Logo Design Competition – Stay Far Away!!!!

Another company doing logos on the cheap ( http://logotournament.com/ ). I guess what really chaps my tail is that designers are dumb enough to sign up for this low pay junk or no pay at all competitions. Are they really that desperate to get money for their work that they will submit logo designs and hope to get selected so they can earn a measly $200 to $300? Now I am starting to think the designers are to blame and not these site creators, or maybe it is a little bit of both causing these troubled times in our industry.

My favorite comment on the home page of this site is “See your first company logos within hours, not weeks.” Well heck and shucky darn, what a bargain, I can get a logo in hours compared to a real designer who would actually put some freaking effort into the design, research and do true branding studies.

Okay, one more funny comment, “No Photoshop/PSD logo designers allowed. We are professional logo design community and strongly believe that a logo must come in a true vector format.” Well, if only having your logo in EPS format makes your logo a good logo, then I guess they are right. What the heck about research and development, what about time to understand your client and their business?

For the same effort you put into signing up for one of these competions, you could spend that same time getting quality higher paying clients in your own local community or surrounding towns. I just cannot see how this could be beneficial, it is just hoping again for Blue Sky to come raining down on you with cash from the heavens. Good luck with that, because even if you did get paid by this site and their client for your logo, you are coming out on the short end of the stick and worked your butt off for just a few bucks.

Overall, you would be better off submitting your designs to stock and template sites, you would get a better return on your time and could sell more than just one logo.