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Now a days we are in the process of our makeover with more stunning features, robust content and creative design. So we are starting this process with logo design. For this reason we would appreciate the involvement of the community who loves Smashing Apps and we were in the search of better ways to get this event successful. Now we have found cullogo.com that is involved in bringing designers and companies together so they can look for a number of alternate options for their upcoming design projects.
With cullogo, designers and companies discover opportunities they can easily interact on the “identity” project with the platform made ready by Cullogo. The process at Cullogo is really simple. You post a project and determine how much you want to pay as reward. Their community of designers then gets to work and submit their design proposals. You can then choose whose idea best suits your needs. Here is our logo redesign contest page at cullogo or click here to see the logo gallery for checking out the logos submitted so far. The contest was started on February 19, 2010 and will end on March 4, 2010.
Our Target Audience: Our target audience can be categorized as designers, developers, tech gurus, IT beginners, programmers, photographers, creative artists and people related to these technology professions.
Our Requirements: Actually we have no specific requirements but we would like our new logo meet all the design standards and should be a competitive business identity for Smashing Apps. It may be sleek, it may be bright, it may be colorful, it may be single color, it may be elegant, it may be corporate-style or it may be of any other type but it should be attractive and eye-catching with symbolic identity.
If we are unlucky to select a satisfied logo to become the official identity of Smashing Apps, we still won’t discourage the designers and will select and appreciate the winner at Cullogo with the promised reward. Moreover, we’ll also publish top 10 proposed logos at Smashing Apps as reward for those who couldn’t win the contest but participated with their creative ideas and efforts.
Important Update : This contest is just to involve our community for making Smashing Apps better and everybody is free to decide whether he/she wants to participate or not. Your logo will be your property and we will never use any OR all logos without owner permission. Our decision will be final for selecting official logo of Smashing Apps. In either way, winner will be rewarded with $200 and we will feature Top 10 designs in our opinion with credits to original designer.
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Comments
…Sorry, I think it’s ridiculous that a professional site as smashing apps uses a contest with a price of €200 (…!) to get a new logo. If you want a new logo you hire a designer, that’s the way it should be!
Nice one!!!
I do not understand some people … this type of competition can only be good,we can gain visibility and the winner even more. So I can only congratulate the Smashing apps for the initiative.
Why would any designer worth their salt do any kind of spec work? Would you ask several Decorators to decorate your house & then only pay one of them? Would you walk into a Bakery, take a bite from 30 different cakes and then only buy one for about 40% of it’s worth? NO YOU BLOODY WELL WOULDN’T!!!
Lets do some simple math.
$200 for a rights released you can do what you want with it logo.
10 or more: hours it creates to embody a brand through a mark or identity.
200 / 20 = $10hr or less depending on if it takes you longer to design a logo.
$250 = The amount an advertiser pays for a 150px x 150px banner ad on your site per month.
Equation:
You have a CHANCE to win this contest so the logo design is spec. You also are saying that the value of your “logo” is less than a 150×150 banner ad for a month. That is beyond backwards thinking.
Quality:
Just like the submissions you are getting, you will be far from “original & creative” with your new logo…
I really have to respectfully object here.
The last commenter detailed exactly why spec design contest websites are a plague on individual designers. Multiply this by all the designers looking for work and you have some idea on how spec contest websites are undermining the general prospect of graphic designers making a living at what they do.
And, to be blunt, a website that looks to serve designers really should know better. And offering only $200? Respectfully, you ought to truly know better than that.
I hope you continue to offer free resources. The way the spec contest websites are undermining the market, that’s about all we independent designers will be able to afford before too much longer.
Woww.. I really love all that “philosophy”, you guys must be reaaaalyy rich i guess.
Dont believe you´ve never made a logo for this money or less..we all did
So whats the diference now!!! If you dont like it, dont comment it
@Peter Your missing the point. We aren’t saying that we have never designed anything “on the cheap” We are saying that designers shouldn’t work for free, which is essentially what you are doing when you submit spec work such as this.
Remember only 1 person will get paid for this job when potentially 1000′s of designers could be working on it.
Unless the winner is willing to share, in which case you can look forward to your check for $0.01 (not exact maths but pretty close I reckon).
Just one final note please never again close a comment with “If you don’t like it, don’t comment it” it is possibly the most hypocritical thing I have ever read!
…It’s the old argument we creatives always have to hear: when it’s about design, illustration or something else creative it suddenly is logical you do it for free or for little money or in a contest, cause ‘it’s fun to be creative….!’ Yes, it’s fun to be creative, just as it’s fun to be technical or handy. But Peter, do you ask your garageholder to make your car for free or little money cause it’s fun to make a car?
hii guys, by the way…smashing apps didnt ask for anything they simply launch a contest…so its all about who wants to participate or not!!
I do understand what you guys mean and really agree with that, but i´ve stoped that battle a long time ago.
So why not join them!!
And i do really have fun with my work, sometimes a challenge its fun..what if you completely forget about the money and just do it for fun..
Once again its all about who wants to participate or not!!!
CHEARS AND HAVE FUN!!
Crowdsourcing assumes that a whole lot of people will work for free on the chance they’ll get paid.
Every crowdsourcing contest that is promoted makes it that much harder for any beginning graphic designer to expect to walk out even with a portfolio and expect to get paid a reasonable rate for honest hard work.
Every entrant to a crowdsourcing contest rewards that thinking. And it’s not going to be lost on businesses looking for design work that they can get desperation on the cheap. Of course, it’s not a sudden change … more of a slow death by inches. Or points. Or pixels.
And business, even though they think they’re getting something for nothing, is even reducing their own expectations for good quality design.
If you want to participate, by all means feel free though.
I still feel that a site that claims to serve designers should know better than to crowdsource – and a decent logo is going to cost more than $200. Maybe not so much more, but more.
Some of us would like to forget about money and just have fun with it, but we have bills to pay. And paying bills is kind of fun, too.
..”a site that claims to serve designers..”
I used to think so, i guess there are few designers using smashing apps, i mean.. Have you seen the logos submited??
loll
I will never visit this site again.. I am so disappointed that you would resort to spec work for your logo design. Unbelievable..
Here is a suggestion, create a formula to select the best logo, first filter the submissions down to say 20-25, then post those 20-25 along with the designers credits (name, site, etc..) and allow your readers vote for there favorites, and yes, it could lead to a popularity content, or the who’s who contest, but then take the top 5 and make your selection from there or something along those lines, but essentially profile 20-25 designers work, to at least allow them to get some credit.
Everyone has an interesting point here…
I do agree creative shouldnt be cheep as it is the price on this website, specially by the website who have a lot of understanding about designers…
I do agree its fun, and sometimes you got to do what you got to do (even for fun – like it is the hight of risk when you jump from plan or bungee jumping but we do it cause its fun)
and atlast I really like the suggestion that Thomas has mentioned…
so jump in for fun, but not for money… I guess.
my worries: what if every client starts doing the same… we creatives will die of hunger… so it has to stop somewhere, there have to be some standard… and I’m sure it will be more than 200$…
Are you going to pick a winner.
The contest doesn’t seem to have been updated since Mar 5, 2010.
No feedback, no updates since you stated it would be finished “earlier next week” = Mar. 8, 9, 10.
Alas these are the pitfalls of spec work.
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