Looking for New professional logo.Funds Escrowed [ENDED]

[MaliceRed]

Fellow designers, please do not join contests like this, we deserve healthy wages and respect! Don't be tricked by promises of "Exposure", because I'm sure you can't pay bills with "Exposure".

Thing is that if we don't join this contest, someone else will and they will receive the bounty.
In order for your idea to work, every single designer would have to agree not to join these contests.

I don't think that would happen, but I'd like to see it do.

I understand your reasoning behind this.

"If you don't get the table scraps someone will".
But you see, if people are aware of the situation, and walk away from this, then all that's left over are the designers who do not take this trade seriously. And when that happens, these sort of contests will start to dwindle. Because of the extreme poor quality of work that would be submitted.

It balances out eventually but it requires awareness of what joining these contests do to digital art work.

I don't expect you to walk away, but only want people to consider.. Is it really worth it? Fighting tooth and nail for $20 for a company to make tons of profit off of? To spend your time and effort to not be even guaranteed that small pittance of money.

Most of these contest hosts say that everyone wins; Exposure, Experience, Building portfolios

This is mostly adressing anyone who would justify participating in these contests, and not specifically to you SwingFirst

Exposure: You show that you don't respect your work enough to be paid a real wage or commission. That you're so desperate for money, that you're willing to work in conditions that any other self respecting artist would cringe at. These are good things to expose. They are very bad things, that real clients who respect digital art would turn away from in a heart beat.

Experience: The experience that is promised, is not healthy healthy is experience. The only experience that a designer could get from this, is the experience of being disrespected. Competing for table scraps. These extremely toxic experiences to have. The sort of experience that a designer should have, is the experience of drafting, client briefs, and healthy design principles. You will none of this, because you are literally trying to dump out as many submissions as you can. In what way is that healthy?

Building Portfolio: Building portfolio is extremely important, and any designer needs to do this if they want to find potential work. However, there are so many other ways to build up a portfolio. Other healthy ways. Rather than competing with others for a wage, why not offer a temporary reduced rate to a few clients, on your own terms? Or perhaps, build a portfolio up from taking courses, or donating to a non-profit organization? Any way that you can build a portfolio, without destroying the very trade that you're building up your portfolio to join in? It doesn't make sense.

And this is all under the guise of just one person will be getting compensated (poorly) out of everyone who joins.

If more and more designers become aware of what the consequences of joining these contests are, the more reluctant these designers will be for the next 0.1 BTC contest. If that happens, the less quality work will be submitted, and the less we'll see of these sort of contests.

In turn, we'll start seeing companies and startups approach designers with real commissions and real wages.

But one thing is for sure, it all starts in these threads, raising awareness and coming together as a community of designers, rather that viewing each other as enemies or rivals.

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[Sarahiko]

I don`t have quarrels with this kind of competition but one thing that really bothers me is the quality of the winning logo take for example the altbitex logo clearly their are better designs than that.

[BitcoinStriker]

I want to see who won 

[BikiniDice]

This contest has officially ended. And the winner is SwingFirst, Please contact us via pm for details

Another entry of mine.
https://i.imgur.com/XtJP7fA.png
If OP (or anyone else for that matter) wants to work with me, contact me!

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I've received a request from OP to help escrow the funds for this logo contest.

Prize funds will be held in the following address:  13kCywMYB9m4yLP3USmD3WzV8FDiK8WjGP

Funds will be released to the winner at the end of the contest.

Any questions feel free to PM me to ask.

Escrow service by master-P: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=932294

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Escrow, SwingFirst won this contest. Wait for my go signal before releasing the funds. Thank you. Once deal is done, A nice tip will be sent too  

Hidden Surprise for everyone who participated

I know there has been some specualtions and discussions regarding designers and their works. I have high respects for this graphic designers. This kind of skills are not easily learned from school.
And for the time and effort that you exerted, Each users who submitted their piece will get 0.05 BTC each. (Just once per person)

Additional 0.01 for user Redones for the effort and time he put into this.

Please PM me with the BTC address you'd like to receive your bonus, and include the link to your submission.

Thank you for everyone and keep it cool  

[BitcoinStriker]

This contest has officially ended. And the winner is SwingFirst, Please contact us via pm for details

Another entry of mine.
https://i.imgur.com/XtJP7fA.png
If OP (or anyone else for that matter) wants to work with me, contact me!

