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A customer approached me about getting cards, stationary and signs made. I asked if they had a logo yet and he said they had to wait for the name to be registered and he would get back to me with it. He called back a couple of days ago apologetic, and said that he would have far rather gone with me, but his son had entered a logo design contest, but he still wanted me to do the signs etc. I said no problem, but suggested that they let me see the design before finalizing it. Meanwhile curiousity let me to find their competition on the 48 hours logo website and I was perusing some of the winning entries when this one really hit my funny bone. Does anyone else see what I do when they look at it?
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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This isn't my clients competition, this is the winning entry from another companies competition and the client is using it on their facebook page, so I assume they are using it for everything. The sad part of it is that there were some decent entries in the competition.
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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Wait, let me get this straight. There are 32 people that entered this "contest" and the "winner" gets $159?
There are so many things I'd rather do than enter a contest like that...
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quote:Originally posted by Mark M. Kottwitz: Wait, let me get this straight. There are 32 people that entered this "contest" and the "winner" gets $159?
There are so many things I'd rather do than enter a contest like that...
Yes, I think for the most part the only winner is the website who charge for each contest hosted. Like a lot of other things these days I suspect that the majority of the designs are coming from the middle east.
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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"Running a logo design contest is the coolest way to create your new business logo. 48hourslogo is the fastest growing logo design website online...... For just $99, you can:
Launch your own contest"
WOW.....Now, that is a real money maker !......for the owners of the website, of course.
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I suspect it's more of a statement than a logo, on what the designer thinks of these logo contests.
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quote:I suspect it's more of a statement than a logo
This makes sense. If true, it was clever.
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http://www.janustechinc.com/ I honestly don't think was meant to be a joke, the fellow who designed it has it nested among a number of other logos in his portfolio.
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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I am still looking for the other decent designs in that contest. Most of the stuff looks like clip art specials to me...
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The logos produced on these kinds of sites can be very clever.
I lost one client who decided to go with a crowd source logo site rather than use me. (I still got my design deposit for the initial work I had done with some protest by the client) The client was difficult to work with and art directed endlessly (without merit) so I wasn't sad to lose them. The logo they settled on (after many, many revisions) was exactly what they initially told me they did NOT want. It wasn't a bad logo but it wasn't the best I have seen either.
These sites provide a service to people who do not see the value of employing local talent and don't feel they need to pay what a good logo should cost. These contests allow them to have lots of choice and art direct the poor artist all the way through. It's my bet that they often get fantastic value for their money - certainly much better than if their nephew designed it.
The artists who participate in these contests work hard for their money in my view.This artist, by his own stats on the site had entered 3349 contests and was a finalist in 390 of these contest. He/she lists invites (wins?) as 63 with much less income than I would work for.
There is always someone willing to do it for much less than I would do it for. Their logos are not the ones I would design. Clients who want to use this kind of service aren't the ones I seek. It's all OK. There is room for everyone in this world.
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Does the arrow going to the target have anythng to do with what the business does, such as make Dart boards, target practice devices, or something having to get to the source of a problem or goal?
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I have been solicited several times from Fiver- wanting me to design logos, draw caricatures, airbrush, etc. for $5… are you kidding me, FIVE DOLLARS?! I can name a bunch of stuff I wouldn't' do for just $5
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