Hey designers! Get involved with this Public Relations Exercise...

*e-mails to band*

*waits*

Can be paint, can be graphics, anything really. It'd be a massive help if it could be e-mailed to us though. If anyone has any questions at all e-mail the address above or send us a message through myfacespace.

so anywhere you can save *us* time, please try and do so

p.s.
this shud b in the actual shop as Cargo Distributes all Field Release! Our album isn't in our own home town, but is stocked in Oxford St, LDN!

So if you live in LDN, you might see ur own work in HMV! *puts on sunglasses*

'Leicester-based punk five-piece Public Relations Exercise don't want to pay for design work and don't know any decent designers so they are getting their fans to do it for free'

It really pisses me off when bands run these 'competitions'

If an unemployed/young designer wants to do it for free and get a piece of their work used in a commercial market place (which is just about the most impressive thing you can add to a portfolio) and the band get good quality CD artwork for free, then everybody wins, surely?

So what's your problem with that?

Jeez, I swear the people on this board can find a reason to complain about just about anything.

people act annoyed by something that they care very little about!

p.s.
Digital Artwork: 300dpi minimum

as a designer myself I'm constantly asked to do freebies, which I routinely turn down because doing design work is how I earn my living. If you want it done, pay for it.

I don't like to see people trying to take the piss.

Plus I think it takes the piss out of the fans too. Not as much as those 'hey fans make us our music video' comps, because that takes a fuck of a lot more effort than a piece of artwork

i'm just saying don't mask something as a competition just because you don't want to pay for design work.

...being in a band is expensive - paying for petrol, recording, releasing, touring and all the other crap. We, nor our label can afford to put a lot into paying for a designer so we opted to try this approach. As someone mentioned earlier, it could be a good opportunity for someone. An artist, young designer might jump at the the chance to have their work pressed and put on the front of a record. I would.

Also lets not forget, free album and t-shirt! ;-)

if you never get paid.

Anyway ignore me. I hope you get a nice record sleeve :)

.....bet you like to get in the guest list for venues, though.

simple answer: don't enter the competition then if you don't want to.

there was a competition on radio 1 the other day where I actually had to text in to win something I didn't want. I was so huffy I wrote all about it on a forum.

god P.R.E., radio 1, all of these magazines, Blue Peter....they've all got some front haven't they?

We can't afford to pay for it! We're still paying for our Studio time (last December) for the album! Not long finished paying for our Van! And lets not forget to mention paying for the pressing of the singles! And, hopefully, if we have any money left a bit of PR for the single also!

We're on a Indie label that's not long getting on it's feet! So please don't publicly condemn us for not throwing money into our artwork

But, just so you know, we ARE paying a friend to help us out with the video!

You make us sound like we're fleecing people! Seriously we barely cover diesel for shows and this is purely non-profit in just about every facet of the band!

And we are not moaning/looking for sympathy! These are merely the facts of being in a independent band

oh. sorry. oops.

as a designer MYself I do a combination of paid work and freebies. The freebies I do generally for bands that I rate, and usually in return for something like a free t-shirt or guestlist spots or whatever. I like getting involved with the creativity of bands that I rate in this way.

The good thing about this competition is that if you don't like it, you don't have to enter it - it doesn't seem like a scam to me, it seems a bit like a physical embracing of the Web 2.0 world where every fucker (eg. myself) has an opinion and idea and concept about everything and is happy to share it.

do you have a logo we can download?

LOLZ... Id like to bust that little bubble right away.

but yeah, things like this are great for designers to get their work out there. fact.

Well, I get paid OK.