -> Trace Bitmap.