Keep this in mind. The guarantee of this prize is $480. Keep in mind lots of creative people work with organization. Knowing the level of difficulty we purposely chose to award a prize of $480 (500 minus listing). The chosen design will need to be that of almost spectacular. We are pretty open for the most part to submissions and will extend this contest past the due date. Any questions please feel free to ask. CRS
CRS, can you please comment to see if we are getting close or in the right direction? I know there are ratings, but I don't want to keep pounding out on the same concept if it has no chance.
So far #104 by expression is one that is being heavily considered as well as #54 by Elanontia and a couple that Marius submitted. Bonic , Keegan and Gurjinx have also submitted great concepts. There are alot of great concepts submitted overall and we will be making a final selection in less than 4 days. So far the entries have been great! We would like to see where the next level to go with this is. Happy Designing! CRS
Yes. It would only be fair. I was told within the last few minutes that the UWP Music should officially be incorporated in the design. I think the fair thing would be to allow until Jan 20 th to allow designers to submit their work. Please contact me directly if there are any questions. CRS
Please retain all the rights to your submission as they will not be used in any way. You've asked this question before and we have gone back and forth with this... IT IS GUARANTEED by us... Your submitted work is not that of a $480 dollar prize. Good Luck in your other contests.
Your rude comments are not appreciated. Your a rip off and are taking advantage of the creative artists here. Your a shyster. Just because YOU personally guarantee a contest, it does not mean that it is guaranteed through LogoBids.... which IS a guaranteed contest. I feel sorry for anyone who continues to work on your logo... it is pointless. I do not see any designs here (no offense to any of the designers) that would be worthy of replacing the current professionally designed logo that is currently in place at the website (which that designer was probably paid a few thousand dollars.
Your prize money has NOT been sent to Logo Bids for safe keeping, so you can "dissapear" at antime with no skin off your nose (just like you have done with the shatter jaw contest"
So, if you say my design is not worthy of the prize, would you not be putting down the other designers as well? "Open mouth, insert foot"
I would suggest a warning to all of the other designers. You can see how rude CRS has been.... don't let him take advantage of you! He will keep extending the contest... then dissapear... I guarantee it. I would not doubt he has this logo contest running else where, which is probably why he has NOT guaranteed this contest with Logobids. I am reporting this user to the Logobids admin as I feel he is taking advantage of the professional services we are offering here. BEWARE! i don't want to come back and say I told you so.... just looking out for my fellow designers!
No actually your designs are not worth $480. If that is considered rude than I apologize however for $480 I want to get what we are looking for. I am not a shyster. I have paid several designers on this site for submissions that were never even used by us. So for you to say that I rip people off .. well that is certainly not the case. I have been straight forward with you in the past and if you wish to not enter any other contest than by all means that is your choice. You sound like a bitter designer and there are plenty on non bitter creative artists here.
Yes, there are plenty of non bitter creative artists here.... give it about another month of extending this contest.... or you dissapear... then the bitterness will happen.
Ok, just to prove me wrong.... what designers on this site have been paid by CRS as he states, and for what contest? (only wanting the designers to speak up, not CRS)
Good Luck to you. I don't feel the need to prove anything to some one who submits substandard work, however I am sure some one will speak up. Sorry if you have had less than stellar dealings in the past!
Go ahead and keep slapping me in the face CRS..... I LIKE IT! (you shyster)
I have reported this contest to the admins (hopefully they will do something... I know they are busy!)
ALSO... I have sent an email to the Up with people website. I believe CRS is possibly posing to them as a designer and submitting our work to them as his own, and probably getting paid three times as much as what he is offering us (this is called outsourcing... or crowdsourching, appears to be the same from his other contests as well)!
I have sent the below email the the Up with people people.....
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Greetings,
Are you aware of your logo redesign involved in this contest? The contest holder CRS has been quite rude and I believe he is taking advantage of designers. I feel he may also be posing as a designer and using our designs from the contest as his own?
No one is posing as anything.. And you definitely don't have any thing to worry about.. No one is using any of your recycled designs. Good Luck to you!
Just to show CRS's train of thought... I happen to have an extensive portfolio of many years... and see how he is downing my work.... imagine what he would say about you if you realized he is the shyster he is.
If my work is soo inferrior... why did you leave these messages below? I am sure you are leading on everyone else as well! I will continue to try and contact the Up with people people to let them know what you are up to. How much are they paying you for our designs anyway????
This was posted to one of my designs......
http://www.logobids.com/contests/discussion/161/187/2150
Sure. Yours are more of a redesign to what is currently being used so based on how they feel on the other ones ( not submitted by you) I can tell you which direction they want to proceed with.
CRS
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From: gurljinxed
Date: January 08, 2009 - 6:38 PM
Thank you for your comments. I will submit new revisions.
