Folks, I am working on my mobile app with the help of Tanya Ruttenberg at Blue Door Apps and Holly Hamper at SmartyPantsMobileApps.com . And what do we need first and foremost?
A logo!
A great, fun, easy-to-read logo that works on everything from the top of this blog, to a bumper sticker, to a tiny icon on a crowded mobile phone screen. ESPECIALLY as a tiny icon on a crowded mobile phone screen. Look at the apps on your phone. Small, small, small. Yet bold!
So that’s the contest: Please design our logo. It would be such a help! The winner gets $100 and bragging rights as the designer of the first, official Free-Range Kids logo.
Mail your entries to: Heylenore3@gmail.com .
Deadline: 8 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday, April 25.
And thanks! – L
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Sadly I lack design skills. But in looking for how artist convey independence, and freedom, and so forth I found one cartoonist with a few entries. I found a cartoon that really captured a lot of the difficulty we have in subduing people’s fears.
http://ninapaley.com/mimiandeunice/2010/11/08/whats-right/
If I had any sort of design skill whatsoever, I would come up with something to communicate what instantly sprang to mind: an image based on a safety sign (black on yellow), with silhouetted kids doing something like climbing/jumping for joy. Unfortunately, I have no design skills whatsoever, so it will remain in my head 😉
@JLM- We have a sign like that- yellow with black trim that says Beware of Children.
It shows kids playing (but they have little devil ears!) and it hangs proudly on our back fence.
At this time I am ready to do my breakfast, once having my
breakfast coming yet again to read further news.
Was thinking just a bold “FRK” type thing but a google search reveals those letters in that order to be anything from a Chech hockey player’s last name to an island airport designation in the Indian Ocean.
how about a girl climbing a tree to try to catch a chicken perched up in the tree?
Stay clear of the chickens, please.
Washinton Post (and other) comment boards have many users who just can’t seem to get past the “Why would I want to raise my kids like poultry?” thing.
It makes them completely oblivious to the very real problems this cause is trying to fix. My response to them has been:
“Free Range Kids” is just a label, what is important are the principles behind it. “The United States of America” is just a label, what is important are the principles behind it.
If I had the design chops for this (I knit, I don’t draw). I would do an untied apron with the strings flapping in the wind with “free” on the front of it.
They tell American citizen to stay strong and not to allow terrorist to win by creating fear and stopping us from doing the things we love. So we are so suppose allow the dysfunctional people in this country to win by creating fear and stopping our children from experiencing the things they love. Independence and freedom to learn and grow by interacting in a world without interference from the government. Sounds like a double standard to me
“Free Range Strong”
HOME HOME ON THE RANGE
WHERE THE KIDS AND THE FAMILY PETS PLAY
WHERE ALWAYS IS HEARD
LET’S GO OUT AND HAVE FUN
WE DON’T CARE IF ITS CLOUDY ALL DAY
Not sure if the original song is still under copyright.
or
TIRED, HUNGRY AND DIRTY……YEP FREE RANGE KID.
Awhile back there was a tv commercial for Chevy trucks. Salesman and buyer looking at a new truck in the showroom. Buyer was hesitating, leaves and comes back. Throws a bucket of mud on the truck, and says, “I’ll take it.”
Can see an ad where a parent has to throw a bucket of mud on their kid, “Yep, this one’s mine.”
Will you PLEASE, PLEASE make yard signs too??? I let my 10 yo play out front alone and with friends. A certain neighbor mom likes to rush over to make sure they’re “being watched” IN THE FRONT YARD!!!! Ugh.