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5 Dangerous signs that your client won’t pay for your logo – Beware!!

Categories: Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Trends, Logo Designers, Logo Inspiration, logo designs
Written By: Nora Reed

Enduring client trouble is every logo designer’s dilemma. While finding more clients is a nuisance itself but dealing with clients that won’t pay for your logo design is even more bothersome. It can be really frustrating for logo designers when they work their entire energy over a certain project and in the end don’t get compensated for their toils and troubles.

While issues over payments and remuneration are a persistent nuisance for logo designers nowadays, we can be sure of one thing…the history of logo design is filled with such cases where clients have made excessive delays in payment or simply didn’t pay the designers at all. Hence it is always better to be prepared for any wrongdoing beforehand.

 

5 Deadly Signs that tell your client won’t pay – Beware:

Although zodiac signs can help you predict your life’s future proceedings, it might not help in telling the signs that your client will not be paying you. Here are five sure shot signs that indicate your clients won’t pay you for your logo design.

 

1. Not answering your calls:

Being busy to answer a call is acceptable but when your client does not respond to your calls over several days, you can be sure that you’ve been stood up. This the most dangerous sign that indicates you’re not going to get paid by your client for your logo design. You might presume, for a few days that the client is stuck in an emergency. But when you don’t get a call or email, it shows that the client does not want to get the job done and compensate you.

 
 

2. Starts showing lack of interest in the project:

All of a sudden, you start noticing that your client isn’t keen in listening to your suggestions and has stopped taking interest in your logo design process. Voila! That’s a clear cut sign that he has lost interest in getting the logo designed and wants to just run away without paying you a penny. You can try testing your client’s enthusiasm over a few days and if it continues, then you can be sure to say good bye to your remuneration.

 
 

3. Makes delay in payments:

When you’re dealing with clients who pay in installments, you can observe some critical signals of not getting the full reimbursement. When your payments are arriving extremely late, you can be sure that your client isn’t willing to pay you the whole fee. Moreover, delay in payments when your client’s check bounces is another dangerous sign that you will not be getting compensated for your labors.

 
 

4. Continuously mocks your designs:

Client criticism is a normal thing for logo designers to bear. But when your client constantly mocks your work saying foolish things like “My 5-year-old daughter can make a better logo design than you”, you can be certain that he is seriously going to ask his daughter. Clients can come up with lame reasons of getting a logo designed even by their neighbor. Hence, the next time you hear you client coming up with silly notions, be prepared to get dumped.

 
 

5. Asks you to postpone the project for a while:

“Hey, could you just hold the logo design for a few days? Rain check! ” When you hear these words from a client, you can be most certain that he’s running away. It’s not the project that’s being held up, it’s you who is being stood up in the middle of your efforts. What happens here is that some clients spend quality time with designers and in the middle of the project, ditch them while robbing them of their remuneration and logo design ideas.

 
 

Practical ways to handle such situations:

Let me clarify that my post is not to create negative opinions against clients. In my next post I will suggest you some practical ways on how to handle such situations where your client won’t pay you.

 
Have you ever faced any of the above signs from your clients? Do you have another sign that can indicate your client won’t pay?
 

20 Exciting Logos from Today’s Logo Designers – Latest collection!!

Categories: Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Designers, Logo Inspiration, logo designs
Written By: Nora Reed

With the passage of time, the logo design industry has evolved into a highly developed and organized field. Although brand identities were created way before the technological age, the new technology age tools and expertise have made designing logos extremely easier and better in quality. Although it is not easy to discover the origins and history of logo design, we can still analyze its future trends and prospects.

We have witnessed many famous logo designers in the past who have stamped their name in the logo design field. But let us focus on contemporary logo designers for a change. The modern-day logo design world is blessed with countless designers who possess immense creative talent and flair. Today’s post features 20 of the most outstanding logos created by the designers of the contemporary logo design world. Have a look at these commendable works.

 

Bop Entertainment

 

Camora

 

Colossal

 

Creative Library

 

Dai Sushi

 

Enable Holding

 

Face to Face

 

Inquiring

 

Loin Bird

 

Live at the Moment

 
 
 

Mark Edmunds Associates

 

Mini Museum Mürren

 

Namyslow Airport

 

New Wave

 

One1

 

Perfect Crowd

 

Push the Bottle

 

ThinkTank

 

Vivid Vogue

 

WYY Water

 
 
Which of the logos displayed the best contemporary work?
   

22 Wave Logos – The “Festoon” Logo Design Trend of 2010

Categories: Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Trends, Logo Inspiration, logo designs
Written By: Nora Reed

Trends are prevalent in every industry and logo design is no exception. Trends and fads enable us to forecast which logo designs will prove to be successful in the year to follow. But the intriguing thing about logos is that you cannot accurately make logo design trend predictions. As the logo design industry flourishes, more and more trends evolve each year.

One of the logo design trends of 2010 is wave logos, referred to as ‘Festoon’ by logolounge. The concept in making these designs is to use waves in such a way so as to create an overlapping and transparent effect. These logos can be used to depict a sign of joyfulness, celebration, calmness and composure.

