This is the first of an occasional series on the Logo Contest blog: The Logo Question of the Quarter.

This quarter’s question goes to the professional designers out there: What would it take for you to participate in a logo contest?

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.

Yesterday, the Northwestern, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, wrote and published an article headlined Pickett woman wins Omro logo contest. I’m not linking to this article because it fails. It’s about a womain who won a logo contest. It reads:

A Pickett woman’s entry in the town of Omro’s logo contest was chosen by town residents to appear on the town’s recently launched Web site.

Nowhere in this article does it show the logo that won, or link to the town’s web site. This is a fail. More an online journalism fail than a logo contest fail, but, still, a fail.

If there’s a logo contest you have that we should cover, share it in the comments below.

This is a blog where new logo contests, shameful logo contests, and exciting logo contests will be linked to, maybe discussed, possibly celebrated, and definitely written about.