You’ll have to at least barter something.

hhp

A free copy of the debut album will probably do. IYKWIM.

alright bro

Is this a contest (Halleluja!) or do you also intend to pay someone for doing this?

Jürgen Weltin

A few of the other forums I belong to take pride in the fact the each user has at least 10 different fake accounts for silly things like this. I am not so sure that that brand of humor is well tolerated here though. Regardless, I find this humorous, while at the same time I sit and shake my head wondering how someone would think anyone would just freely give something to someone else. I suppose it is possible, but isn’t it always interesting to see how the creative professionals are the ones that are the most likely targets. As if this person were saying: “oh yeah, this is easy stuff, just whip me up a logotype, ti won’t take you but 5 minutes.” You wouldn’t ask a lawyer to give you a freebie, unless your the next OJ Simpson, and I think that the presumptive nature of many individuals is rather obtuse.

Lawyers on a whole respect their own work more than many designers. I can’t imagine a lawyer simply giving away his/her service for little to nothing to the same extent designers do. Sadly people feel justified in asking for design for nothing.. and even more sadly there are designers willing to ablige, which only perpetuates the myth that what we do is nothing more than fun and therefor we should be willing to design for little to nothing:(

The true humor here is Nick Shinn’s response. He solved the problem and amused the rest of us in the process. I hope you enjoy the album Nick.

This is a load of rubbish. Five minutes spent.

Oh and if anyone recons it should be tarted up, I am a Plod’n’Stodge man, not a Whirl’n’Swirl. I could have turned the down stroke in the T into a curling tail, or even the base line of the S, but I didn’t. It was only meant tohave five minutes work done on it and thats all I spent.

Hmmm, Dratakis? That band must be from Crete :-)

ChrisL

Yeah, I know, I don’t enter competitions.
Well, occasionally.

Hey Steven, what do you think of all this kerfuffle you set in motion? :-)

kerfuffle

Great word. It'd be a cool URL:

"If you think you know what is going on, you haven't been here long enough."

kerfuffle.com

Note: That quote was actually said to me by someone in the purchasing dept. at McDonnell-Douglas Aircraft (since bought by Boeing)

And better than you probably would have got even if you had paid money

There is something that greatly troubles me about this comment...

...........

I guess Typophile's Design forum is all set to become the new Craigslist job board, where bands ask for logos, promising all kinds of work for the logo designer if they "make it big". And if they don't, well, the designer has a nice portfolio piece, right? Right?

Having said that, it seems that the members of Dratakis really are in high school...

http://www.myspace.com/rockmaniac

But in my humble opinion, that doesn't excuse them from finding out that designers need to make a living, just like everybody else.

And that Typophile is not a job board.

There is something that greatly troubles me about this comment…
...And that Typophile is not a job board.

I'm sorry for the misleading statement. I know that what he got isn't going to get him far. I've seen CD art layed out for printing, and in essence, all he got was an idea. (Probably too tasteful of one for a high school rock band to recognize the value of).

I was just making the point that Hamilton make something cool.

Some people will do something for the fun and joy of doing it. Should they be banned from creating things just for the fun of it?

Trying to be fair, in a forum attended heavily by pro designers, maybe...but a high-shooler wouldn't have thought it through, certainly.

If we do it in a classy way, I don't see why
we shouldn't advertise type design jobs here.

hhp