A new logo was created for The Devir Kahan Network and cool round stickers of it were ordered to be affixed to my laptop. In this episode of Byte Sized the new logo is officially shown, and the new sticker finds its place on my MacBook.
After much work, it’s finally here! I really like the logo a lot! It will now be the official logo and will begin to appear online on my various sites.
And yes, it is a sideways D and K (my initials) that make up that little dude. The only question is – What do we call him?
Big thanks to Anthony over at thetechzonelive.com for turning my concept for this, into an awesome reality!
As you all should know by now, I love answering your questions. I remember when I had all the questions and how much I just wanted easy answers. Well, this is not to say that I no longer have any questions, but this is to say that I started an ongoing video series called “My Inbox”!
I get many questions through email (or other places that end up in my inbox like YouTube and so on), and the answers to many of them can really benefit the community. That’s why I will be answering a selection of the questions I receive on YouTube for everyone!
Sometimes I will just reply with the answer because I don’t think it needs to be in an episode. Other times I will reply with an answer and say that I will talk more about it in the next episode of “My Inbox”. Other times still, it just may be too much information for an email and I will only be able to talk about it in a video. Whatever the case though, the questions will always be answered!
Questions answered in this episode:
How do I get my hair to look the way it does?
How did I make my old blue logo?
Is it possible to get WicketPixie on Blogger?
How can you customize the WicketPixie theme like I did?
How can you set up dual monitors (with only one VGA port)?
Will I ever talk, and give my opinions about, the news and so on?
I look forward to getting and answering many more questions in the future. The only way I can do that is if you send them, so keep them coming! My email address is mail@devirkahan.com, and My Inbox is always open.
The contest for my new logo is now over. While there can only be one winner, I would like to take the time to thank everyone who submitted a design. It really was incredible for me to see everyone taking part in this contest. It really meant a lot, and I truly appreciate it.
I had dozens of submissions, and I filed them all into a folder which, as time went by, I slowly started sifting through until I narrowed the logos down to a few finalists. It was clear that some submissions were done by professional graphic artists, and some were not. All of them were pretty good, but amateur logos just can’t really compete with those created by professionals. There were a number of really great submissions that I really strongly considered for a while. However, after it was all over, Peter Zujko stood out to me as being the one I wanted as my logo. It is an incredible graphical sketch of my face, and it looks just absolutely awesome. I would highly recommend that you check Peter out over http://youtube.com/766films. He has some really awesome content there, and I’m sure you guys will enjoy it. The problem, was that then Peter dissapeared before the logo was finished. I still needed him to make a number of changes, but a few days went by, the deadline came and went, and no response! That is when I turned to Seva Dorn. He created another really awesome logo for me that you will soon see me using somewhere. Seva is currently an Israeli soldier deployed in Iran. He took his free time to make me a logo, and to know that someone like Seva is out there, saying how he likes watching my videos to relax, is incredibly moving. This means a tremendous amount to me. He was going to be my next choice, had Peter not submitted anything, but even if he had totally lost the contest, I think by submitting his logo for me, and saying what he said, he has done much more. I asked Seva to make the final changes to the logo and he did it no problem. he also altered the entire face to make it look better and more how I wanted it.
This whole thing was crazy, and in the end Peter did reply quickly explaining how he had become too busy to finish it. He was totally cool with the fact that Seva finished up the logo for him. I guess it is Peter and Seva who won? Seva only wanted a shoutout to all those fighting in Iran, and I think he got that. He will also be the one entered in to my TuneUp 2010 contest twice. Peter’s link to his great YouTube channel are above. As to the ThinkGeek codes? Read on!
There were a number of other honorable mentions like, iJ0nathan, who created a really nice logo with my face in it, but was not exactly what I was looking for. Jason Murack created a really nice logo with my initials that I actually am currently using as my iPod wallpaper because I think it goes nicely like that. Jorgen Bendiksen also created a really nice text banner which I look forward to one day using as a banner somewhere on my YouTube channel (if and when I one day became a partner). I can’t mention everyone who submitted, and I think I may have mentioned to many already, but the people who submitted above really worked very hard. They collaborated with me through email. They submitted a few revisions, and I feel that they deserve to be mentioned. Again, though, I would still like to thank everyone for submitting their logos – that in itself means a lot to me.
As Lammar Wilson from http://youtube.com/wilsontech1 said, whenever you have a giveaway or a contest, you piss everyone off except for the winner. I really don’t want that to be the case because so many of you submitted some really nice designs. So, for just this once, everyone will be getting the ThinkGeek code. the code is ‘google’ (without the quotes) and it will take $10 off of a $30 or more order. Sounds like a good deal to me, no? So head on over to http://thinkgeek.com and use it!
Again, a big thank you to everyone that submitted. My inbox at mail@devirkahan.com is always open, and even if you didn’t get a chance to submit into the contest, I would love to take a look at any cool design you make of me. Who know? Maybe I’ll even use it! I look forward to more giveaways and contests in the not-so-distant future. I have some great content and announcements coming in the next few weeks so stay tuned! You think this post was long enough?
If you are a graphic artist then that’s great, because I need a new logo. The one I have now I threw together a year or so ago and no doubt sucks. What I want from one of you is a new, awesome, cool, logo/avatar/icon. I would much like it to have something to do with a cartooned, or graphically created, version of my face too: http://www.flickr.com/photos/devirkahan/4185528715/ (that may not be the best picture so, you can use really anyone that you find of me).
The image will need to be high-res (I’ll scale it down myself for avatars, and icons).
The artwork must be original.
I would love to see a graphically generated version of my face, so if you can incorporate something along the lines of that into the logo that would be excellent (although I’m not saying you have to).
Keep in mind when you make it though that it must work as an avatar, and icon, and a logo, so it can’t be too complex – you know what I mean :)
This contest will close this Friday (12/18/09) at 12:00 am, so get going!
Of course though, I would not expect you to do this for no reward, so here is the deal. Whoever makes this for me will get three things:
A $10 off coupon to ThinkGeek (http://thinkgeek.com) – if you have not heard of them, then go there – now. They have the BEST tech gadgets and gizmos. They have a ton of stuff for photography too!
Publicity. If you have a website, a blog, photo-stream, or any link you want me to promote, I will do that here, on my channel.
