Have to admit – while I’m generally not a big fan of logo design contests – gotta give this guy his props for making me laugh at 4 am while booting around the toobz. Justin Billings, an R/C enthusiast based in Montana, presents a logo design contest for his (fictional) airplane production company.
The rationale…
I want a logo for Big J Aviation, but all of my previous attempts have looked like ass
The method…
Feel free to use any images that you’d like, either photos or graphics (preferably graphics actually), steal them from this site, steal them from other sites, I don’t care, just somebody please make me a logo. If I knew what I wanted I’d design the damn thing myself so let your imaginations run wild.
The design brief…
I really don’t know why I want a logo, since Big J Aviation is just a fictitious company that I dreamed up in this empty head of mine, but Binford Tools was a fictitious company too and look how famous they are. Wanna know why? They may not have had a real tool company, but they had a logo! Well . . . . . . . . . that and that whole Tim Allen TV show thing, but I still think it was the logo.
The budget…
The Prize! Since Big J Aviation’s advertising budget is somewhere in the 7 figure range (after the decimal point of course), I really can’t offer much other than exclusive bragging rights to the winner. Whenever you see the logo that you designed stuck on the side of a Learjet, or a limo, or an old red Chevy van full of toy airplanes, you can swell with pride knowing that you’re the poor sap that wasted so much of your precious free time sitting in front of a computer designing a logo for some freeloading blogger bum that’s too damn lazy and non artistic to sit down and design his own stinking logo. Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, doesn’t it? Oh hell, maybe I’ll mail you a set of stickers if I ever get around to getting them printed up.
Hilarious. Almost cost me a new monitor due to coffee spew. Sadly, it reads just like any ‘design my logo‘ post found every day on CraigsList. And those guys are serious…
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Hey Justin
Thanks for dropping by and once again for the laugh. Bit of an R/C helicopter fan myself albeit it not very good. Still have the big wiffle ball landing legs on her…
Oh come on, grow some sack. I’m worse than “not very good”, hell I downright suck, but I got tired of strapping the training gear on before every flight so I figured what the heck. I gave it a go without them once and never looked back. Now, I’m actually learning how to fly the thing, instead of just wallowing around with an overloaded heli with a way too low CG. I was really surprised how much better my T-Rex flies without the “training balls” as my wife calls them, LOL. So much so was I surprised, that I really can’t understand why anyone would advise anyone else to use them beyond perhaps the first two or three flights to make sure that everything was working properly and that they weren’t hopeless. Maybe someday I can even manage to do something besides hover the thing tail in and right side up.