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Newspaper makes factual error about logo contest. Article comments ensue.

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:29:30 +0000

The Galesburg Register-Mail didn’t check all the facts when they wrote the article that said the Galesburg Public Library was holding a logo contest. It’s a shame, too, because I had already started writing about how a library may actually be deserving of your logo design efforts… and I want those two minutes of my life back.

So, no, it’s not the library that needs the logo, it’s the Galesburg Public Library Foundation, a new non-profit group, that does. If you’re still reading this snoozer, man, maybe you’ll want to read the article that got it all wrong.

For posterity, and because I’m in this way too deep to stop now, I saved a screenshot of the debacle. Enjoy.

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Looking for a logo contest? Rock Fest needs your talent.

admin — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:25:05 +0000

The Chippewa Herald has this report about the Rock Fest 2010′s logo contest:

Rock Fest organizers are holding a logo design contest to find a new logo.

Yup.

The deadline is April 22. More information can be had at http://www.rock-fest.com/.

Read the article here.

Logo contests, taking advantage of the vulnerable: county in Missouri pays $100 for pretty good logo

admin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:52:13 +0000

Man, I guess this is a good thing for Boone County Missouri’s taxpayers, and the winner’s ego, but still. Athlete storms logo contest: Hunter Allen wins Stormwater Management logo contest, and $100.

Are logo contests okay if you’re a college student, and it’s homework?

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:53:35 +0000

The Delaware County, Indiana, airport took an interesting approach with the logo contest it held. Instead of blindly asking designers to provide their work for free, they pitched the contest to local college design professors, who then assigned it to their students as homework.

From the Ball State Daily News:

According to a press release, senior Visual Communications major Samantha McIntire won the design contest for the airport out of a pool of 165 entries.

McIntire was awarded with the $500 contest prize at the Airport Authority Board meeting Tuesday.

According to the press release, the contest had designs from students of Ball State and Ivy Tech Community College and Ball State professors assigned the project as an assignment.