Designmantic.com

I’ve been mulling around the business plan for years. Since this blog began. There have been many names, many versions, many epiphanies that I rode high, for a week or two. Today was another, and I was determined that it was time to launch: CultivateCASH. Just to step back, the previous idea was PEACEProfits, with a tag line of Peace Profiteering. This was when the dialogue was a critical part of it, and at times, I had the “P” standing for Praxis. Silly how I have fallen into this false acronym game. Nevertheless, it became, Peer Exchange for Agroecology, Culture, and Economics. PEACEProfits. The idea that building strong relationships, building the planet, and celebrating culture are what build wealth. Also of course that the focus is on income generation through projects that contextualize education and get students to problem solve about their environment. Generate income through planetary regeneration. But I felt that the focus I wanted to make in the name needed to emphasize the “agro” aspect. So, CultivateCASH came. Cultivate Community with Agroecology for Sustainable Health. It could work. So in my epiphany, I just wanted to label it and cement the whole process. So what do we do next? Develop a logo. I’ve previously paid over a hundred dollars to have a friend sketch a logo that I had imagined. I wanted it to look youthful, and even to distance myself from all the corporate looking logos. But, not only did the name change and make the artwork irrelevant, but looking at it just makes things look sloppy, rather than fun. Back to a typical logo. Logos can go for thousands, or a poorly rated app for $69. On a whim, I typed in free logo and found designmantic.com. It created a perfectly suitable logo, with a lot of other workable options! It was easy.