Logo Design

stone1

or better yet, here's what I have done: I have held a logo contest on forums.digitalpoint.com. Imagine that for $75 participants submitted over 30 entries. I just chosen which I liked the most.

riggerz

try www.ellaannouncements.co.uk the lady there, Amanda is brill and really cheap too!!

DKLS

Ask around on HUKD, there are some great designers on there who are wanting to build their portfolios.
I had a logo built, and despite offering money they wouldn't take it.
Someone last week was offering to build websites for free for the same reason.

Or as I have done in the past, contact the design school at your local Uni, and ask the Tutor, to send a group email to students with your request, I have found some great/cheap freelancers that way.

DaisyClaire

Thanks again all.

I have sent Amanda at Ella Announcements an email as her designs are spot on what I am after.

Thank you riggerz.

Keep the recommendations/ideas coming though incase I need a plan B

j2dao2dae

Hi,

I am a young designer, more then happy to help if wanted. Can knock one up for you and if you like can sort out a fee £20.00 max.

Send me a message.

TizzyDizzy

I think a reasonable price for a logo would be around £75-100.

What people don't appreciate is that you are not just paying for someone to produce a digital image but to come up with concepts and ideas. It's the creative aspect that you are actually paying for.

Of course there are plently of cheap and free logo generators online you can use yourself, but at the end of the day when you commission a designer to come up with a logo for you, you are paying for their ideas and time.

Any designer worth their money would provide you with a series of concepts from which you can refine and then output the final artwork to all the major formats for digital and print media. All this after taking a brief from you on your business and how you want your brand to be perceived.

I love working with new businesses, helping define how they are going to look - it's one of the most exciting aspects of design work.

sunny_mummy

as a professional graphic designer, i'd charge £50 for a logo design for a small company - HTH.

Brammeldi

I'm a graphic designer who has done some odd jobs here and there. I've never put a price on anything I do but once, I designed two logos for a start-up radio station and they offered me £350...I turned it down though because at the time I didn't want to mess around with declaring tax etc. Another time, I designed an A4 leaflet and they wanted to give me £50. I guess it varies.

Don't use the "design your own" websites though as you are bound to have a logo that looks like one someone else has and often, the designs might have been copied from someone else. There are logo design competition websites, where you can submit your brief with the prize you offer and a mass (hopefully) of people will give it a go and you get to tell them what your faves are and get them to tweek bits and pieces.

I would steer clear of people who charge less than £50 for a logo design as usually someone should spend time putting different ideas together, or variants of an idea for you to narrow down which you like best and for them to make the odd changes here and there. Getting the ideas alone can take 2-3 hours of messing around and trying different things, so if someone is just charging £20, already you've only paid them £6.50 per hour. Then you have say, another 2 hours of corrections on the ones you like, it turns out about £5 per hour work which is way below minimum wage.

To make it worth my while, I would charge at least £50 per logo. Having said that, I am exhibit A of someone doing big jobs for nothing...but I've never had anyone be disappointed in my work.

I hope you get a great design...hopefully you can share it with us once it's done.

newbienewbison

So many peopl on here obvioulsly dont have very good businesses.... why do you want to pay less than £100 for the image of your comapny.... I am not saying spend 10's of thousands but £1000 is not over the top is it?!

Volcano

newbienewbison wrote: »

So many peopl on here obvioulsly dont have very good businesses.... why do you want to pay less than £100 for the image of your comapny....

It's not the image of their company, it's a pretty pattern on the top of a letter which has nothing to do with how 'good' someone's business is.

I am not saying spend 10's of thousands but £1000 is not over the top is it?!

Clearly it is if:

sunny_mummy wrote:

as a professional graphic designer, i'd charge £50 for a logo design for a small company - HTH.