This is fantastic. Most businesses --- the overwhelming majority of them, in fact --- need a distinct and competant bespoke logo, but absolutely don't need a custom couture treatment.
I'm betting that had this been available a year ago, one of these would be Patrick McKenzie's logo.
The only concern I have with 99designs is the policing. I'd like to know more about what they're doing to make sure the work up there is original --- a friend had a bad experience with this issue. If they can put a lid on that, I think this offering solves a huge problem.
I'm betting that had this been available a year ago, one of these would be Patrick McKenzie's logos.
I sympathize with the general point, but you're false in the specifics. I am totally willing to buy custom design at 3rd world prices rather than trying to shave that even farther and getting something which is generic.
I got three concepts done for the above from the same designer, and it cost me (checks records) $117 total. The two losing logos got shelved. Doing it the custom way let me get specify two things: that the BCC logo actually have a stylized bingo card on it (surprisingly hard to find in clip art -- trust me, I've looked) and that it use the blue/green color scheme I was going for.
But yeah, in general, design is too cheap these days for me to ever do a project without it. I kid you not, I have three applications to give conference presentations in the works at the moment and they all are getting custom logos. There is an 80/20 return to visual design and I want to get the 80 rather than wasting it.
I'm betting that had this been available a year ago, one of these would be Patrick McKenzie's logo.
The only concern I have with 99designs is the policing. I'd like to know more about what they're doing to make sure the work up there is original --- a friend had a bad experience with this issue. If they can put a lid on that, I think this offering solves a huge problem.