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I've received a request from OP to help escrow the funds for this logo contest.

Prize funds will be held in the following address:  13kCywMYB9m4yLP3USmD3WzV8FDiK8WjGP

Funds will be released to the winner at the end of the contest.

Any questions feel free to PM me to ask.

Escrow service by master-P: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=932294

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Escrow, SwingFirst won this contest. Wait for my go signal before releasing the funds. Thank you. Once deal is done, A nice tip will be sent too  

Hidden Surprise for everyone who participated

I know there has been some specualtions and discussions regarding designers and their works. I have high respects for this graphic designers. This kind of skills are not easily learned from school.
And for the time and effort that you exerted, Each users who submitted their piece will get 0.05 BTC each. (Just once per person)

Additional 0.01 for user Redones for the effort and time he put into this.

Please PM me with the BTC address you'd like to receive your bonus, and include the link to your submission.

Thank you for everyone and keep it cool  

Congrats SwingFirst! Great design

PM'd you OP for the bonus, thanks!

[Falconer]

This contest has officially ended. And the winner is SwingFirst, Please contact us via pm for details

Another entry of mine.
https://i.imgur.com/XtJP7fA.png
If OP (or anyone else for that matter) wants to work with me, contact me!

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Hash: SHA512

I've received a request from OP to help escrow the funds for this logo contest.

Prize funds will be held in the following address:  13kCywMYB9m4yLP3USmD3WzV8FDiK8WjGP

Funds will be released to the winner at the end of the contest.

Any questions feel free to PM me to ask.

Escrow service by master-P: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=932294

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Escrow, SwingFirst won this contest. Wait for my go signal before releasing the funds. Thank you. Once deal is done, A nice tip will be sent too 

Hidden Surprise for everyone who participated

I know there has been some specualtions and discussions regarding designers and their works. I have high respects for this graphic designers. This kind of skills are not easily learned from school.
And for the time and effort that you exerted, Each users who submitted their piece will get 0.05 BTC each. (Just once per person)

Additional 0.01 for user Redones for the effort and time he put into this.

Please PM me with the BTC address you'd like to receive your bonus, and include the link to your submission.

Thank you for everyone and keep it cool 

congrats swingfirst, nice logo. thanks bikinidice for the contest, its my pleasure to cooperated with you. Hope your business will get success 

[mrfoofoo]

congrats swingfirst, good luck for your project.

[SwingFirst]

Yay I won!
The .zip has been sent to OP.
This is the address for payment: 1PECVY4hVGyBQzGZ2iv24uqFu8HcRg3nsM

congrats swingfirst, good luck for your project.

Thank you mrfoofoo!

[master-P]

OP please send me a PM confirming the details once I can release the funds to the winner.

[BikiniDice]

OP please send me a PM confirming the details once I can release the funds to the winner.

Pm sent.. Tip also sent. Thanks.

[BikiniDice]

Bonuses are also sent to
Sarahiko
Bitcoinstriker
Falconer

https://blockchain.info/tx/77d0f45a19c85789d18c46533341298db11028d61ace168abf69bc6d3fe953be

[master-P]

Yay I won!
The .zip has been sent to OP.
This is the address for payment: 1PECVY4hVGyBQzGZ2iv24uqFu8HcRg3nsM

congrats swingfirst, good luck for your project.

Thank you mrfoofoo!

Prize funds sent to winner: https://blockchain.info/tx/a8ec3bc619e7c340926d2126459a0947ad579ac8c410eec34ce771921c4befd2

Thanks

[SwingFirst]

Prize funds sent to winner: https://blockchain.info/tx/a8ec3bc619e7c340926d2126459a0947ad579ac8c410eec34ce771921c4befd2

Thanks

Left some trust for you and BikiniDice! 

[BitcoinStriker]

Bonuses are also sent to
Sarahiko
Bitcoinstriker
Falconer

https://blockchain.info/tx/77d0f45a19c85789d18c46533341298db11028d61ace168abf69bc6d3fe953be

Thanks!

[Redones]

congrats swingfirst 
and Good luck for the project BIKINIDICE
PM sended.Thank you.

[BikiniDice]

congrats swingfirst 
and Good luck for the project BIKINIDICE
PM sended.Thank you.

Bonus Sent. Thanks
https://blockchain.info/tx/42838799bc7dda20865a73104516555bd621d1b30a6a4fbc27711048e0b8a8fd