"Where great audiences and artists
come together."

Graphic Artist for CIYH and ListeningRoomNetwork.com

Questions?Email Fran

We'd like help from someone who can design art from scratch, to help us create logos, badges, and banners for our growing community.

Logos

PrivateRecitals.com - this site hasn't launched yet, but will focus on promoting house concerts for classical music. We are looking for better colors, leaning toward wood grain and scriptish fonts that fit the look and feel of Classical Music and the audience that supports it. The whole site will need to be updated, and we will certainly lose the black background, favoring something light, like a light yellow or beige.

Banners

ConcertsInYourHome.com/ListeningRoomNetwork.com - we'd like to create a few banners (possibly using our existing "chair graphic" - see link below) that would allow our members to promote us on their sites as "proud member of ConcertsInYourHome.com" etc.
Here are examples of our current banners.

Badges

ListeningRoomNetwork.com - we'd like to create incentives for music fans to show off to their friends and our community, displaying how active they are in attending shows. For example, for someone who attends 3 house concerts in one weekend, we could create a "hat trick" badge (it's a hockey term for 3 goals in a game). Once one of our members has attended 3 shows in a weekend, we place that badge on their profile. We'll eventually create dozens of badges, like "attended concerts in 10 different states" or "attended every show at a house concert series" etc.

Each badge will need a name and a fun, recognizable graphic representation. The hat trick badge would obviously have some sort of hat - you get the idea.

Squidoo.com uses the "merit badge" idea extensively, calling them "trophies", though I don't really like the look of theirs.

Your Background

• You don't need to be a web-designer, but knowledge of it would be helpful. For example - knowing which fonts and colors replicate most easily on web pages, etc.
• Illustration - we don't need our stuff to be hand-drawn, but certainly it's a skill that would open up our options.
• Adaptable - if you regularly tell clients "that's not the way I do things", we probably aren't a good fit.
• Dependable - if you say something can get done, and done well, by a certain date, we expect you to deliver. If you can't commit to any reasonable deadlines, we can't work with you.

The Money

We are looking for a graphic artist/illustrator that we can make famous within our community. If you believe in our cause (to grow a community of talented artists, listening room venues, and die-hard fans), and would be more interested in connecting with this community (with your designs) than a respectable paycheck, you might be a good fit for this ongoing project.

Could this turn into a paying gig? Possibly, but it's best to assume no.
Will you get clients from this? Possibly, and we'll make our best effort to make that happen.

Getting the Gig

If you get us a rough draft of one or several of the ideas above (a Logo, Banner, or badge,) and we love it, it could save us a lot of interviewing time. We will not use your design without permission.

Otherwise, it'll be a slow drawn out process of looking at tons of websites, where we try to predict who will be the most motivated, most talented, best fit for this interesting work. We'd prefer to be inspired by a great design from friendly professional person. Thanks!