[BNM] Logo design?

[Ali]

wow good wired blog - Nike only paid $35 for their swoosh - that girl must
be a lot more gutted than the twitter designer (unless twitter does end up
taking over the world and selling top suggested follower slots for millions
[1]) - but thems the apples with this type of licensing...

Personally I like crowdsourcing - the x factor of design ;)

Ali
[1] http://budurl.com/s5ml

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of JOHN COOPER
Sent: 16 March 2009 11:39
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] Logo design?

been reading some interesting articles/discussions lately on crowd  
sourcing and the design community
here's the 2 prominent sites for getting a logo designed
logosauce.com
crowdSpring.com

and some reading material....
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/03/is-crowdsourcin.html
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/03/twitter-designe.html
http://www.callmejeffrey.com/2009/02/27/its-ok-to-be-grey/
http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/the-tech-observer/2009/03/10/is-crowdso
urcing-evil

As a designer, my gut reaction is to have the whole idea, from a  
business/client point of view i think it's great.
advantage : low cost, large amount of ideas from different perspectives
disadvantage : less engagement with the designer so perhaps  
involvement, perhaps designers are losing out as a whole, some  
hazyness regarding reuse of the design if licensed from say  
iStockphoto - see the twitter example, twitter purchased their birdie  
pic for $6 but anyone can still buy it (as far as i'm aware)

john cooper



On 16 Mar 2009, at 10:35, iestyn lloyd wrote:

> From a friend:
> "Whats the name of that logo design competion site where people  
> compete to
> create a new logo in order to win the prize offered by the company  
> requiring
> the logo?"




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