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.
So does that mean that anyone can enter, but only MRAs will get the $300 if they win?
@ Cthulhu’s Intern
They look like Pac Man monsters with pieces of undigested food inside.
No, like I’m pretty sure there’s this one organization which I think has something to do with video games and activism that has that exact logo. The same design and everything. Those two Pac-Man monsters as you put it were video game controllers. Am I just remembering something wrong or is there one?
Possibly? It’s not like Elam is smart enough to check whether or not the logo he eventually buys is original.
Yay LBT! Go you. So glad it’s a go. (knocks wood).
Agent 47? I haz a disappoint. I was thinking of Agent 13 from Get Smart.
The company hosting the contest, though, would probably want to know if one of the designs submitted isn’t original, since they may be legally liable. If you remember where the original logo came from you may want to drop them a line (99 designs, I mean).
If it’s mediocre he wants, I can certainly oblige:
http://i.imgur.com/3KPDthP.png
Yay, LBT, for the housing and the stories, and yay everyone for your entries!!!
Is it just me, or does their top vote getter so far look like it would be a perfect logo for Nambla..gives me the creeps just a bit.
http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/create-design-help-fathers-children-264109/entries/22
my entry was deleted, despite my inclusion of goats. its misandry is what it is
I will take a mediocre design that is free of this kind of officious shit over your majesty any day.
Oh good lord. Elam, I know the point of your website is to provide yourself with a safe space in which to prance around being King Asshole of Yelling About Womensberg, but when you need a particular service done and you’re trying to get someone to do it for you, that would be a time to dial back on your usual tone of angry condescension. Like maybe cut the sarcastic insults, at least?
Maybe?
Okay, never mind. Shine on, you crazy diamond.
I like the mustache logo. They can be the hipster misogynists! That logo would get a thousand bucks on Kickstarter just for existing. $1500 if they find a way to add steampunk or bacon.
There’s already too much competition for the title of hipster misogynist king. Think of the number of indie bands alone that you’d have to wade through to get to someone as obscure as Elam.
My entry. At first I tried to design something with a clear, clean message, but then I remembered that cleaning is for girls. Men aren’t afraid to use lots of words and colors to convey their ideas.
http://imgur.com/LV2nJQ1
Elam is looking for too much attention. The more attention he gets, the closer he is to being mainstream. How could he be hipster misogynist king if he sells out like that?
He’ll have to do something about the hair, of course, and his beard isn’t long enough to qualify for true hipster-dom.
You’re all missing the obvious pun!
http://oi44.tinypic.com/14xplc7.jpg
(Watch that be upside down since this thing hates me)
Love your design, You’llNeverGuess. Dudebro tears and all!
Argenti – LOL. That’s what it is, all right.
Also, instead of pretending what he says is “satire,” he should be saying it’s “ironic.”
So looks like they’ve chosen a winner…only two days for the competition…no wonder they got such rubbish.
http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/create-design-help-fathers-children-264109/entries/10
Also, is it just me or is the image looking rather phallic….as opposed to the V and M I think it’s meant to be…
augochlorella, glad you liked it 🙂 I figured I was a shoo in, I really wanted that money for ten rents
And I also don’t understand their new logo, it has neither an A nor an f in it 😐
Their logo is going to be the lower half of a baby in a huge, full diaper?
See, now…I thought an anatomically-impossible sized penis between two stubby legs.
Or a person in a really baggy speedo.
Or the lower half of someone’s body as they’re sat on the world’s most precariously balanced. chair.
Or someone riding a bike, only depicted in an abstract way with the bike consisting of nothing but the frame (no wheels, pedals, etc).
I can’t believe they’re going to pay someone $300 for that.