Bluehouse Skis Graphic Design Contest

[meatdrink9]

Personally I'd like to see a run of bros with some of md9's illustration work. I think that might also appeal to a younger crowd. Take a look at his conveyor portfolio and check out the london institute illustrations etc...

Everything on that site from an illustration perspective is quite a few years old and also pretty tame given it was for ad work. I've started doing paintings on all sorts of different materials (glass, steal, beat-up old boards, etc...) using a variety of twisted themes and characters. As soon as I wrap up a few more of them I'll be building an illustration specific portfolio site and will post the stuff. Any mags that have been to my house recently have seen portions of the work. It would be pretty ridiculous (in a good way) on a pair of skis.

[Dickeymotto]

Everything on that site from an illustration perspective is quite a few years old and also pretty tame given it was for ad work. I've started doing paintings on all sorts of different materials (glass, steal, beat-up old boards, etc...) using a variety of twisted themes and characters. As soon as I wrap up a few more of them I'll be building an illustration specific portfolio site and will post the stuff. Any mags that have been to my house recently have seen portions of the work. It would be pretty ridiculous (in a good way) on a pair of skis.

Yes, the art in your house kicks ass

[powstash]

Interesting thread movement. I know I shouldn't do this but I suppose in my own defense....

It's not. They're just pandering to us in an not so novel way. I love it when companies con their customers into doing free work for them. Sure beats paying a graphic designer. Yay Bluehouse. Yer our best buddies. You care about us. Why not just make kick ass skis that we'll want to buy rather than puking up marketing 101 pretending to be one of us? Just sayin'...

You're right it's not a maggot company. Never was, never intended to be. I wasn't trying to get that sort of connection made and wasn't asked by anyone in the company to post this. Perhaps I should use words like "they" and "them" rather than "we" or "us". Perhaps I need to go back to the think tank and come up with something remarkable enough that someone will post it here on their own ambition without an agenda.

It's a pretty feeble stab at something that's already been done. Seems to be working though as it has people thinking that Bluehouse is a "maggot" company when in reality it's a company that hired a maggot to do their marketing.

If PMGear had hired me would your response had been the same? Just sayin....

Is the design contest completely original? No. But then again, did (insert your favorite non-indie ski company) ask you for your $.02 when they wanted to design, shape and produce thier last ski? Of course they didn't cause they've got it all figured out on their own unlike a small indie company of a few guys from Utah or perhaps they didn't ring you up cause they could give a shat about you at the end of the day.

Early last summer I was asked by one of the founders for some advice. Since he was a friend I gave some advice. A couple months later they asked me to be on their advisory board. I told them that advisory boards were for old guys with a lot more money than me and that I wanted to be part of the company to see if I could help it grow.

They couldn't "hire" me as they are tossing all the money back into it for next years skis but I didn't care too much. Figured it'd be a fun gig in that childhood ski dream sort of way and if they splash me with a couple pairs of skis and a few Franklin's at the end of the season we'd call it even.

There is a point where doing work for a few pairs of skis is far more of an inconvenience than a thrill and to some extent devalues your work, but I am digressing...

What about Marketing for a few pairs of skis? Is my value dropping like the US dollar? Trust me, I know what the value of my time is but it's not always measured in dollars.

hugs and kisses...

[SiSt]

Bump for voting machines.

And if anyone has a design they´d like to see, but can´t be bothered to do themselves. Let me know, I´ll try and hack something together. It´s fun, and the prospect of two pairs of skis seems to be really motivating.

[SiSt]

Bump for ideas?

[SiSt]

Bump because it´s just eleven days left of the comp.

[Bluehouse]

I wanted to jump on here and say thanks for the support. Our whole thought throughout this process is to make skis that people actually want to ski. We have taken a lot of feedback from riders here as well as on the hill and in emails and phone calls and have put those recommendations back into our skis.

The design contest is one more step in hopefully making something that people want. We have narrowed down the designs from over 130 submissions to the top 20. We reset the votes and opened it up for one more week of voting so check it out.

www.bluehouseskis.com

-Adam