David, please, listen to me. As far as I know you are not a graphic designer either. Please let a professional handle this. Anyone who is not a graphic designer professionally simply cannot know or select what is a good logo. It's like if you were not a programmer and someone showed you some code and asked if you thought it was good. You have no idea, and it looks like it works, but it actually is full of holes and backdoors because you have no idea what you are looking at. It's the same thing for graphic design, except people think anyone can just look at something and know if it's "good" or not. The reality is that they can't, which is obvious with the people saying some of these logos are "good" when they look like they were designed by middle schoolers for a class assignment. If you want BitBay to look credible, you have to shell out the cash for professional design -- for the logo, for the UI, for the website, everything.
It's 2015 now, and people are accustomed to a certain style and usability in apps and websites. If you can't deliver that (and from what I've seen you can't without outside professional design help), nobody is going to take BitBay seriously. You raised a ton of money via the IPO, you can afford a few hundred dollars for some professional design work.
Hey there, I agree with what you are saying also. However keeping the community engaged is also nice. We will award winners regardless of if the logo gets used or not. With that said, if you know any professional designers im more than happy to meet with them. Youve gotta realize, I'm on a brutal deadline now. So I've got very limited time to manage every minor project. If im not coding, I'm eating networking or sleeping. We've got a dev fund and some BitBay also I'm ok with paying out of pocket a bit too. So management/secure a good project manager is the bigger challenge than actually just shelling out coins.
Actually, I used to do professional design from editing to commercials and graphics. But of course time is a concern. A good project manager is needed. And just because there are funds, budgeting is critical. There is no right answer to correct budgeting. It takes someone with excellent foresight and business acumen to budget properly.
So yeah, im looking for a supercoder, project manager and some people to step up to do these engaging community bounties. Just relax, let everyone enjoy the competition. We will pick winners regardless of if the logo gets used or not. We can always change the logo and if anyone knows a pro designer, I'm more than happy to look at his resume/work etc.
Everyone knows my original intention was to be project manager. However now, I've got many different things to work on in the code and it will be months before i can relax. I can give as much time as possible to work on project management but it comes second to coding.
