How to get a Creative Commons licensed Logo designed for free?
Your thoughts? Where would be a good place to get a free, creative commons licensed logo designed?
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Another hobby? I design logos, too, as you can see. (Hint: the fastest way to get one for free is to ask me--I've never received a dime for any of these. It's almost relaxing, like a painter painting. I've produced random radio bits and I've also done logos to keep myself sane. I think.
For example, some of the audio items were done as demos, so I licensed them "No commercial Use"--even though I'd "watermarked" them with "Not for broadcast" in the background..
I used to use Photoshop, but had a hard-drive crash and lost the program with it. A freeware "Gimp 2.0" is very similar to it--almost identical---but you can also do it yourself at http://logoease.com very quickly. If you've got the font on your computer, you may even be able to just bang it right out in a word-processor and use http://zamzar.com to convert it to a gif, jpg, png, whatever. I've used zamzar but haven't tried that conversion yet. Great fonts are available at http://1001freefonts.com. You'll notice I favor the handwriting. Not for yours, though.
If you pick the right font, the right colors and have the right placement, sometimes the text speaks for itself.
Without even looking, based on your description, I get that everything on the site will be licensed under creative commons, but I don't get why the logo needs to be. But putting it on archive.org will guarantee it is. And you'd have a URL for your logo, too, just like I have a URL for this portfolio. Except I put it in just now as a temporary item--it will erase itself from there in 30 days.
This mini-portfolio of mini is licensed like this:
You have selected the Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
This license is permanently located at
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
In the meantime, to keep myself out of trouble, I'll play around with it over the weekend and see what I get. I'm thinking a red "creative, a blue"commons" and a black ".cc," with the cc in a black circle like the cc logo itself.. Expect it to be licensed "Attribution - Commercial - No Derivative Works."
Hey, it was your idea.. So in the spirit of cc, just stick my name somewhere--bury it, I don't care. But it'll be attribution. Watch this space. If I come up with anything good, I'll add it as a comment here.
A brief mini-portfolio is attached. Click it to see it full-size. All of the ones on top were actually used except for 202desk--it hasn't launched yet. You'll notice I stick with red, blue and black. The darker shades are good corporate colors that usually blend well with anything. The ones at bottom were non-winning contest entries done in requested corporate colors.. Reply to this post to contact me.
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1. mirrors.creativecommons.org/google-20061026/
2. creativecommons.org/about/downloads
3. tantek.com/presentations/2007/03/microformats/
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Ask and ye shall receive. I took a very, very short route to this one,
When I realized I'd lost photoshop, I began to look to see if there were any useful online generators that would do the trick. I was going to use logoease.com for this, but I think it came out okay as is, and but it's an approach you can use to re-create it in different colors and styles.
One of the really simple, clean sites I had found was:
http://www.simwebsol.com/ImageTool/Default.aspx
Your "beta" logo took literally ten seconds to design, and can be recreated and/or changed just as easily--just follow the instructions I put on the the following instructions page::
http://www.archive.org/details/opentraining-cc-beta
The Logo is licensed Commercial- Attribution - United States.