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 In the Dallas Morning News this morning there is a story about the Cedar Hill Police Department going to the Cedar Hill High School for a FREE logo. Read the article. Mr Bruno, the art teacher for the school said, "I stressed to kids how NEAT to would be to see the design for the next five or 10 years." Wow, now that will get you going, The word "neat", is it the new "well-designed" catch word? Sgt. Charles Woods said that by thinking outside the realm of Professional designers the department has been rewarded with more than 150 suggestions, FREE of CHARGE. This demonstrates the continued effort of designers to change the minds of some businesses the value of what we do. Free logo contest in our community again. What do you think? Email Cedar Hill, TXSubmitted by casey on Sun, 09/30/2007 - 2:30pm. » login or register to post comments I don't like it, unless my logo winsSubmitted by griff on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 12:33am.We have seen this before, and honestly I could argue both sides. It is interesting to look at the evolution of this issue. The internet has pushed it to a new level. There are many companies making big money off of consumer generated content. Quite often the contributor gets nothing more that a tip of the hat. Two simple examples; (1) http://shirt.woot.com/ encourages people to contribute daily shirt designs that they then sell. (2) YouTube completely depends on people uploading personal and often times copyrighted material then they sell advertising on top of that!  OK, different world... good.Submitted by administrator on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 2:43pm.Does that mean the bug guy should work on our sales team pitch for customers? Not sure, but this just reeks of lack of appreciation for good communication. I see the good of letting the power to the people concept, but when it comes to important marketing aspects, such as your identity, that seems to be on another level. Lets be real too, those consumer generated ads were heavily tweeked by the agency to keep everything in-line (read, keeping the account). Thanks for the post griff, love that icon btw! Mark Usually, you get what you pay forSubmitted by griff on Sat, 09/29/2007 - 8:24am.I agree, i think your bit about appreciation is key. Unfortunately, that appreciation does not come untill a lesson is learned. Usually with this kind of thing, you end up getting what you paid for. And if you are not paying, you will rarely get the strategy and conceptual tied to the design. Oh, and the icon is the best photo i could dig up of myself. |
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Submitted by mark on Thu, 09/27/2007 - 10:10am.why does this smell like the deep ellum logo contest of several years back?
I am starting to think next time our company needs something, as important as our identity, we should just ask all our customers to whip up some designs in paint, and submit them. Based on this type of thinking, heck, why can't everything just be free?
I wonder how communication became valued at such low levels... can we blame it on perhaps technology? Oh, neat-o, you have a computer? YOU'RE A DESIGNER. :O
Mark