Designer Meetup » print http://designermeetup.com Your Guide To All Things Design Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:44:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Graphic Design Poster Shows http://designermeetup.com/graphic-design-poster-shows http://designermeetup.com/graphic-design-poster-shows#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 16:14:49 +0000 admin http://designermeetup.com/?p=185 Continue reading →]]> Graphic design poster shows are a great way to get one’s work out into the world and to earn accolades and prizes. The HOW Poster Design Awards are an especially great contest to enter your work in because there are no categories. Thus, it is open to all styles and all levels of experience. Thus, it is one of the most inclusive graphic design poster shows available to a designer. To learn more about this contest and how it works, keep reading!

The deadline to submit to this contest is December 1st. The HOW Poster Design Awards accept all poster designs: everything from work that was made for your work or for you and your friends is acceptable.
The prizes for this contest are diverse and well worth the time it takes to enter. Ten winners of the contest will be featured on the HOW website. These winners not only receive $150 worth of HOW books and a year long subscription to the magazine, but they also earn bragging rights and a graphic they can post on any website. This graphic announces that you won the HOW Poster Design Award. What more could you want when it comes to graphic design, contests, and graphic design poster shows?

To enter, people need to submit their entries online at the HOW website. The files uploaded should not exceed 500KB or heights and widths larger than 800 pixels. The file’s format should be JPEG. The work submitted to the HOW Poster Design Awards should have been created between July 1st, 2007 and December 1st, 2008. If you are unable to submit work by December 1st, you can submit up until December 15th, 2008, but you will have to pay a late fee of $10 per entry. After December 15th, 2008, no other entries will be accepted for consideration.

You may pay the submission fee by credit card or by using a check. If you are going to pay the fee with a check, the payment must be postmarked by December 15, 2008. The checks should be US funds from a US bank and should be made payable to HOW Poster Design Awards. Entries without payment will not be considered and will be disqualified. When the credit cards are charged, the charge will appear on the statement as F+W Contest. If a check bounces or a credit card is declines, a $10 fee will be charged. Checks should be mailed to:

HOW Poster Design Awards
4700 East Galbraith Road
Cincinnati, OH 45236 USA

If you win the HOW Poster Design Awards, you are agreeing to allow HOW the right to reproduce your work on the HOW website and in other HOW-related digital and printed materials. The entries should all be original and should be the property of the entrant. In no way shape or form is HOW liable for copyright infringement or disputes about ownership of the submitted images.

The winners of the HOW Poster Design Awards will be announced and notified by March 2009. If there any questions about the contest that are not listed above, people can email HOW at HOW-competition@fwpubs.com.

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]]> http://designermeetup.com/graphic-design-poster-shows/feed 0 Some Important facts of a Logo Design http://designermeetup.com/some-important-facts-of-a-logo-design http://designermeetup.com/some-important-facts-of-a-logo-design#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:22:16 +0000 Jessica http://designermeetup.com/?p=526 Continue reading →]]>

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by Jack Johnson

A logo refers to a pictorial illustration of an organization. A logo is a graphical symbol that reflects the nature, vision or core activities of an enterprise. Entrepreneurs use this graphic symbol to promote the company’s products and services. It carries the brand identity of an organization. They use their trademark not only on their products but also on the rest of the corporate literature. It distinguishes a company’s product or services from the competitor’s products or services. A designer should consider a few aspects that are essential while designing a quintessential logo. While designing a logo a designer should keep a few points in mind. The main purpose of an attractive trademark is to leave a deep and positive impression of the company’s image in the mind of a potential customer. Therefore, you should create few essential features of a logo like design, color or size beautifully. A designer should avoid using designs copiously. A person can use many types of designs in creating a logo. One can use graphics in a logo. A trademark can also be text based or include initial letters of the company’s name. A designer can also use animation in the logo. However, among all these designs one should create a logo that is simple in appearance. A simple design makes a logo more comprehensible and lucid for a viewer. A potential customer retains the name of a company for a longer time. A company uses its name in a logo so that the first thing a customer grasps is its name. A designer should select the color of a company carefully. The shade should be attractive for a viewer. You should avoid using very bright colors that are blinding in appearance. One should use those shades that are pleasing to a human eye. During the printing of a logo on any corporate literature, the use of shade should not hamper the quality of the trademark. The shade should also reflect the nature of the business dealt by an organization. The size of the logo should not be very large so that it becomes problematic while printing. You should not keep a very small size that becomes incomprehensible when printed. A designer should keep a standard size of a logo. If you want to create a logo for your company there are many logo designs available on the Internet. You can also get numerous ideas to design a logo in an innovative and creative manner.

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