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Your Logo..
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I have someone working on a logo for me, and I thought it would be nice to see what other people have come up with..please share yours..I could use a bit of inspiration about now.
peace..
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erica mcdonald
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Sat Mar 29 00:07:48 UTC 2008
(ed. Apr 30 2008)
New York,
United States
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Here is the logo of Ka-set, the daily updated information website about Cambodia we have put together…
It was designed by LS’er Steve Coleman.
Ka-set means newspaper in Khmer.
John
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you can check my logo with visiting my website or my LS gallery. It is white background on my biz card and other papers but I had to have grey for the website even though I don’t like grey background.
Tesiba Photo
cheers, A
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Here’s mine stuck in a picture. I think I might be tiring of it. It’s not serious enough. 
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Lost Art
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Does anyone have any idea as to the going rate for logo design in New York? I need to get one done soon.
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Now I gotta get a logo too? Crap. Phil, you could try hitting up the design schools – SVA, Pratt, Parsons and so forth – for a student to do your logo for you. I just hired a desinger to make a postcard for me. She did a lousy job, and so I hired one of my students from Ramapo, and she made a great one.
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Yeah, I have a friends wife, who did a great one for him, ready to do it but I just want to know how much I should expect to pay her.
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The pro designers I’ve worked with charge between 35-50/hour. A logo should take two or three hours, I’d guess. I heard that Paul Rand got paid about a zillion to design the IBM logo.
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well, i don’t think that paul rand got paid a zillion for the ibm logo but he might have gotten a lot more than 35-50/hour. :-)
photographers and desingers, graphic designers and web designers, can be very similar in a way. you can get mediocre quality for mediocre money. most of the time you will have to pay a good amount of money to get good quality. or let’s rather say professional quality.
i have been working as a web- and graphic designer myselfe, it’s hard to estimate how long it takes to make a logo but if you want a professional logo it will certainly take more than 2 – 3 hours. after a first briefing the designer needs to sit down and think about how to transport what should be said with a logo, a bunch of various logo versions are made, one to three are presented at a design matching meeting, at least a second round of design adjustments and detail adjustments is needed until a final version of the logo is ready. when i did logo design i charged approximately 1.000 to 1.500 euros for a logo design. and i am certainly not a top-notch designer. i am good, but there are many better designers out there. 1.000 to 1.500 euros might seem a lot for many people, high class designers will laugh about this price, they might even be pissed to see somebody doing this kind of work for this amount of money.
it’s just like talking about photographers…
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Erica, maybe you could post the logo the designers are working on, so we could critique? Designers love having feedback coming from more than one person!
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ooh..he isn’t too happy with me I think, i’ve tossed out 12 options already..I need some ideas to point him toward, before he points me toward the door..
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mine’s based on a fractal 
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Martin is right on the money. When I worked for an ad agency, part of the contract was how many base ideas we would provide (usually no more than 5), them we would take customer feedback, provide a second round of 2-3, then the final round that produced the final logo. Anything above and beyond would be billable on top of what the contract specified.
Erica, you might really want to check to make sure you aren’t getting billed for even more work, if you have tossed out 12 options. You might also consider that the designer may not be the one for you, pay him for his time, and move on to someone else.
Besides, how important is a logo for a photographer? If you look at my site, I just have a basic text logo.
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yep..it’s just going to be text, but I used to work in design, so I am sensitive to things looking a certain way..but thanks
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i have worked and taught in design being typographical design (logos) and interior design (shop signage) i have been a photojournalist for about 16 years since. a logo has been low on my agenda where the photographs have been very high up… but for usd40.00 an hour i am happy to to be contacted and do a logo design for a photog out there. as they say call me!
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After shooting a Japanese rock band one day, one of the members drew a little caricature of me on the whiteboard that I really should have printed on my business cards:  At the bottom, it says ジム which is “Jim” in katakana.
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Barcode, pretty simple and it actually does read when scanned (beer for anyone who actually scans it!)
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cool logo ;)
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Thanks, made my stupid day! :-)
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Can I buy a logo at Wal-Mart? And how much do they cost? I’m assuming that they’re less than a Leica but more than a scarf, but at the moment I dont have any particulars.
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Perfect logo for you Erica – a scarf wrapped around a Leica. nice.
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J-F, that sums up the uk government for me..
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realized when i saw this thread thad I personally do not have a logo. Had a logo for my now gone studio.
I therefore sat down and designed this
Wich should I choose
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Probably a stupid curse on it, but I really like the one on the left a lot. The strutting eye. Absolutely original and strikingly memorable. The one on the right feels like an over-distillation of the other, too evocative of painting, much less memorable. But rest assured that the majority of mankind will feel exactly the other way around.
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Thanx for your not so stupid comment,you ar not alone with your stupid choise as my wife agrees on the left one. :)
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Your wife and Stoop are right, Kristjan; go with the one on the left. It sticks in the mind-the other one looks like an abstract eye of Sauron or maybe an advertisement for a postmodern Masonic lodge.
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Kristjan: The ‘strutting eye’ (left) is also my favourite of the two. It reminds me of Japanese calligraphy which I love. If your work is zen-like (or you have one large eye in the middle of your head!) it would fit really well.
Since our work is 3D in this field, couldn’t our logos reflect this rather than being 2D or flat? Erica, how about incorporating one, or part of, an image you have taken that reflects ‘you’?
Peace,
Jenny
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