Logo Design?

Wow. Ok. I looked at your logo samples. By all means, charge $L100 for them. I don't mean to be rude about this, but it's going to come off as it because I'm going to be brutally honest with you. That and I feel the need to defend my work and prices, seeing as you are basically trying to take any prospective customers I might have had with your little plug there.

You can charge $L100 because your logos aren't by any means professional. It's simply not good at all. You over-use and abuse layer effects like drop shadowing and many of your images appear to be clipart or pulled right off a Google Image Search. If they aren't, and you actually created them, they still look like clipart and then might as well be clipart. It'd be like a 24k gold statue of Elvis. It may have been made expensively, but it's still tasteless.

Listen people, the truth about the world is you get what you pay for; if you want to pay $L100 for a logo, expect to get one that's worth that. $25 USD is squat for a professional logo, as many people have noted on this forum. Owning a pirated copy of Photoshop doesn't make you a graphic designer.

I'm a professional and won't undersell my skill like that. My willingness to do this is only to make a little extra spending money and to build up a good portfolio for my future as a designer. I'm prepared to take a risk and give this a go to see how it works out. I know there are people out there who would pay what I'm asking, and it is in all honesty an extremely reasonable price. If you don't think it is, that's cool. I'm not demanding you buy a logo from me. I'm only suggesting it will indeed be worth the money. People remember logos. McDonald's, Nike, Mac, and so on. Make it so people will remember yours. I'll be sure to announce when Thrive Studio is open for business.

In the meantime, ask yourself: Which would you rather have representing you?





~Page Witte

In the meantime, ask yourself: Which would you rather have representing you?

Page, if you're going to take the professional executive approach, trying to market to the high-end SL business owners is the only way you'll get the kind of money you're after. Any mom-and-pop businessperson in SL that's starting out and trying to run a business as an experiment isn't going to want to pay much for a logo.

Honestly, I don't particularly like either one. Yours is too simplistic, and the other one looks like every theme park's ride signs.

I'm going to second what Doubledown said. You're not going to get a very healthy reception to something like this on the forums, so go around and talk to existing business owners, particularly those that don't have very well-made logos (ONE comes to mind). Small shops and start-ups generally aren't going to have the money to afford your services, and/or they're not going be able to justify paying $25USD for an in-game logo.

These logos can be (and look like they were) created using http://www.thelogocreator.com/ ?? Is that right? I have that software and noticed the fonts and built in graphics from the program. LOL

If you want to produce logos, software like this is great to use. However, if you want to produce high quality original logos for top price, you'll want to use Photoshop or something that which will allow you free creative manipulation.

If I saw these as your sample logos myself, I'd just go buy the software for $39.95. If you are going to charge $25 USD per logo (L$7500), I'd want something I couldn't do myself. I can buy that software and do this myself.

Personally, I have seen that "JK" font which comes woth the Logo Creator enough to know how it was created. LOL

Best of luck to you though. You definitley are motivated!

I'm not sure if I'm reading this correctly or not, but I make all my logos from scratch in Illustrator and Photoshop. Mine aren't created by anything other than my own hands. If you're referring to the other guy's, then yeah. The JK one was an example of his, not mine. I just wanted to clear that up. Also, I am a graphic designer in real life. It's what I'm in school for and I've already completed four full years and have one more semester to graduate. This is actually one of my motivations for doing this; I need to build up a portfolio of actual work and not just school projects I've done. Slowly but surely I have had real world jobs already.

As for my logo being too simplistic? That's the general idea with a logo. It's supposed to be simple and easy to understand at a quick glance. Look at Second Life's logo. Pretty simple. You can't please everyone, of course, and I wasn't aiming to please anyone other than myself with the Thrive Studio logo because it's my logo. I wouldn't expect anyone to want to buy that one, it's just an example of work.

If you were a customer and wanted something more complex, that's fine. Although I'd totally warn you that complex and flashy logos aren't good logos. That dragon certainly looks cool, but it isn't a great logo. A tribal style dragon isn't sensual. It's fierce and powerful. It makes an eye catching poster, and everything else works well, but the dragon doesn't fit. So unless there's supposed to be some kind of juxtaposition there to create tension between the feminine script and masculine dragon that I'm missing, it doesn't work.
I appreciate the feedback and your input on the matter. As I said, I'm going to go ahead and go with what I'm doing to see how it works. And as I said, if you don't want to pay that much, that's cool. I'm only continuing to post here on the forum because I feel like I need to defend myself for some reason.

Who are you to say what MY logo should like? Sensual is my name hence Sensual Designs & Animators, it doesnt mean everything I do or make is soft and sensual... Thats like me saying Thrive Studio must be about a leaf or thriving for business? *shrugs*

Actually, the intention was about thriving your business. Great work, you understood it! I'm not saying what your logo SHOULD look like. I'm merely giving my opinion, which you freely gave concerning mine.

You're more than entitled to your opinion, although now I think you're just being rude because I critiqued your logo. Please don't take a critique personally. It's just my opinion and I've been taught to do it.

I am not being rude... I am being honest, I didn't see a single logo on your page that caught my eye, in fact I can't even tell you about one of them, thats how little it drew attention to me, except for yout Thrive Studio logo because I sat and stared awhile comparing yours and the JK logo and seen no difference in quality. Please note I said I didn't l think your work was not worth that much USD before you said anything about my logo

Woo-hoo! I'm a graphic designer in rl, and I thought, meh, this is like taking work into play, I'd rather learn something new. So I didn't volunteer any interest. Now I'm glad I didn't. :/

However, since I love Gurl6, I may just loosen up an throw my hat in that ring.

maybe I am thinking differently but that is more of a poster or sign then a logo...

hehe yes that looks like a fun project, thought about entering myself even though I have never made a logo before

This is a joke, not a logo or a poster or a sign.

If you saw no difference in quality, then this discussion is over. Feel free to have the last word because it isn't worth my time.

As for my logo being too simplistic? That's the general idea with a logo. It's supposed to be simple and easy to understand at a quick glance. Look at Second Life's logo. Pretty simple. You can't please everyone, of course, and I wasn't aiming to please anyone other than myself with the Thrive Studio logo because it's my logo. I wouldn't expect anyone to want to buy that one, it's just an example of work.