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From: CRS
Date: January 08, 2009 - 2:02 PM
#102 looks good. I would keep the globe but use a different font. You have alot of good ones!
#84 Is also one that works well, maybe with some different fonts.
CRS
So...... you ARE telling me that the comments you sent regarding my designs ARE bogus! You never intended to consider my designs... even though you lead me to believe so??? GOTCHYA!
I do not by ANY means believe my designs are superior... I just know bullshit when I hear it!
Wow. I hadn't looked at the thread to see what was being said.
Gurl: I understand your frustration because this type of thing happens way too often. We spend valuable time conceptualizing and creating just to see a contest end without a winner. Until ALL contests become PREPAID, this is what we have to cope with and hope the contest holder is legit and will follow through until the end.
CRS: Surely you understand the frustration we feel when this happens. Guarenteeing the contest is always a sign of good faith and more designers will not only enter your contest, but will also provide more revisions than normal.
I am only upset because CRS had to down my work.... cannot walk away from that.... if he did not care for it, he could have just accepted my retracting of my designs.... it was truly not necessary to add the rude comments.
SO.... how much is Up With People paying YOU for OUR design CRS? I may have just fell off the turnip truck.... but I am not blind!
If you want to know how much??? NOTHING! How about that? I am actually paying to have this done because I believe in this concept. I can paste several emails of people that say how great it has been to work with us in the past however gurjinxed you don't have to worry about any of your submittals. Yes that was aimed directly at you as I am not hidding anything. I respect creative people however I will not have a disgruntled person question me. Again good luck to you in the future
"No one who submits work like gurljinxed will win this. Correct.. Do you really think your designs are that superior??? Enough of this! "
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I think that gurljinxed is going to high with this matter, but:
1) First of all, she is an honest designer and a good designer. CRS, you don't have arguments to say that their designs are bad only because you're upset. Their designs are much better than some of the designs you've choosen with **, *** or ****. At least she uses Illustrator or Freehand to do their job... So she has reasons to feel offended.
2) You said that you don't want to guarantee the contest because you can't pay with paypal and you need to pay via Credit Card. But you've extended the contest and that costs money. I ask myself which method you used to pay for the extensions of the competition if you haven't used paypal or credit card...
3) At the start of the contest, as well as Gurljinxed said, I wonder about the need of change a good logo (the one on the UPW web). At the middle of the contest, I wonder about the need of change a good logo for a bad logo because some of the chosen with **, ***, ****. And I decided to resign but later I come back and I don't know why... Sure, I'm not telling that my designs are better than others, I'm telling that there are designs from other designers without rating or with a minor rating that are surely better than others.
4) ... etc.
So, I think that's enough for today. Guljinxed please tell us what the people from UPW says about the contest.
Then why did you lead me on to think I may have had a chance? I have several designs with 4 star ratings.... so you lied? How many other designers are you doing this to?
Very good points JPA.... thanks for being the level headed one in this conversation lol! If I do get a response from the UWP people, I will definately post it here. Hopefully they will see this contest and we can see what happens from there..
GOOD luck to everyone who chooses to continue to work on this contest.... 480 IS alot of money... especially these days.. but is a shame that it has to be dangled infront of ups like a carrot... sigh... anywho... GOOD LUCK DESIGNERS!
And don't bring marius into this... he is a good spirit and yes, a good designer.. marius... as well as all of the other designers ROCK! that is why i feel ALL of us should not be taken advantage of by YOU.
I can answer that for Marius. When I ran the Overdrive contest EalaÃonta was the chosen winner. That was the design that worked best for our needs so therefore that was the chosen design. There were a lot of designs for that contest that were just great!! I thought it would be a waste to not use some of those other submittals at one point. Marius submitted an entry that I thought would be great to possibly use at some point (in print) for something down the line for my customers. I offered him money for one design, and I even offered money to another designer for a design that we will never use, but I thought it would be wise to buy now and in the future if we decide to use it on an advert or internal document; then we already have it. I even offered to pay EalaÃonta twice for the winning design when I found out that LogoBids had not paid EalaÃonta. We obviously got it sorted out but the point is I pay artists for their work. Bottom Line. There were some great concepts and I paid for them. That simple. Any questions you can reach me directly logos@povlaw.com
CRS, I think it's too obvious to tell the name... as well as it's too obvious who is using Photoshop (or Microsoft Paint maybe?) on each contest, but I've speaked with you about some of this things starting the contest and I think that we will have a dejavu if we speak over the same matter again...
It's not that the contest is guaranteed anymore... it is that the contest holder is rude in his comments. I withdrew my submissions because I did not want to keep designing for a contest that was going to keep being extended over and over. With my actions, I was told by the contest holder that my designs where inferior anyway and would not have won (although quite a few of my designs had 4 star ratings and had good comments on my work from the contest holder.
I just believe that the contest holder, as well as the designers should have manners. In my case, sure I went a bit far, but think it was justly deserved.
I am trying to follow the discussion about this contest; and very disappointed to see those kind of "impolite" threads written by designers or the contest holder. Up to now, a total of 141 designs have been submitted (some eliminated or retracted) and I think, the main reason for this high amount of submissions is the price money of 480 dollars.
Here are the designers, and the number of designs he/she submitted for this contest: gurljinxed (34), Marius Uhlig (21), jpa (20), Ealaionta (9), keegan_re (9), Bonic (8), Kallgfx (7), Rwspillmann (7), kaimeister (6), xpressions (6), poor1 (5), ysh (3), pmcdarby (2), alemundo (1), blaberus (1), CnSGD (1), heli350 (1)
Of course, people are wasting time and labor trying to design a logo and at the end they'd want to see a winner for sure. There's no problem with this. I'll critic about the LogoBids Team for the method of submitting designs & the evaluation process.
1) Allowed number of designs: Here, everyone is allowed to design and post as many designs as they wish. My idea is that, this is a negative factor for those who really want to "design" something and waste time on it. Because, when I see an announcement of a contest which has started, if I like it, I start to think hard on it, make reserach, gather information, work about colors and so on. The final product is such a "distilled" droplet of all these process. But when I enter the site to submit my work; I see that tens or maybe hundreds of submissions have been made, and many of them are slightly different alternatives of previous ones. Not trying to offend those who submit many designs; but I believe that there must be a limit; and when the designer want to add more designs after exceeding the limit, he/she must retract a previous version and then do so.
2) The method of the contest: Designers submit logos, contest holders rate them or not, and this goes on forever. And at the end, if there's no winner (which is a possible result) or the contest is extended many times (possible) and the contest holder declares about a guarantee and there's still no result; this is no good. For both the designers and the contest holders. We must be able to approach the situation from different angles. Because "taste of art" is something you can not calculate. Rating the design is a good method but does not help the designer to continue on the correct direction. The designs which have "no" relation to what the contest holder wanted, or which are obvious to be bad copies of other ones, must be eliminated directly by the contest holder; and the users which make plagiarism must be eliminated or warned by moderation. Maybe on the contest page, there can be two columns; one for the designs on good direction (wants) and another one for the designs which make no sense (don't wants). These are just respectful, humble ideas of mine, just for the good of the designers. Nothing else.
3) And the last: as the method of submitting & evaluating is improved by contribution of all people gathered here, everyone will feel relieved. No one will think that his/her work or labor is abused/misused. And I no more think to participate in a contest if all the contests on this site will be the place for poor quality arguments.
Thanks to everyone having patience to read this post.
Blaberus, Let me first off thank you for sharing your thoughts and opinions with us. I agree with some of your points, to a degree. Let me just share a few points with you as well. $480 is a lot of money to be awarded for a design. I think it is the highest awarded on this site, up to date. I did this for a couple of reasons. 1- We are looking for something that is great and unique. 2- It doesn't matter to me how many designs a designer submits. There couldn't be enough if you ask me.. at the same token there are plenty of designs submitted that we would never consider. I've seen quite a few that were way off, a few that were "inspired by others, and some that are actually great. That being said I'll go back to why I used this site in the first place. I believe in this concept. I think it is great to put a bid on a piece of work that is subjective. Now to tell a little bit about my self.. I have started 7 start ups and every single one of them I used an agency. One in Canada, One in Los Angeles, One in New York, One in Philadelphia, and 3 in Miami. What I did not like about them was.. the process. I really don't want to focus on this. I am looking for a design that will work for what is needed. Now.. I have 2 offices. I run my sales office out of a 6,000 square foot facility and our partner has a 30,000 square foot facility with a team of graphic designers. You might ask your self " Why doesn't he have his team work on what he wants?" Well that is just it. I can but I would rather not pull them off what they are doing to do something for me that has no bearing in their every day operations.What they do has nothing to do with stationary or logo creations. Ok that being said, again why would I go with this process again? I don't employ any one locally to work with me full time on any of my needs. Every thing I request is handled on a per project basis. Now why do I like this concept so much??? Well, where else can I get multiple designers from countries all around the world to work on a chosen project?? Having different people from different countries (with different influences) in my opinion makes for a truly greater chance of having a unique concept, regardless of who is working on it. Again I think that the concept of this site is great, the execution might need some fine tuning. I hope that for $480 we can find a concept some where in all of this... a great concept! That is what we are looking for.
I agree with blaberus that the taste of art is something that you can not calculate. In determining the winner we are simply looking for what works best, over all. The process does seem a bit distilled but I think the possibilities are end- less. There are so many great designers on here and we look forward to working with these great designers.
