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.
Here’s a new vector Pierre logo…but the logo it’s based on is kind of terrible, so this is kind of terrible too.
I swear I’ve seen that black-V-with-sideways-bars logo before. A lot. It’s on the tip of my brain, but I just can’t place it.
I was also going to point out that a stark, angular, red/black logo screams fascism to me, and maybe the winning logo was itself the most successful troll, but it turned out that the colour scheme was in the brief anyway.
Its not even offensively bad, its just massively amateurish. I would expect nothing less if it was just one of their friends doing it, but to pay actual money to someone calling themselves a designer?
Awkward.
I swear I’ve seen that black-V-with-sideways-bars logo before.
Not entirely inappropriately, it reminds me of this:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ingsoc+logo&oq=ingsoc+logo&aqs=chrome..69i57.3417j0j8&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8
Katz — I like it. Let me know if you need the HTML tweaked 🙂
RE: CassandraSays
The only advantage I can see is a slight increase in convenience for the client,
*snrk* Yeah. Definitely smells like a company made to make money rather than actually be useful, for sure. In a way, I feel bad for AVFM; they got cheated.
RE: Argenti
LBT — just please make them have edges and not be a rectangle?
Totally! I was planning on pretty much having the little animals done digitally, black inks and cell colors on a transparent background, like I did the Roll For It guests.
That would explain why they keep donating to AVFM.
Speaking of the issues with this contest model: the 99designs site doesn’t even lock the images against right-click-saving. Not only do designers so the work for free, but any idiot can come along and swipe their designs.
(I was right-clicking to do a Google “search by image” after Charles Miller said the logo looked familiar. For the record, all I got was a million very different red-and-black images. If someone is inclined to trim the image down to just the logo and search by that, it might yield better results)
Emily: I tried that and still no dice.
RE: emilygoddess
Yuuuup. SO not ever using THAT place to sell my wares, kthx.
What really bemuses me is that AVFM used it at all. I thought they were a pretty popular site, with a commentariat comparable in size to Manboobz? Did Elam seriously not know if any of them were artists of a hireable quality? I mean, Manboobz has me, katz, and Shaenon, just off the top of my head. I guess I just feel weirdly CONFUSED by how Elam chose to do this.
Maybe doing art is un-manly or non-alpha, and that’s why they don’t have any artists in residence.
(I’m guessing the real reason is that if anyone suggested that they might be good at something Elam’s ego wouldn’t be able to take it and he’d drive them off.)
LBT — those are perfect!
The thing is, from what I’ve seen of AVfM and the other main MRM sites, they don’t really have much of a community outside of the “she done me wrong” stories. We know a lot about each other because we enjoy each other’s company and we aren’t hellbent on talking about the same damn thing eleventybillion times. So, it would come as zero shock to me that Paulie only knows about the personal lives of, tops, 6 readers
I don’t think Elam has friends, he has followers and enemies and that seems to be it.
Wow. That graphic designer was shockingly polite throughout that whole conversation. It’s almost too bad he’s an MRA bonehead.
I love Paulie’s “I am working on my anger this week!!! RAAAAAAARRRG” spiel as he bans someone for giving him free advice.
Au contraire: They know the artistic skills of their members because of Artistry Against Misandry.
RE: Shadow
from what I’ve seen of AVfM and the other main MRM sites, they don’t really have much of a community
This shouldn’t be a surprise to me, but I find this sad. I love getting to know other Boobzers! I’ve made buddies through there! (Including, most recently, a lurker who turned out to be friends with one of my friends!)
RE: katz
LOLZ. Touche.
Look likes an stylized bull to me. Which makes sense, because that’s what their site is. So, graphic accuracy?
Reminds me a bit of the texas a&m or texas tech logos.
katz, love the new AVfP logo! 😀
I couldn’t resist. They want Vector art? Flash does Vector art.
http://imgur.com/FstLRh0
(Epilepsy warning: red-green strobe)
Yikes! That was like a look in Pauly’s alleged mind!
With Papyrus, no less! You sadist.
Comic Sans is too good for them.
Oh, and congratulations on the housing, LBT! 🙂
Woo, yeah! Now I just gotta survive the holidays, and I am SET, my friend!