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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Prairiefest names winner of logo contest
By CHRIS ROBINETTE
Traveler Correspondent
Arkansas City resident Glenn Davis is the winner of this year's PrairieFest logo contest. He said his inspiration for the winning design was to make a jewel in the image the "center point of the idea."
"(I) wanted to bring the 'word' and the 'shape' into a single image to reinforce the jewel concept," Davis says.
Davis' entry for the annual logo contest was chosen among seven submissions this year, a PrairieFest official said.
PrairieFest is, in the words of its coordinator Kerry Schnackenberg, a "celebration of the arts." So it only makes sense that the organization's council members would tap into the local community of graphic designers and artists to get the festival's official logo every year.
The contest builds a relationship between the council members of PrairieFest and the artists that submit artwork, Schnackenberg said. She added that the contest is a "good way to get the community involved in our arts festival."
Davis has been a graphic designer for 15 years. He graduated from the Colorado Institute of Art in 1993. "(I) really enjoy creating logos and seeing how God can evolve an idea into something that might not even be part of the original concept," he says.
Davis is currently managing the graphics department at First Intermark. He isn't from Ark City, but he says he grew up in a small town much like Ark City -- LaJunta, Colo.
He married in 1984 and moved to Denver where he lived for 15 years, but Davis says that he and his wife wanted to return to a small town to raise their children.
"My wife Sandra and I wanted to raise our children in a small town like we were because there are values in small towns that you can't really find an abundance of in the big city."
This year was the first year that Davis found time to enter the contest for designing the logo. He says that he has always wanted to enter but couldn't find the time in his schedule.
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