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fuxu · 08-26-2004, 12:44 AM

sounds like fun

Lexxx · 08-26-2004, 12:56 AM

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Originally posted by tootie

If you lose the "N" and put the chick up there instead; write the name as "Newbury Modeling Group" with "modeling" the way it is and the "group" the same way as "newbury";do the address tag three lines of white text... I might pick it

Other designs are getting better ...

tootie · 08-26-2004, 01:03 AM

Okay, how is this one?

Rantan · 08-26-2004, 01:40 AM

Two more trys!

Sarma · 08-26-2004, 01:43 AM

Good morning,
is this still on? Till when will it take, and what time zone are we talking about?

Rantan · 08-26-2004, 01:44 AM

i believe it's still on...

Sarma · 08-26-2004, 02:00 AM

New day, new try:

MissMiranda · 08-26-2004, 02:00 AM

Here is my attempt.

Nick416 · 08-26-2004, 03:12 AM

My try

Nick416 · 08-26-2004, 03:24 AM

thediablo · 08-26-2004, 08:22 AM

ddamn

to much time on this thing...

so it was

Newbury St. Modeling or Newbury Modeling Group

make up your mind dude.... wtf

congrats to the winner

Lexxx · 08-26-2004, 08:41 AM

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Originally posted by thediablo
ddamn

to much time on this thing...

so it was

Newbury St. Modeling or Newbury Modeling Group

make up your mind dude.... wtf

congrats to the winner

It was always Newbury Modeling Group (located on Newbury St)... what's the confusion here??

I'm seeing better designs now...

It's long, but the designs before were no good. Respek.

skrog · 08-26-2004, 08:55 AM

cayne · 08-26-2004, 09:27 AM

some cool logos!

skrog · 08-26-2004, 10:16 AM

weeeeeeeeeeeee

skrog · 08-26-2004, 10:52 AM

Yo Lexxx!!!!!

Lexxx · 08-26-2004, 11:06 AM

Hold on...

TheWildcard · 08-26-2004, 11:09 AM

another cheap contest

Lexxx · 08-26-2004, 11:14 AM

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Originally posted by Nick416

OK bitches...

The one above is the WINNING entry... simple and elegant at the same time.

Post your paypal addy and I'll take care of it.
I have to go to Montreal in about 10 minutes so if no reply I'll take care of you first thing Sunday night.
Thank you all for participating. Sorry for initial confusion.

My email is professional.cash AT comcast.net

scrm · 08-26-2004, 11:21 AM

you have chosen the worst

Lexxx · 08-26-2004, 11:30 AM

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Originally posted by scrm
you have chosen the worst

"I have 6 credit cards, each buying 1 trial a day"

I think you should stick at what your'e doing

thediablo · 08-26-2004, 11:34 AM

humm...

Congrats i guess

Nick416 · 08-26-2004, 11:57 AM

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Originally posted by Lexxx
My email is professional.cash AT comcast.net

Mail sent

Nick416 · 08-26-2004, 12:04 PM

thediablo

thanks, bro

tootie · 08-26-2004, 12:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lexxx
If you lose the "N" and put the chick up there instead; write the name as "Newbury Modeling Group" with "modeling" the way it is and the "group" the same way as "newbury";do the address tag three lines of white text... I might pick it

Other designs are getting better ...

So you were very vague and unclear about what you wanted, you kept us up late making changes based on YOUR suggestions with suggestions that you might pick us, you extended the contest to a time when most people are sleeping, and then you chose an entry that came AFTER the 3 AM deadline you set?

You're on my contest blacklist now. And not because you didn't choose me (I understand and accept the risks associated with entering contests), but because you wasted dozens of hours of designers time here enticing them to make changes, and then chose an entry that came in AFTER the deadline that you set. Very unprofessional way to hold a contest.

chri$tian · 08-26-2004, 12:27 PM

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Originally posted by tootie
So you were very vague and unclear about what you wanted, you kept us up late making changes based on YOUR suggestions with suggestions that you might pick us, you extended the contest to a time when most people are sleeping, and then you chose an entry that came AFTER the 3 AM deadline you set?

You're on my contest blacklist now. And not because you didn't choose me (I understand and accept the risks associated with entering contests), but because you wasted dozens of hours of designers time here enticing them to make changes, and then chose an entry that came in AFTER the deadline that you set. Very unprofessional way to hold a contest.

Sarma · 08-26-2004, 12:41 PM

tootie rules!

Lexxx · 08-26-2004, 02:15 PM

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Originally posted by tootie
So you were very vague and unclear about what you wanted, you kept us up late making changes based on YOUR suggestions with suggestions that you might pick us, you extended the contest to a time when most people are sleeping, and then you chose an entry that came AFTER the 3 AM deadline you set?

