Selling logo
$5000 OBO
no lowballs
http://i.imgur.com/YsEo5AM.jpg

Take it from a Graphic/Web Designer.


My guess, a chunk of the cost is mainly licensing. If they didn't create the font themselves, they have to pay for licensing to use the font commercially and at the scale of how commercial the font will be used.

where is the city getting all this extra money from to spend on useless dull designs like this crap?

It's called a wordmark. Logo Design 101: The Wordmark

Why did you think our property taxes got hike again? :fuuuuu:

8K to license the font or not, I'd take more pride into designing a logo. Especially when it's for CoV, an opportunity like this does not come often. Do a great job, everyone would admire your work and you'd get more exposure for business.

I seriously wonder who the agency is, because this would just bring bad reputation. I guess it's good that they remain behind doors lol.

foi request everything and all the discussions regarding the logo before they delete everything

:lawl:

Current logo is beautiful. No need to replace.

its ok.. thats a bargain... you want to know how much SFU paid to get the new logo?

White letters in a red box...? Try hundreds of thousands....

Oh, don't get me started on that retarded logo... As an SFU alumni, I was furious. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the old crest / coat of arms, and I thought this infatuation with "modern" and "minimalist" styles was pretty stupid.

But that SFU logo change wasn't the only time when SFU messed with its crest / coat of arms. ~10 years ago, they also tweaked their old coat of arms as well, and I didn't appreciate that either.

http://www.sfu.ca/archive-sfunews/fi.../old-crest.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...at_of_arms.png

Top was the old. Bottom is the current revised one.

^ probably for PC reasons they were pressured to remove the cross of the old CoA

back to CoV, i'm trying to understand how the existing logo confuses the ESL population?

I get that 8k is probably peanuts for new branding but hell, if that money could've been spent plowing a neighbourhood or two instead...

did a quick search....from an outsider perspective, logo biz seems like scam biz

research and reference can probably be easily grouped together as is sketching and reflection\

and who the hell pays $700 on PS? it's $10/mo


http://justcreative.com/2008/05/22/w...ost-5-dollars/

knowing how Canadian politician like to nuthug China so much...yep it would've been done in simplified

As a designer, research and concept development takes up most of the time.

I've followed justcreative when I was in school, great designer. That article was written in 2008, Adobe Cloud was not around during that time lol.

If logo business is a scam, everyone would be doing it thinking they're designers.



Speaking of city logo rebrands, this one is by far my most favourite one:

http://www.behance.net/gallery/276451/city-of-melbourne

I can't believe it got voted in at 7-2

The news was pointing out that they were already using the new logo on publications in city hall even before the logo was voted in... obviously they made the decision long before the vote

FailFish

I'd have to say the practice doesn't surprise me at all. Moonbeam has been known to hold public hearings in one evening, but already have all the construction work scheduled to go the next morning. (It was some bike lane construction thing in DT.) For him, any public consultation or formal procedures are strictly procedural.

I've spent a lot of time working on capital projects for various Governments. You see the end product of the work but you're not seeing all the concept/brief stuff, design research, market testing and the completely ridiculous amount of client coordination that these projects take. Considering my personal dealings at CoV at $8k these poor sobs would be making pennies per hour.

looks like the new shitty logo has been approved....... sigh

City of Vancouver approves new logo, not all councillors approve - NEWS 1130

So why did they need that new logo?? :confused:

They could have easily held a contest for people to design a logo for free. The winner will be decided by vote online and the winner will get an cert or a metal from City of Van.

A lot less cheaper, more creative ideas, and it encourage more arts studends to come out.

If that's a font that needs to be licensed and it's part of the $8k then maybe that isn't so bad, but from the sounds of it I'm not sure that's the case.

haha this

The amount of bitch moaning and nit picking at some of these projects make me question the level of sanity that these people have. I've seen straightforward projects be bogged down because someone doesn't like a certain detail and will propose additional time discussing useless detail only to turn around and say, "yeah, ok, maybe the original idea wasn't bad" after wasting everyone's time.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/s...catello%20flag

I'd say the pocatello logo looks better than ours.

Might has well have used Comic Sans

Because this whole thing is a joke...

how does that even count as a "Logo"?

I guess someone's pocket was feeling a bit empty...