Ownership
I figure I'll announce this now. artClick (and photographica) is part of the Mozi Media Group, LLC. Named after my childhood dog, the whole idea is to keep you from taking my house, car and other non-existant assets away. While previously you granted arsgraphica the perpetual right to display your work, you now are granting Mozi Media Group, LLC the perpetual rights to display your work. Nothing big here.
artClick Logo Contest
As you can see, this website now needs a logo. Mine, well, sucks. Shall we do a logo contest?
Read inside for the details:
Purpose
The main logo symobl for artClick, which will be used for the website, t-shirts, printed matter, trinkets, and so on. This list is not exhaustive. ArtClick hopes to become a community were artists can share, learn and become inspired.
Pointers
- The design must work on a business card, letter head, t-shirt, or any other printed material.
- The logo must be usable in monochrome or color (in say 2 or 3 colors).
- The logo must not offend or exploit anyone's sex, race, religion, morality, culture, nor be salacious or pornographic.
- If the existing color scheme doesn't work for your logo, that is fine but it would be nice if you could come up with a good one that fit.
- The logo must be available as a vector file such as illustrator, freehand or other widely used file format. It would be great if you could provide a color seperated file for tshirts and such. The t-shirts (and printed art) by the way are all about black, white and pantone.
- The logo must be more wide then tall and fix into a box that is 70 pixels high (the current logo is 300x70)
- I'm partial to artClick, but if you have an alternate way of capitalizing the name, go for it. You might want to run it by me first though.
- If you can work .org into the logo, it would be awsome. We had some trouble with the lack of .org in the Photographica t-shirts.
- You are free to add in any kind of design element such as a sketch or something. The logo need not be just to be plain old text.
The "graphica" font: "Franklin Gothic Demi"
The "ars" was: "Franklin Gothic Demi Condensed" and was Pantone 5275
The tagline is plain old verdana
Photographica uses the same font set, but the "photo" is Pantone 465
Participation
The competition is open to all designers, both professional and non-professional. Participation can only take place in a private personal capacity.
Copyright Assignment (aka legal)
Mozi Media Group, LLC will acquire ownership of the winning logo by assignment of copyright, and the winning designer will disclaim any trademarks and without limitation all other rights related to the design (paperwork will be required).
By submitting a logo for entry in the competition, the designer acknowledges that he/she is the person that made the logo and is its rightful owner.
The designer also certifies that the logo does not infringe upon the rights of any third party and that it does not violate any copyright.
The Prize
The winner will get a free, lifetime subscription to artClick, Photographica, and any future Mozi Media Group website as well as as a free t-shirt when the time comes to do a run of artClick shirts. Oh yeah, the winner will also receive $100 USD; just a minor detail :-).
The Judge
I'll be the judge of this contest. I'll be judging based on how the logo fits my vision of this site. The logo should also look damn good on a tshirt, beer glass or coffee mug.
Deadline
5:00pm PST Friday, March 17th 2006.
How to submit
Post it right here on the website! Dont worry about posting the vector file, a JPEG will do just fine.
Note
I might change the legal wording; some lawyer will probably skin me alive for wording as it now exists. The intent is that you cannot take the logo and use it elseware or turn around and try to charge me for its use.
- Don