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?

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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

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

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

  TIPYO

  SAD Emotion

  U 2 Brust

  File Drama

  Gepapelle

  Sumo Shirt

  Electric Smiling

  Dermato Logic

  Pozzitiva

  Good Will

  The Happy Cup

  Smile Pathway

  Kids Style

  Blink

  Answer the cry

  Laugh Attic

  King Hams

  Mouserious

  KOAL

  Father joy

  Mobile Ceria

  Nerd smile

  SWAY

  Osmocha

  Crazy Tomato

  Angry Teeth

  Wild Man

  Funkyen

  Zvon Cafe

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

IT Hot News

Ignite Creative

Fire Spark

Cajun Heat

Wild Fire

Persona Fire

Sade Fire

Flame Tweet

Outs Mores

Spark Events

Fire Brand

Fire Embrion

Fuel

Spot Burn

Blunote Lounge

Water Drop

Voda

Ocean Spirit

Ocean Beauty

AWW

Bits n Baths

Future Footprints

Jolli Drop

Rain Cut

TMA

Mostly Water

Lochness

Aqua

Hydro Pol

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You get to enjoy thousands of logos over the net everyday but have you ever noticed those unusual features which make a logo stand out among the crowd. Including unique features to a logo design makes it unforgettable and extraordinary for the viewers. Here I would like to appreciate the idea of punctuating the logos …. commas, colons, semicolons, exclamation marks, question marks and brackets can amazingly decorate your logo designs.

Exhaust

Negative

Person Tage

Sh*talking

Branding

Numerical Man

Look!

Wynne Designs

Luv Talk

Fire Embrion

Enfinitive

Up

Schizophrenic

nhow

Ingenio

Quotekid

Rawik

God Press

Cloud Corner

Inequality Records

Punch Quotes

Earth

What?

studpaper

Talkmore

Enrecell

Web Company

Restyling

Ouch!

Have you ever imagined the earth without colors…how boring and dull our lives would have been. My journey as a graphic designer has helped me learn the symbolic and psychological impact of different colors. Every color has a unique personality and delivers a different message. Therefore, when you get a logo design for your company, be very careful with the color selection. Always pick those colors which reflect the nature and characteristics of your business.

Red, is claimed to be the most commonly used color in logo designs as it easily grabs attention of the viewers. However, red should not be only used for its arresting quality because it says a lot more. It reflects courage, romance, aggressiveness, strength, danger, blood, passion and Christmas.

Yes, my friends, with the soon approaching Christmas, I clicked with the idea of collecting some of the charismatic red logos from the internet. So, let’s join the Christmas celebrations with these inspiring 35 Red Logo Designs”

Shirt Pepper

H3O Creative Studio

Higginson Harvest

Crave Foods

Pasha

Remember

Fhoke

Turn Left

Marker

Play

Bread & Pepper

Shutter Bug

Raco de Catalunya

E2

Cloud of Love

Backword

Taco Mortale

Ketchup

Fork Wire

Minimum

Ant

Pepper Creek

Infinite Love

Love Yarn

M2D

Habit a Click

Negative

Homespun Chili

RAB

Zoo Smart

Law Fare

Poison Apple

Etfi

Jalapenos

Another year has come to an end…. time to wave goodbye to the year 2009. With every ending year, we get to see interesting collections on different blogs, after all its packing time Such compilations rewind all the pleasant and unpleasant happenings of the closing year and it’s always fun to go through them. 

Being in the design community, I couldn’t think of anything better then displaying the major redesigned logos of 2009. Although, famous companies and brands have established identity but to transmit an up-to-date image they keep playing with their logos. We all know that re-branding or logo re-design is no easy task and results can be harmful as well but still we get to see revamped famous logos.

1 ) Telecom

2 ) Play Station 3

3 ) Sunny Delight

4 ) Lays

5 ) Sony Ericsson

6 ) Yale

7 ) Sprite

8 ) Segd

9 ) Pfizer

10 ) Opera

11 ) OMCA

12 ) Msn

13 ) Nickelodeon

14 ) Movistar

15 ) Meiji

16 ) Kraft Foods

17 ) Doctor Who

18 ) Jack in the Box

19 ) France

20 ) Master Card

21 ) Forth Worth Museum of Science and History

22 ) Cadillac

23 ) Discovery Kids

24 ) Chicken Now

25 ) City of Melbourne

26 ) Cheer

27 ) Bavaria

28 ) Audi

29 ) AOL

30 ) Art Gallery of Alberta

31 ) Videocon

32 ) Veggie Tales

33 ) Olympic Air

34 ) Quick Time

35 ) FireFox

With the present logo design awareness I think there is no need to explain the term ‘Negative Space’. To me, interpreting the negative space within a logo design is no child’s play and I deeply respect the designers who succeed coming up with such clever logo designs.

However, one never gets tired of admiring the beauty of negative space logos which skillfully portray a lot of things at the same time. Initially, we found this concept within few logos which are ranked among world’s best logo designs for their uniqueness…FedEx Logo, ED Logo and Yoga Australia Logo. But now, negative space logos have become the most positive aspect of logo design world.

So, for now, let’s just stop praising such logos and treat our eyes with some clever examples.  

Do you agree that negative space logos can be confusing at times and fail to convey the multiple messages to the viewers?

   

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    ]]> http://www.logoblog.org/wordpress/interesting-negative-space-logos/feed/ 33 http://www.logoblog.org/wordpress/c-is-for-cookie-sesame-street-google-logos/ http://www.logoblog.org/wordpress/c-is-for-cookie-sesame-street-google-logos/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:16:18 +0000 Nora Reed http://www.logoblog.org/wordpress/?p=3168 Sesame Street turns 40! The widely known children’s program has come a long way in 40 years, so it deserves a celebration. The show began on November 10th 1969 and is the longest running children’s television program on US TV. Google has proudly modified its logo to commemorate the joyous event with characters from the show. Jim Henson’s Muppet characters bring the educational series to life, adding personality and entertainment to the educational program.

Today was Cookie Monster and yesterday was Big Bird. What other characters will Google feature? Most likely the very popular Elmo will make an appearance.

It’s hard to keep a child’s attention span for very long, but Sesame Street has done a great job keeping kids both entertained and educated. Since the show has been around for so long, even adults have fond memories and favorite characters. The adults have passed on the tradition and perhaps Sesame Street will have another 40 yrs to go! Happy Birthday Sesame Street!

-Nora Reed