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Designer of UI, Web, Mobile, Graphics and Identities. Also know print design. Love typography and nicely made apps. Working with different startups and can work on smaller or bigger projects. Can code my designs in HTML/CSS, also know @media-queries and practice responsive web design.
A box of sweets for a logo. You'll probably get only bad entries and in the end there will be another OSS software with a bad identity that looks like some programmer made it up (in most cases they do).
My suggestions is that you must know some graphic designers in person, or your local University must have a Visual Communications department. Go ask them if their students would make logo as a part of the course brief. They get a credit on working on an actual client logo, that can be quite a thing when you are still at Uni. Other options is to as you local friendly designer to make it.
Just my opinion on the matter. And I contributed design to a local FOSS community, but they asked nicely and you get feedback and can talk about identity and brand and usage. Here is like a pop quiz and brands don't get designed that way.
A new startup should write a business plan. If nothing else you familiarize with writing about your ideas and products on paper. With that you make a clearer vision of where you are headed and what you want to do. I believe you are thinking about everything everyday and all the time, but if you have to explain it to someone, it can be easily done with a business plan. It also shows you have read through most of the 10 points that potential investors are looking for, so you did your homework.
No one is saying that you should make an ultimate one, its a practice to refine it on a monthly, or semi monthly basis, depending on the pace of your development.
And also a product by itself is great to show around, but the numbers in business plan can also convince a lot of maybe not potential users, but business partners and investors.
I vote for writing it just so you put all your thoughts and plans on paper and doing iterations forward from there, I believe it's useful.
Looks like there are some coders out there that actually know why having good typography is valid and don't just take whatever is out there as is usually the case.
Designer of UI, Web, Mobile, Graphics and Identities. Also know print design. Love typography and nicely made apps. Working with different startups and can work on smaller or bigger projects. Can code my designs in HTML/CSS, also know @media-queries and practice responsive web design.
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