So at our last Worth A Dam meeting there was discussion that we needed a logo, for letter head, visibility, general recognition factor. Maybe we should bite the bullet and pay someone to work on it for us? It probably wouldn’t cost that much. I wasn’t ready to give up Worth A Dam dollars for a logo. Because of our good luck with finding website help, I suggested we run another Craig’s list ad for an unpaid gig.
Once again, I was inundated with kind responses. Including some Fine Art students who wanted to help, a web and graphic artist who loved beavers, and a very delightful, professioinal artist in San Francisco. (And once again my ad was tagged as “inappropriate” and removed, I assume because it had the word “beavers” in it.)
Kiriko Moth: The Rats of NIMH
Kiriko Moth is a gifted artist working hard to turn her passion into a living, and judicially chooses on rare occasion to do Pro Bono work for a worthy nonprofit. She was interested in developing a graphic for us based on our ideas and was good at asking the right questions. We experimented with an adaption of the tail-up drawing on our postcard, but eventually wanted something more symbolic. I asked about incorporating a “key” in some way, to emphasize the keystone species aspect. She thought this might be a little too abstract for our audience, but we were all blown away with what she was able to develop.
Suffice it to say it is a logo that no other organization in the world could possibly have. It is truly uniquely Worth A Dam, and I’m very pleased with it. We still have hue and lettering to settle on, and once that’s done I will happily display it for your viewing pleasure. In the course of this project, I approached Kiriko about illustrating the children’s Keystone Species book we are planning. Beaver friend Penny Weigand has expressed an interest in publishing it with the charm bracelet and Kiriko is very interested in providing artwork. That work would even pay.
Moral of the story: Ask for what you want. Sometimes it works.