Here are 22 inspirational logos that perfectly display this phenomenal wave or the festoon effect.

   

SoundWires

 

Plastic Whale

 

MediaWaves

 

Boat and Sport Expo

 

EcoFille

 

HeriCDK

 

Art Work Gwinnett

 

Luna Maya

 

SparroWave

 

WaveStage

 

Jplane

 

GoodWaves

 

PartnerShip

 

Fresh Hanger

 

Creative Waves

 

FireTail

 

io One

 

ColorWave

 

Travel World

 

Vatchr

 

The Zen Web

 

The Point

 
   
Do you think that the wave logo design trend will be successful in 2010?
   
   

30 Expressive Logo Designs – Emotions and Sentiments!!

Categories: Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Inspiration, logo designs
Written By: Nora Reed
 

I believe a logo design to be successful if it has the ability to stir feelings and emotions of a customer. Nowadays, a product is not considered merely as a commodity but a thing of pride and possession. The best of corporate brands are ones that generate feelings among their customers.
The best way to create an emotional bond between your company and your customers is to create a logo design that can touch their intrinsic feelings. We all experience strong feelings that accompany either positive or negative emotions. A day without feeling emotions is impossible to imagine. Just by adding a smile in your logo design, you can express care and affection for your customers. Some of the most widely used expressions in logo design are happy, sad, laughing, crying and angry emotions.
The real art is to integrate a suitable emotion within a logo design in an appropriate manner. Following are 30 inspirational logos that incorporate an emotion within their logo design:

 
 

  Return to joy

Return to joy emotion
 

  TIPYO

TIPYO
 

  SAD Emotion

SAD emotion
 

  U 2 Brust

U 2 Brust
 

  File Drama

File Drama
 

  Gepapelle

Gepapelle
 

  Sumo Shirt

Sumo Shirt
 

  Electric Smiling

Electric Smiling
 

  Dermato Logic

Dermato Logic
 

  Pozzitiva

Pozzitiva
 

  Good Will

Good Will
 

  The Happy Cup

The Happy Cup
 

  Smile Pathway

Smile Pathway
 

  Kids Style

Kids Style
 

  Blink

Blink
 

  Answer the cry

Answer the cry
 

  Laugh Attic

Laugh Attic
 

  King Hams

King Hams
 

  Mouserious

Mouserious
 

  KOAL

KOAL
 

  Father joy

Father joy
 

  Mobile Ceria

Mobile Ceria
 

  Nerd smile

Nerd smile
 

  SWAY

SWAY
 

  Osmocha

Osmocha
 

  Crazy Tomato

Crazy Tomato
 

  Angry Teeth

Angry Teeth
 

  Wild Man

Wild Man
 

  Funkyen

Funkyen
 

  Zvon Cafe

Zvon Cafe
 
 

30 Water and Fire Logos – A hot & cool combination!!

Categories: Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Inspiration, logo designs
Written By: Nora Reed

Creating a logo design that revolves around a particular concept is a constant challenge for a professional logo designer. The proper arrangement of design elements is vital in a great logo design.

Fire and water are two extremes of nature that can never co-exist. But I’ve always had a fascination towards both fire and water. Each of them has its own positive and negative aspects. Water, with its beauty, embodies a feeling of tranquility and serenity and at the same time it has the power to unleash rage and fury. The same goes with fire. Appropriate use of fire provides us warmth and light, but in some instances it backfires.

But don’t worry. Both can cause no physical harm when used in a logo design ;) . Now let us see fire and water effects in inspirational logo designs. :)

   

ArtFire Films

Art Fire Logo
 

IT Hot News

IT Hot News Fire Logo
 

Ignite Creative

Ignite Creative  Fire Logo
 

Fire Spark

Fire Spark Fire Logo
 

Cajun Heat

Cajun Heat Fire Logo
 

Wild Fire

Wild Fire Logo
 

Persona Fire

Persona Fire Logo
 

Fire Starter

Fire Starter Fire Logo
 

Flame Tweet

Flame Tweet Fire Logo
 

Outs Mores

Outs Mores Fire Logo
 

Spark Events

Spark Events Fire Logo
 

Fire Brand

Fire Brand Fire Logo
 

Fire Embrion

Fire Embrion Fire Logo
 

Fuel

Fuel Fire Logo
 

Spot Burn

Spot Burn Fire Logo
 
 

Blunote Lounge

Water Logo
 

Water Drop

Water Logo
 

Voda

Water Logo
 

Ocean Spirit

Water Logo
 

Ocean Beauty

Water Logo
 

AWW

Water Logo
 

Bits n Baths

Water Logo
 

Future Footprints

Water Logo
 

Jolli Drop

Water Logo
 

Rain Cut

Water Logo
 

TMA

Water Logo
 

Mostly Water

Water Logo
 

Lochness

Water Logo
 

Aqua

Water Logo
 

Hydro Pol

Water Logo
 
 
   
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