• No, Microsoft Word is not the correct kind of program to design your logo in.
• When your designer asks for a high resolution copy of your logo, he means something that not 150 x 300 pixels, but rather a logo professionally designed with a vector drawing program, say, Adobe Illustrator.
• Despite how creative your designer is, he or she need input and ideas about what you want to accomplish in order to give you results in return.
• Designing a logo that you feel comfortable with can take as little as 1 hour or as long as a few days or even weeks (depending on the amount of people who have to affirm it), you have to pay for such effort, obviously.
• The primary colours are blue, green, and red (unless we are talking about print, then they are cyan, magenta, and yellow).
• No, blue is not a warm colour. Subsequently, red is not a cool colour.
• After you have approved all designs, changing your mind means you will incur additional costs.
• You cannot just take photos or other images/designs from the Internet and reuse them without clearing proper copyright issues.

http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-April/010319.html discusses some of the finer points with regard to this issue.

On the FSF site we can find a mention of how fonts apparently are a difficult thing with the GPL.

Personally I am getting sick of licenses to the marrow of my bone.

A typical font license is quite similar to what Adobe says on their “What about fonts?” page.

To quote:

“You may embed typefaces into documents only under certain circumstances. Adobe permits embedding certain typefaces into documents for the explicit purpose of viewing and printing only.”

An interesting article on the issue Font Licensing and Protection Details.

On the art side I totally fell in love with Ryan Church’s work especially after seeing some of his concept artwork as laid out in my copy of The Making of Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith.