Thread: Logo Design Wanted Please - Swap or Cash available

Hi folks, I stumbled across your forum when looking for graphic design services through Google - I never would have thought of looking for a forum so, well done to the website owners for their search engine optimization skills.

We will probably be looking for some help with website design in the future but right now I'm looking for a logo for our new company:

Our name is Live It! Adventure and we offer bespoke adventure activity holidays, principally in kayaking and hill walking but will be expanding our portfolio once properly established. The basic premise is that we tailor make an adventure holiday for our clients - when, where and how they want it. We do all the planning and leading of the trip, they just Live It!

Anyway, I have some ideas for a logo based around using our name as a mountain range graphic with Live It! representing the mountain and Adventure representing a river. That said, I've looked at some professional logos tonight and am sure that some of you guys can come up with something better....

So, I'd be grateful if you could PM me your thoughts on what you might be able to offer in terms of design and cost. I have no issue with paying the right price for a good service but am very amenable to the concept of a skill swap if any of you are based around the SW of Engalnd or South Wales and fancy learning kayaking. A full day of tuition including loan of kit would be between £100 and £150 depending on how much prior experience you have so, that gives you an idea of what we could swap; part-swap would be ok too.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Andy

Hi Andy,

Very interested in your project and sent you a PM!

Speak soon,

Ross

Hi Andy,

PM Sent.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks,

Hi Andy,

Just sent you a PM

Hope to hear back from you

Thanks,

Hi Andy

Just sent you a pm.

Rachel

I've also sent you a PM :)

If you're after a cartoon logo I can help you

All,

Many thanks for your PMs and offers of support. As I have had no interest in the skill swap option it looks like I will be paying for the logo but what I am confused about is how the process works in terms of me accepting a design.

If I commission one of you to produce a logo for us do we pay when we accept the design or in advance? I'm a little concerned that we might be paying for something that we might not want, if that makes sense....

Thanks,

Andy

Hello,
A good designer will ask you questions in order to establish a brief (if you haven't already created one.)
These will help the designer extract what you actually have in mind in order to focus them on a style/feel that is relevent.

The designer will/should show you examples of their work and may reveal the value of the project if they feel it is relevent to the level of work you require.

Some form of terms and conditions will/should be issued that will show you what the designer expects from you and also some form of written confirmation of your brief back to you including details of the agreed fee, time line, number of stages/revisions and transfer of intellectual property which you will both sign/agree to.

These plus a general sense of whether you like/get on with the designer should leave you feeling confident that you will get what you're looking for.

Where things break down are when the client doesn't know what he wants and isn't willing to pay much in order to work out what he does want! Designers aren't mind readers and design is always subjective. However, you are asking for professional help and you should trust your designer - as long as you have briefed him adequately.

Good designers like to do a good job. Bad designers don't know how to get the best from a client. Others just want to make a quick buck and you're left with a poor/mediocre design solution.

Hope this helps.

:)

Agree with what the above poster said.

If you've chosen a good designer to work with, you won't be unhappy with the final result. I usually send my clients a document of questions to help me. The answers you'd give will give me all the information I need to get the perfect design for you.