You're on my contest blacklist now. And not because you didn't choose me (I understand and accept the risks associated with entering contests), but because you wasted dozens of hours of designers time here enticing them to make changes, and then chose an entry that came in AFTER the deadline that you set. Very unprofessional way to hold a contest.

If it takes you dozens of hours to design THOSE entries... well, whatever. They all looked like half-assed amateur signs imho.

scrm · 08-26-2004, 02:23 PM

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Originally posted by Lexxx
"I have 6 credit cards, each buying 1 trial a day"

I think you should stick at what your'e doing

i think i can too, post 50 posts by day about shit and i will have 1000 posts as you very soon... but I think quantity of posts is way to nowhere and it doesn't matter dude

tootie · 08-26-2004, 02:25 PM

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Originally posted by Lexxx
If it takes you dozens of hours to design THOSE entries... well, whatever. They all looked like half-assed amateur signs imho.

What do you expect for $125?

Do you really expect designers to spend hours and hours to take the CHANCE to get $125? You are aware, I hope, that top notch logo design can run in the hundreds or even thousands of dollars range, right? And that is when the designer is CERTAIN that they get the money.

Case in point, Luka Pensa is one of the best logo designers around and he charges $180 and up. And he's not even U.S. based.

Also, this was NOT a logo contest. It was a sign contest. You want to pay $125 for a logo AND a sign? I took a chance, and so did others, and you screwed us, any way you look at it.

And I didn't say EACH person spent dozens of hours. I said you wasted dozens of hours of designers time. Designers is plural.

And aren't you supposed to be on the way to Montreal right now? Surely you didn't make it through airport security on both ends already?

chri$tian · 08-26-2004, 02:27 PM

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Originally posted by tootie
What do you expect for $125?

Do you really expect designers to spend hours and hours to take the CHANCE to get $125? You are aware, I hope, that top notch logo design can run in the hundreds or even thousands of dollars range, right? And that is when the designer is CERTAIN that they get the money.

Case in point, Luka Pensa is one of the best logo designers around and he charges $180 and up. And he's not even U.S. based.

Also, this was NOT a logo contest. It was a sign contest. You want to pay $125 for a logo AND a sign? I took a chance, and so did others, and you screwed us, any way you look at it.

And I didn't say EACH person spent dozens of hours. I said you wasted dozens of hours of designers time. Designers is plural.

And aren't you supposed to be on the way to Montreal right now? Surely you didn't make it through airport security on both ends already?

thediablo · 08-26-2004, 02:27 PM

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Originally posted by Lexxx
If it takes you dozens of hours to design THOSE entries... well, whatever. They all looked like half-assed amateur signs imho.

not a good way to answer lexxx... specially with the winner you picked, but i guess everyone has is own marketing strategys...

whatever....

someone bring the next contest

Theodor S. Geisel · 08-26-2004, 02:34 PM

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Originally posted by Lexxx
If it takes you dozens of hours to design THOSE entries... well, whatever. They all looked like half-assed amateur signs imho.

I certainly hope you're going to pay Nick416 soon or have already paid him instead of making the guy wait until Sunday night, since it seems that you have time to spout off random bullshit that no good designer wants to wade through any more.

chri$tian · 08-26-2004, 03:17 PM

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Originally posted by Theodor S. Geisel
I certainly hope you're going to pay Nick416 soon or have already paid him instead of making the guy wait until Sunday night, since it seems that you have time to spout off random bullshit that no good designer wants to wade through any more.

enter » · 08-26-2004, 03:21 PM

I had a feeling this contest was gonna be a disaster when he started asking every entrant to make changes to their design.

Oh well, NEXT

Sarma · 08-26-2004, 04:05 PM

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Originally posted by Lexxx
It's NOT over yet. Till 10pm bitches...

Yeah, and this attitude won't bring him far in the future too...

Lev · 08-26-2004, 04:10 PM

All you people who complain that this contest was a waste of a time shouldn't have entered in it, in the first place. All the contests are run in a similiar way, I have seen lots of them.
Second of all, those designs took at the most half an hour and not hours, like lots of you complained that it wasted your time. If those designs took you more than 30 min, then you are not a designer in the first place.

Just my

XJ Man · 08-26-2004, 04:11 PM

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Originally posted by tootie
Okay, how is this one?

I like this one the best!

galleryseek · 08-26-2004, 04:24 PM

Lexxx has a severe vision deficit.

08-26-2004, 04:40 PM

Lexxx...

I'm not an entrant, nor would I ever be for $125, but you gave a lot of good designers the shaft, insulted them, delayed payment, made designers make changes and added details halfway through the contest.

