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Originally Posted by SayWhut
Typically, if he hired one designer, he would only have to pick from just one design, maybe two if he is lucky.
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bingo. when you hire a designer, you look at their portfolio to see what they are capable of and what their range of styles are - if you really like something in their portfolio and want something similar, then it's easy, you tell the designer you want something similar, you may suggest colors,fonts, maybe a theme and they go off and do it. they come back, and you get a revision or two. Try at that point telling a designer, 'ya know, i'm not thrilled with the way this turned out, let's try another concept' - most designers will not be happy. Some won't do an entirely new concept.
I don't want that, I don't want something that looks like something else in their portfolio, I am hiring them for their creativity, after an ICQ conversation, they should go and work out some very rough concepts.
Contest like this should produce a variety of styles/themes - maybe somebody will do a minimalistic Web 2.0 type idea, maybe somebody else will do a pink frilly girly theme, maybe somebody else does something grunge style, or glamour style, or teeny bopperish -
I definitely have no pre-conceived ideas of what style will win the contest. And Destiny herself is going to have a large say in which design she wants.
anyway, people who put down GFY all the time are idiots, a lot of designers, some i've never seen before, have downloaded the zip file and will work out a design hopefully. I'll get a great design out of this, one or two designers will get a well paid gig out of it, and the other designers will get some more exposure for their businesses. win/win/win.