I never win contests. Randomness seems to favor not me. However, I finally broke that streak by winning a logo contest for a company I buy hosting services from. They wanted a small ad, and we could enter up to three. I entered these…

I won and got a gift certificate to an online store where I was able to get myself a digital picture frame which should be here any day now. I’m looking forward to it. I can upload pictures into it (a nice wooden traditional looking frame) and have it rotate through them on my desk. I wouldn’t have dropped the cash on it if it’d come out of my regular few dollars, but this seemed like a good excuse.

Even cooler, I was asked to do further creative work for them. It’s not a final version yet, but here’s a larger version of an ad I was working on tonight…

One of these days I’m going to get off my butt and get back into freehand drawing so I can do more logo work. I miss the drawing I did in high school… I get ideas in my head, but sometimes have trouble translating them like I feel I should be able to. Web sites have been a good compromise, because I usually already have the logo as a starting point, and I build off of that. I’d like to be able to bring more of what’s in my brain out into the world though. (Scary thought as that is.)