This is a poor way to conduct business. You offered a small cash prize...What the fuck did you expect? It makes my $300 contests look like big money, and you know what? I don't burn any bridges, I have designers always on hand for whatever my need is, people try hard because they know I'm honest, upfront and fair. If you ever run a contest again, don't expect many entrants. Good luck with the Agency.

Tootie...Good work, as well as the rest of you.

Doctor Dre · 08-26-2004, 04:51 PM

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Originally posted by skrog

Something quick!!

My paypal address: [email protected]

ICQ #: 201668633

Good luck to everyone that enters!!!!

yucky ... sorry to say that

Doctor Dre · 08-26-2004, 04:52 PM

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Originally posted by mind
nice and clean

Clean but hard to read

Doctor Dre · 08-26-2004, 04:52 PM

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Originally posted by AtlasChris
#3 (my favorite)

best entry so far

Doctor Dre · 08-26-2004, 04:53 PM

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Originally posted by skrog

That looks a lot better

galleryseek · 08-26-2004, 05:05 PM

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Originally posted by Doctor Dre
That looks a lot better

contest is over bud.

AmateurFlix · 08-26-2004, 05:26 PM

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Originally posted by Lev
All you people who complain that this contest was a waste of a time shouldn't have entered in it, in the first place. All the contests are run in a similiar way, I have seen lots of them.
Second of all, those designs took at the most half an hour and not hours, like lots of you complained that it wasted your time. If those designs took you more than 30 min, then you are not a designer in the first place.

Just my

Considering only $125 was offered and the deadline (initially) was the same day, why on earth would anyone expect a designer to spend more than a half hour coming up with concepts.

"Please drop everything you're doing right now and make me a logo immediately. I'll even give you $125 for your day's wages IF i like it."

That's not the way it was offered. He was asking for design concepts, not a finished piece.

This was a scam pure and simple and I was naive enough to participate in it. Whoever this jerk is in all likelyhood he's going to be meeting with his clients not with his "contest winner" but with all of the logos that looked halfway decent.

Congratulations on getting a bunch of people to do your design proposals for $125.

This isn't sour grapes over not winning the contest, it has just become very transparent what this guy's deal was.

No one presents a client with only one option even if it's a 'contest winner'. It's different if you're running a contest for YOUR OWN use.

If anyone here lives in Boston, take a look at what the sign hanging in front of the Newbury Modeling Group looks like when it goes up. I highly doubt it will be the contest winner. It will probably be an amalgamation of many of these designs.

bhutocracy · 08-26-2004, 05:28 PM

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Originally posted by Lexxx
If it takes you dozens of hours to design THOSE entries... well, whatever. They all looked like half-assed amateur signs imho.

For a half-assed contest. People didn't even know it was for a sign until halfway through. Heres some free hints..

1. Wait until you actually know or are able to articulate what you want and provide all the information at the start of the project.. decent and experienced designers will see this as a large flashing warning sign for a problem client on any future projects.

2. Don't insult the designers even if some of the entries were shite especially after adding information halfway through. You're working the marketplace and getting it done really cheap because people are slightly willing to be taken advantage of and write a low prize purse off as exposure or whatever other justification they can find for entering a crappy little comp with ill-defined parameters.
Designers always whinge in comps.. smile and nod because you're winning anyway by taking advantage of the system and their boredom or poverty. Just hope that the next job you may want is in the distant future when designers have turned over or forgotten.

3. Don't expect a Picasso for $125, or a sign, a logo and a business card for $150.. you get what you pay for - no wonder there were only a couple of decent designers bored or poor enough to enter.

chri$tian · 08-26-2004, 05:30 PM

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Originally posted by Doctor Dre
best entry so far

Thanks Dre

Platinumpimp · 08-26-2004, 05:33 PM

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Originally posted by Lexxx
If it takes you dozens of hours to design THOSE entries... well, whatever. They all looked like half-assed amateur signs imho.

Very nice way to approach us designers, cool stuff

chri$tian · 08-26-2004, 05:39 PM

What a DICK....

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shermo Guest Posts: n/a	Lexxx... I'm not an entrant, nor would I ever be for $125, but you gave a lot of good designers the shaft, insulted them, delayed payment, made designers make changes and added details halfway through the contest. This is a poor way to conduct business. You offered a small cash prize...What the fuck did you expect? It makes my $300 contests look like big money, and you know what? I don't burn any bridges, I have designers always on hand for whatever my need is, people try hard because they know I'm honest, upfront and fair. If you ever run a contest again, don't expect many entrants. Good luck with the Agency. Tootie...Good work, as well as the rest of you.

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