This secures a graphic designer’s hard work and the client cannot steal a designer’s ideas or designs.

I find these website sad. Those companies are making big bucks on the backs of the designers… I don’t understand why any real designer participates with those practices… you’ll get what 195 dollars for a logo design ? and u have a chance of what 1/10 ? that means u make a logo for 19.5 dollars. meaning u would only take 30min to create one … Do you realy want this to take over the graphic design world ? I’d preffer looking for a client that pays me what I deserve. and then mostly i only need to design one logo for at least double the reward you get on those sites…

Why should designers have to enter a “contest” in order to find work? And do work on speculation? Its blows the mind how the graphic design business continues to cheapen itself. I don’t see any other profession taking this approach. Graphic designers are not laborers or drones. They are skilled innovative people with a unique ability to be creative. They shouldn’t be cheapened by low balling prices or gimmicks.

It reminds me that I got a logo work request few weeks back, later person who ordered the logo with me couldn’t answer details I needed, so he handled me to some other guy and asked me to say him that I am his personal designer staff. Later while discussing with client in messenger the logo he ordered was for $150 and the reality was I made it just for $5. He said he was very satisfied with the logo. I wonder how to make a rate of my work. I’m afraid I may miss my clients if I increase rate. Not sure what to do.

Crowdsourcing sucks folks. Participate in it at your own risk. You are wasting your time and you might, MIGHT make a few hundred bucks per year. Your wasting time you could be spending with family or doing any number of more constructive things. You will never get compensated for that much wasted time. No spec, folks.

This article as well as that website design is sad! First of all it’s like elance site it brings many designers from overseas where $1 is actually worth a lot and you can live ok on $2.00 a week. How can American/Canadian designers compete with such low balling “logos” many of them are clip art symbols anyway and there’s no work shown with typography at all.

If you want to be respectful portal for designers, I suggest you remove that article from your website and never mention about them ever again.

It must be very sad for those designers who wasted thousands of $$$$ on getting their BA’s degrees in universities and now find “clients” who want to pay pennies for logos that might serve them for many years to come. Altho I’ve seen some concepts there taken from other logos. I personally seen 3 companies in my town who all 3 used the same logo! Boy was that entertaining

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Personally, I am quite on the fence regarding the use of a crowdsourcing site for a logo design. It is still a touchy issue for most designers who said that crowdsourcing is a no-no for obtaining a logo design. I have tried crowdsourcing before and I know the risks involved but it comes within the territory. But there are other no-frills logo design websites online such as logobee.com, logodesignstation.com, logoyes.com, etc. which are actually great in getting a professional logo design at a fraction of the price and minus the risks of crowdsourcing (plagiarism is one of them). Seeing that there are no consultation services, the price is significantly lower than that of conventional design firms.

For instance, I have tried logodesignstation.com and the experience was indeed a positive one. I managed to get my business logo design at an affordable price and the turnaround time was great as well. Highly recommended. Although crowdsourcing for logo designs could be a bane for some, many find it to be a viable alternative to get a fast logo on the cheap. It all depends on the individual actually.