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Speaking of Valley City logo contest |
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 |
Letter from Judy Stahl
Valley City, N.D.
The article about the Valley City logo contest by Dennis Stillings in the Friday, April 25, issue of the Times-Record showed that it was handled in a haphazard and unfair manner. I'm glad to see that he did a bit of research to determine what had happened.
Like Stilling's wife I also submitted my entry according to the rules and by the deadline. This was more than a year ago. As I remember, a ballot was supposed to be printed in the Times-Record after that with the entries published so that the public could vote to choose the logo. Perhaps I missed something, but I never saw a ballot published = or was it hiding in the back pages of the paper? I vaguely recall that there was a short blurb about the logo contest being extended, though. I concluded that perhaps there were not enough entries yet. And as time went on, I had all but forgotten about it. Apparently the logo was chosen and was even being used on city letterheads with the contest being a rather secret affair and with little or no final public announcement.
I agree with Stillings that a logo should have had the input of a professional as I found out that it was a lot more difficult to do than I had expected. It had to put forth a positive image for Valley City and be as simple as possible so that it could be made small for an embroidered version or a letterhead.
It would have been nice if it could have been as simple as the Target logo, a red dot inside a red circle, but to symbolize Valley City, it would have been difficult to do without lettering and a simple recognizable symbol as well.
Those who entered spent a fair amount of time and effort on their designs and deserved not to have the contest shoved under the rug.
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