RE: seeking graphic

Marsha:

The logo you use is the FIRST link people will have to the site.  It needs
to be well thought out with a great deal of trial and error and incorporate
the goal(s) of the charity.  If it was my site, I would wait on EVERYTHING
else except planning and finish the logo first.  It is a serious mistake to
change a logo after you get one set up and it is a SERIOUS mistake to create
the WRONG logo.  The logo represents EVERYTHING.  Take your time and do it
right.  Do not take the same thing someone else uses unless you grab the
basic idea like a globe (AT&T) and tweak it.

If you go to http://ecoaccess.org/  you will see a  logo I designed that
took considerable thought, trials and LOTS of time.  The site is a point of
reference (free information to worldwide environmental education) for the
world wide environmental movement.  It is going to act as a gigantic world
wide environmental data base.

I had considerable difficulty in setting the tone and finally came up with a
green (grass, trees, etc.), the globe (world wide), in the hole of the key
(representing providing access to the data), and the name of the
organization (using the letter E as the base key) that tied everything
together.  And after all of that, the organization made me use what I felt
was green shading that was too dark.

Look at samples other groups have done, Sierra Club
http://www.sierraclub.org (Redwood or Sequoia),  World Wildlife Fund
http://www.wwf.org/ (Panda) yet it is very simple as it is only black ink on
a white background.  The logo says most or all of what the organization
does.

If you have no artist skill you can use Adobe Photoshop and to discover same
and learn.  The end product will end up being SIGNIFICANTLY better and you
will fell VERY proud of yourself when you are done.  Both you and the group
already have an idea.  Use that idea as a base.

Best of luck.

Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org]On
Behalf Of Marsha
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 11:17 AM
To: hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
Subject: seeking graphic


I am assisting an individual who is providing a Lipstream powered site for
the
use of the blind (primarily) and sighted individuals.

The site is a non-profit but does have a limited budget for graphics.  What
the
site owner would like, is something reflective of world population and
disability status.

Her dream graphic would be something like one of the children of various
nationalities, holding hands around the Earth.  I've seen a graphic like
this
before and would bet my bottom dollar that it is copyrighted.

Does anyone know where I might find the owner to see how much they'd
charge to license it for a non-profit website?

Or does anyone know where I could find something similar in clip art
collections?  I've got a couple hundred thousand pieces of clip art I've
purchased but nothing remotely like this.

I'm not enough of an artist to come up with something similar on my own,
although we may, at some point, be looking for someone with the talent to
do an original graphic of able and disabled multinational children standing
on
the Earth.

TIA
Marsha Graham
http://www.silverowldesign.com

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