LicensArt.com Logo Design Competition
Author of this post: Anjula Duggal | About Blog Authors »
LicensArt.com needs a new logo, and they want you to design it! They’re looking for a graphic symbol or icon that elegantly captures and communicates the essence of their unique business model, connecting creativity with commerce. The contest is open to all artists and designers (both professional and non-professional), as well as art students from anywhere in the world. The logo should be vector graphics, not a bitmap image, should be usable in monochrome and color media, including limited colors (say 2 or 3 colors). The logo must be the original work of the submitter. $1,000 (USD) will be awarded to the submitter of the winning design.
Deadline: November 30, 2007
Details:
October 1st, 2007 at 2:39 pm
http://www.no-spec.com/
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:13 am
Hi Anjula, I’m rather surprised to see all these posts for design competitions here at Notes On Design. I’m not saying that all design competitions are bad, but if you are unfamiliar with NO!SPEC you might want to read the website, learn about their mission and pass that along to your readers as well. http://www.no-spec.com
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:19 am
(shaking head)
Total spec.
And sessions.edu is supposed to be showing designers the ropes of the industry? Amazing.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:53 pm
I used to have a TON of respect for Notes on Design. However, the fact that you’re posting this exploitation “contest” on this site is seriously undermining your credibility.
I thought this site was made up of professionals and educators? Why is this spec work being advertised?
Please remove this post immediately!
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:24 pm
This is nonsense, design competitions are garbage and a terrible way to interact with designers. You and your advertisers should be ashamed.
October 3rd, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Anyone thinking of submitting an entry should familiarise themselves with http://www.no-spec.com beforehand. There’s a wealth of info there that tells you what you need to know about spec work like this.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
I agree with the consensus here. This is not a legitimate competition, this is a call for free work. In this scenario, the “client” gets to review a large volume of designs (conceivably tens of thousands of dollars worth of work) for free. The “winner” gets $1000. What do the “losers” get?
This does not encourage good business practice for design students and cheapens the work that is produced by the design community as a whole. It builds the perception among employers that the salaries and fees for graphic designers can remain low because “they do this for fun anyway”.
One way for designers to earn respect is to stop doing work for free. Let these “competitions” be for amateurs only. When the “client” receives only amateur submissions, hopefully they will see their need to hire a professional to get the real job done.
October 12th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
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October 31st, 2007 at 11:05 pm
[...] This was soon followed with people at Notes on Design announcing a logo design competition, which is still actually running. Before the unaware head over to enter, it’s worth your while reading this: Logo design contests are bad for business. [...]
November 2nd, 2007 at 10:22 am
I must agree, this is not a legitimate competition. But could not agree with remark that all design contests are bad for business. It looks that some designers are afraid from tough competition.
November 3rd, 2007 at 10:12 am
[...] Despite the ongoing and industry wide campaign against logo design contests, they continue to pop up all over the intertoobz with increasing frequency. Even people who arguably should know better are getting into the action, including Licensart, a site that allows designers and artists to exhibit their work. Causing a little bit of a stir too, if the comment section of this post on Design Sessions is any indication. It that’s not enough, Canadian-based Marketing Magazine - a respected cornerstone of the marketing industry above the 49th is at it too, launching a contest for their 100th anniversary insignia, something that gets under designer Ronnie Lebow’s skin (who also gets a hat tip for bringing this to our attention). Marketing Magzine can’t exactly claim ignorance of how this issue is viewed - they’ve written extensively on spec work before. For better or worse, I’d say that logo design contests are here to stay, though their effectiveness in creating a decent mark is certainly open for debate. For those new to the issue, David Airey’s excellent logo design contests are bad for business feature is a pretty good primer. [...]
November 30th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Nice Post! Contest like this are good for logo designers. Here is a good resource for designers to get some ideas about logo design. Hope it will help ya all
http://www.logoblog.org/
December 19th, 2007 at 1:02 am
[...] Even Frisky has a little “make my day” kind of attitude about this issue…It seems that certain design competitions are ‘on spec.’ In other words, competitions sometimes try to get something for nothing as they appeal for competitors in hopes of finding ‘free’ artwork. Of course, I can’t filter through all the competitions here and you know this. But, some poor souls at Notes on Design had their butts handed to them on a platter after they posted the LicensArt.com logo design contest. [...]
January 29th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Hi everybody. 15th Feb is the deadline for submitting your logo for Semi-Annual American Logo design awards. Hope you all participate and best of luck :-)
http://www.01interactive.com
March 29th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Such competitions are really encouraging for designers like us. Thank you again. Go on!
April 12th, 2008 at 9:36 am
agree that these contest give full advantage and benefit to the site owner only. The designer only get so little amount and gives his best work. Its upto designer that they want to be fool or not.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:15 am
I saw one website with all different kinds of design templates. It’s a stock photography site but has vector art and illustrations. Just use those keywords to narrow your search, and then use the great visual search tools to quickly find what you want.
You can check it out at http://xcavator.net/
August 5th, 2008 at 7:48 am
I just want to clearify one thing .. Is the winning logo remain the property of the designer or it becomes the property of the contest owner?
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November 20th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
is this project is still valid ?
November 20th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
ooh, this project was published in 2007, must be closed