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Paid for Worst logo design

June 14, 2009  |   2. Blog,Articles   |     |   0 Comment

Paid for Worst logo design

As many of you maye know, 99designs is a huge and successful contests website. There are many quality contests but some of them stand out from the crowd. And one of these is a extrenely funny and attractive logo contest, which you can see here. The reward is $50 but it received 307 entries. How? It’s because of the difference and fun. I have to admit it is a creative idea to launch such a contest. The story was like that: a designer won $225 prize but as far as I remember he had some problems withdrawing this money. So he decided to have some fun and launched this contest. Contest holder wanted to get the worst logo designers could come up with. And this is not an easy task for the designers! If you want to design a really ‘good’ logo, then you have to use the colours in a way to hurt the eyeballs. The concept should be stupid, unusual and.. Funny, of course! Some illegible signs or badly spelled words could make it even worse. The logo should also look unprofessional but in order to make this, you have to ...