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Professional Logo Design Process
Briefly the professional logos design process on LogoStudies.com consists of: 1) studying the niche, theme and style. We learn about your niche, see it's main points and according to that we think of the concepts and ideas. It is also good when customer gives some samples of logos that he likes and expects to receive. That helps to understand better what the customer requires. And we all know that each customer is different so giving examples of logos he likes is a huge advantage for him too. Remember: it is not to copy the logo, it is just to make a professional logo that is closer to what the customers needs. 2) doing a lot of rough logo sketches on paper. Regarding to the given logo examples and studies of the niche, the work on a paper begins and a lot of rough sketches are made on it. That helps to come up with different ideas and when there is at least 1 very good concept, it is developed further untill it looks good. 3) digital logotype version is made with some more slightly different versions. The experiments do not end on the paper. During the digital professional logo version creation, ...
Places to earn money designing logos and other
If you are a designer who doesn’t know where to submit your designs to make money, then you have to read this. There are many websites where you can enter logo and other contests but they might be too low rewarding, unprofessional organized or full of too skilled designers who always outdo you. I made a list of recommended sites, where you can profit from design. If you are a man who needs a design then you can enter these sites too but the comments near the sites are basically for designers. 99designs - very many contests running at the same time, that’s over 600! The count of contest hints that there are really many designers - over 30.000. The contest winners are highly awarded. That’s from $150 to $1000 or even more. And most of contests are guaranteed (that means a winner will be chosen for sure). There are really many talented designers to compete with but you can also find a contest which you may feel that you can win! I mean you see the designs submitted and think for yourself if you can beat them. Quite a good strategy for newcomers. You can also browse through folios ...
35 Typography Illustrator Logos
Text part in a logo is as important as icon. It should have some changes to be unique. So here are some typography logos to help you improve your text part in an illustrator logo. Different fonts are used and some of them are custom fonts. See all the logos, take a look at all the curvings, editions and that might be a good inspiration for you. Enjoy! :) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
TIPS for contest holders
So you are going to hold a contest on forum, contests site or maybe you are already doing that. Anyway, it doesn’t matter but you should know something to achieve better results! Remember suggestions given here and you will absolutely have a better logo at the end of the contest. Tip: set a smart prize If your contest is on a website where designers can arrange contests let’s say by a reward. Then the highest paid contest are on the top and the lowest on the bottom. So, if you decide to pay $300 for a winner then you should make it be $301 because your site will be above all those $300 then. This way your contest will attract more designers than it could if it was $300 worth contest and was among other $300 paying contests. Look at this image, it is just a good example of what I have in mind: As you see there are several contests with $300 prize and one with $303 is on the top. It absolutely gets more attention from designer than those below it. Tip: leave comments carefully not to ...
25 Stunning 3D Illustrator logos
A really amazing thing that a human is able to do with a help of a computer is 3D graphic. This post is about 3D illustrator logos that will amaze you or even give you some inspiration. It should be a good sight for brands and other designers and for sure this should greatly impress any other reader who is not related to design. And now.. Here is the list of 25 3D logo designs, see them all!
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 ...
Mascots, Illustrations and 25 beautiful samples
I bet you have seen many impressive logos with nice illustrations like birds, animals, people and many other various things. It seems that they had been done by spending LOTS of time and this job requires much effort. I thought designers had been using special tools like a pad in order to create logo with illustration. I agree, you have to work on many details, shapes and shadows (not always) but that’s not always as hard as you imagine! I’ve been browsing through design contests in the past and never entered any that needs an illustration in the logo. I even rejected private works that require an illustration! And I regret that now. I thought it was not for me and I ccould not do such a thing. The designs submitted for the contests were really awesome and I couldn’t imagine myself doing anything like that. You might think the same about you but don’t hurry to judge! I heard about pople making sketches on a paper some time ago. They make many concepts, then scan them and open with Illustrator. I really thought it was a completely waste of time as it takes so much time ...
Tutorial websites
Hey, if you are looking for tutorials online then you should read further. You can find some lessons here on this website but if you want something more then you may want to know about these websites. Read detailed desccriptions and visit the following websites for the best tutorials for beginners and advanced designers! vectortuts+ - a website full of tutorials. There are plenty of them. That’s because they pay $150 for a man who submits a tutorial and they publish it. If you know something cool like creating a nice and detailed icon or something unusual then you have great chances to earn that reward. You can find very many useful tutorials for advanced designers. The lessons are unbelievable and you should read some for sure. pixel2life - a website filled with over 400 lessons picked from other websites and put together in same place. Quite worth to look at these.. Quite many are from site mentioned above, but you might haven’t seen them yet. tutorialized.com - again a website full of tutorials (over 370 for Adobe Illustrator). Not the top site but you can find some really ...
Win a contest
One of the designer’s earning ways on the internet is logo contests. People like contests because anyone can enter them and for the first time they think there is a really high chance to win a nice prize and it becomes exciting. Actually it doesn’t last for long. Imagine, you participate in 30 contests and win nothing! What would you do? I guess you would stop entering design contests regulary. That’s because you start losing your confidence. But I am sure you will enter new contests again and again when you win your first or other prize! The big thing is: the logo and other graphic you do has to appeal to yourself! Some time ago I have been entering these contests. I read the description, see other entries and then open Illustrator. Then I started making a logo and it mostly took me like 2 hours of work. But suddenly I started to criticize it! I was like: “It doesn’t look that good”, “Ouch, my eyeballs!”, “What is this? Does that have any link with the company? NO!!!”. After some monologue I submitted my artwork. And guess what.. I haven’t won any contest with ...
Logos that cost Millions
There are many logo makers in the world and the price for their services varies very much. Starting freelancer designers do not ask much for the logo and that could be even $5! Some people even dare to pay silly $2. Advanced designers earn much more money and that might be from $100 to several thousands of dollars. But can you imagine up to millions dollars paid for the logo? That is unbelievable truth. Let’s see some of the logos that that are worth lots of money. ELDC logo - £10.000 Southampton University logo - £360,000 Olympics logo London 2012 - £400,000, that’s like $800,000 Starz - $25 millions including logo and ad campaigns Pepsi - $1 million for a logo. That’s a part of the whole rebrand cost - 300 millions dollars Edinburgh logo - £1.020.000 Posten - 55 million dollar for a logo! Also, it ...
