Read about our LogoWorks fiasco here:

http://mycookiecutterlogo.blogspot.com/

I received well over THIRTY concepts within one week’s time. These were some of the most hideous design work I’ve ever seen in my life. So few of the designs had anything to do with my business or my requests. They created a logo with a flying crane on it for a children’s portrait studio. They made yet another where some double-Os looked like breasts! Thankfully they have a money-back guarantee. I got mine back.

They’ve always handled my orders in a timely manner and it was easy to communicate my ideas to the artists.

I’d absolutely recommand the services they provided.

http://www.logoblog.org/

I work in television and have commissioned a number of logos over the year, and my experience with freelancers is that they’ve genereally been overpriced for these services. I can afford to try 4 or 5 of these online logo aggregators for the same price that I’ve been paying the local freelancers.

I particularly liked their artsy style, and their dirty cheap prices :). One week later I got exactly what I had in mind. They’ve got a quite original approach..if you read their faq, you’ll see they say something like ‘we are cheaper because we don’t offer affiliate programs as everybody else’. The overall feeling is that they keep themselves away from promising anything but good design.

Their design process is fairly straightforward. It’s by email, no interfaces or extranet. I guess they are a group of designers working together and somebody exchanging messages with customers.

Hope this helps somebody else.

Pat

To add…
The fact that there is no real communication between client and designer really doesn’t make sense to me. When I price a project I consider X amount of hours for both research and consulting. I make sure that my clients are informed about the designs I submit so they are making an educated decision about the “face” of their company.

See our logo in the portfolio too.

http://thelogocompany.net/logo-design-example.htm

Page 1. Gramco.

The customer support was first rate too. This company gets a good 8 out of 10 in my book

http://www.baddesignkills.com/logoworks/

The results vary with the designer and what you communicate. But be careful when you let designers have a free-for-all. Not all designers care about a business owner’s brand. You should take a close look at the logo for qoof (www.qoof.com) and compare it to Quark’s new logo (www.quark.com) the designs are too similar. Nachum paid $60 and got a logo with a ripped off idea.

It’s not that cheap is bad, it’s just that as a person in the design industry I know that not every designer has your best interests in mind. Caveat emptor! You need to do your own research and see if you can trust the designer!

I encourage the ‘pay for quality’ type of business(heck, I am a freelancer) but I do know not everyone can pay ‘top dollar’ for what they need to be done.

This is not your fault: it’s just the car that cost $300 seemed like a better deal than the car that cost $2000. After you buy it, own it and try to use it, you’ll find out why it was so cheap. Same with cheesey design.

These aren’t logos; they’re marks of bad taste. I know, let’s call them unsightly blemishes; you know–like pimples.

Susan Kirkland