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Monica ([personal profile] cellio) wrote2019-10-27 03:24 pm

help needed: graphic design for GoFundMe

(Solved; see note at end.)

Hello Internet friends!

In response to many suggestions and offers to contribute, I started to set up a GoFundMe page to collect donations for legal fees in my dispute with Stack Overflow. And I got blocked on...upload a photo or video.

I don't think a photo of me is the best thing to put there. Also, I'm not really all that photogenic, and women online tend to have problems in this area anyway. What I'd really like is to create some combination of my avatar (the one on this post, which I unfortunately only have in a small size), the Stack Overflow logo, and the moderator diamond. I have PNGs for these elements.

I have neither a great sense of graphic design nor the skills and tools to make something reasonable happen. I also don't know if this is actually a good idea or I should do something different. GoFundMe wants at least 600x400px.

If you have suggestions for what to use for this graphic representation of my campaign, please comment. If you can offer help in actually making a graphic for me, please give me a way to contact you (or contact me if you already know how).

Thanks!

Update: It has been pointed out to me that using the Stack Overflow logo, fitting as it would be, could be a trademark violation. So I need another idea.

Update 2: A kind person sent me a larger, cleaned-up version of my gravatar and I'm using that without further embellishment. Thanks all for the help!

(Anonymous) 2019-10-27 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not too adept at making graphics, but I can give it a go... when I get back home from work today. I suggest something like this: a composite of your avatar, the diamond and the SE logo (or just the square dialog bubble part of it) arranged from left to right in a staggered manner: your avatar in the top left, the SE image in bottom right with a little overlap between the two; the diamond would be placed in the overlap. Suggesting a tug-of-war.

If you think it could work I'll email you something later today.

Silvio