As a small business owner, you need a professional logo design to represent your brand. Launching an online logo design contest at 48hourslogo is an easy, fast and affordable way to a beautiful, custom designed logo. In this post, we will share a few tips to help maximizing your logo contest and help you get the best bang for your buck.
Tag: 48hourslogo
Navigating your options online for getting a logo design can be a bit confusing. If you’re trying to host a logo contest, there are about a dozen that all seem the same on the surface. With a few specific differences, how you can be sure which one is right for you? We’re going to compare two of the top logo contest sites – 48hourslogo and DesignCrowd, to see how they differ and if one stands out over the other.
In this 48hourslogo logo designer interview series, we discover how SergioLopez likes to unwind, where he sees himself as a designer in a year, and what advice he has for anyone considering starting a logo contest.
by Rick Mullenix | Community Manager
Our next Featured Designer is an aspiring football player with a knack for design. Rico, known around these parts as imagine, is 23 years old from Malang, East Java Indonesia. He’s been married for a year and a half now. Rico and his wife have been blessed with a son, 5 months old, who he says “is the greatest gift of God to me.” Easy to communicate with, he is fluent in Indonesian, Javanese, and English.
In this interview we will reveal what it’s like when imagine designs, his go-to fonts, and what special message he has for his fellow 48HoursLogo.com designers.
by Rick Mullenix | Community Manager
We have a lot of talent in our Design Community, and this month we are proud to feature long-time designer Smith1979. His creative style can be seen across many mediums, from logos, t-shirts, packaging design, and music! To date Smith1979 has won 114 contests, been selected as a Finalist 220 times, and received many positive feedback.
In this post you will learn about Smith1979’s interesting ties to his musical influences, how he finds visual keys for designs, and what long awaited surprise he has coming 3 months from now!
Categories
Downloading the Package
by Rick Mullenix | Community Manager
It’s a very exciting moment for your business. You’ve been working with some of the designers from 48HoursLogo.com and have decided on the right design to represent you.
So what’s next? How do you finish the contest and get your copy of the files? What type of files will you get? In this post I will go over the steps to complete your contest and download the files of your new logo!
Categories
Blind is Better
By Rick Mullenix | Community Manager
Part of what makes our contests unique is that they are all considered “blind” contests. What this implies is that the designers entering a contest cannot see one another’s submissions. The Contest Holder is the only person, at the beginning, who can see all the entires. The “blind” part of the contests only last for the first two stages, the Qualifying Stage and Select Finalists Stage. Once Finalists are selected, the submissions are viewable for everyone. That will move the contest to the third stage, Design Revisions. In this stage only Finalists can submit designs. The remainder of the contest is viewable to all designers and the Contest Holder.
This format has a few benefits, two of which I would like to highlight:
by Rick Mullenix | Community Manager
We have a very experienced graphic designer to feature this month. Currently sitting atop of 333 wins, and being a Finalist over 950 times, this artist was reluctant at first to get involved with 48HoursLogo.com. But that hesitation was a couple of years ago, and in that time Karjen has used this unique form of crowdsourcing to fine tune his skills.
Karjen grew up in the province of Bacoor, Cavite Philippines and is currently residing in Dubai. At 28 years old he’s married to Jenalyn, and they hope to have children someday in the near future. Multilingual, Karjen speaks Tagalog, English, and a bit of Arabic.
Categories
Is Your Logo A Cliche?
by Rick Mullenix | Community Manager
Have you ever looked at a logo for the first time and thought “I’ve seen that somewhere before?” You probably have. Just as fashion has trends, logo design has trends too. Some of these trends become so popular that over time they fall into clichés. They become standard, expected, and lose their impact – the opposite of what a logo should do.
I’ve created a simple, easy-to-use info-graphic that can help you determine if your logo needs some revising. So what about your logo, does it fall into one of the many design clichés?
Categories
Why SMB Choose Logo Design Contests
Nowadays logo contest sites have become quite popular for small business owners who want to bring their businesses online. Logo contest sites such as 99designs and 48hourslogo have witnessed substantial growth since 2009. However, logo design contest is not a past fever, it is an ongoing transformation in the industry. To explain this, you need to take a look at the advantages and benefits of running a logo design contest.
Logo design Options
Finding a local designer is easy, but finding a good one is not. A single logo designer may bring out several design options for you to choose from. But in a logo contest, several or even dozens of designers compete against each other by designing for you, hence you have much more choices.
Above snapshot shows how many designers you can expect for different price packages a Designcrowd. Suppose each designer create only 2 designs concepts, the customer will get more than 30 design submission by paying for the $240 package.