I don't know how the market on the USA works, but in Spain, if someone wants a great logo must paid around 1000 euro and up for it ($1350). So -and I'm not point directly to you, CRS, I generally speak) I don't understand this contest holders that wants a great logo for $400 and less for $100 with a 4 days process. So I think this contest must be a 4 weeks contest from the beginning. Contest holders must understand that professional designers that charges $300 - $1000 for a logo can't do his best job for $100 only for his own interest...
The better prize here was $600 on the Innovative Scheduling contest and was a great contest with feedbacks, great concepts, competition and fair play.
I understand you, Blaberus. But most of the contest holders don't provide any feedback and sometimes the best thing to show your logo is to do multiple versions. I recognize that sometimes I do almost sketches of my logos cause I'm learning to calibrate the work I do and the offered prize in this contests, but also sometimes I cross that line and I'm offering logos that costs more than $100 only because the time working (other times I cross the line because I sympathize with the contest holder or with the theme of the contest).
As I said, I understand you. Your suggestions are good... but unfortunately there are a lot of great -and logical- suggestions in this site that stay there from months ago. If this site had a dedicated moderator and knew throughout the design process would be much easier for designers and for contest holders.
I've paid more than $600 before for a logo that I hated. I've paid $400 before for a logo that I really like. So the price is subjective just like the artwork. $480 is extremely fair for a logo of this caliber on this site.
Off course, to buy a chinesse shoes for $3 and to buy an Armani shoes for $180 is subjective too. The chinesse shoes could be much better looking than the Armani ones... but the chinesse shoes are made with bad leather and cardboard... so, do you really think that the chinesse shoes are better?
Do you know "Bassat Ogilvy"? Bassat Ogilvy is the greatest publicity/design group in Spain and one of the greatest and better publicity/design groups of the world. I don't really know exactly how much cost a corporative image designed by B.O., but it must be over 3.000 - 6.000 euro (no jokes). If you contract B.O. you're contracting experience. They do for you an study for your product image and you pay for the study. Later, they show you a Logo; if you don't like the logo, they present a review; if you don't like the review, etc, charging every time a little more until they give you the study you have paid for and recomend you to find another design studio. I don't really know how the market works on the USA, but in Europe customers have the possibility of turn down a concept/logo/idea at least for 3 times. If you pay for a logo that you hate it's because you want to pay for a logo that you hate... So yes, you can hate the Armani shoes, but the Armani shoes are made with quality leather...
Ogilvy charges a lot more than that in the U.S. I have been to their offices in New York many times. I hope you are not comparing your self to that firm in any way or to Armani. Armani costs a lot more than that also, as I wear their suits and shoes. Simply stated I know there is great pool of talent to choose from that I feel this type of format offers. CRS
If you can afford to wear Armani, CRS, then why are you not paying Ogilvy?!?! Obviously you can afford Ogilvy since you do wear such "high class" duds!
Yes I wear Armani , so do a lot of other people. That is beside the point and a bad analogy by the way.
Having worked with big firms in the past, there are quite a few similarities. Quite often the best designer is not always the best designer that works on your project. The project manager chooses whom they feel the client will best work with or whom they feel which designer will best represent the company. Also if you are new designer starting out you may never ever interact with a client directly unless you have proven to either a project mgr or a senior designer that you have contributed substantially towards a clients end result... To bypass all of this... that is why this format is great! It doesn't matter who the designer is, every one contributes equally. Obviously the chosen design is awarded the "winner".. (which the name 'winner' is a misnomer) This I feel lets some one get an unbiased concept.. versus what a design agency feels best represents them (distinctively branding themselves) in the view of their chosen client(s)
This just shows how much you care about designers. I did enter your contest but retracted my design after it was obvious what you were doing. This much on "ever"
I have no idea what you are referring to. Your designs would not have been chosen at any rate so it is not as if you lost anything. I have worked with plenty of designers in the past so saying that I don't care about designers is not accurate. The prize money will be awarded once all votes have been accounted for.
hey Crs just wanted to drop you a line to let you know what a fuck up you are. and i hope that your happy wasting all these artist time. I sure hope these tough economic times fuck you so hard in the ass. cause u truly are the biggest piece of shit.
I should be flattered that you created an Alias to conceal your identity however... it is irrelevant. Your entitled to your opinions , not facts. Congratulations to the prize winners!
alrighty, so there is a winner, or two. but that aside.
to CRS- I am sorry for the insults.
How ever i was fueled by rage at that point. i hate to see people's time wasted and lookin at all these other comments about crowd sourcing and such made my blood boil. so for that I'm sorry you had to experience my pist off side. But you really need to help us out and let us know what is going on. we heard from you like once.
Thanks.