Sell your logos on iStockphoto
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- monNom0
so what ever happend with this? I can't find a mention on istock's website.
- OSFA0
Think about it this way... this will clean up a few hundred ads on Craigslist....
- akrokdesign0
CP+B, 40 interns can now make a living. woooohooo. lol.
- tOki0
- jimzyk0
oh noes.
ill just pretend i didnt see this...
- AVAVA0
How can 'stock' and 'logo' even be paired up? The concept makes no sense.
Isn't a logo meant to act as an identifier for your business, and more to the point, make your business distinct from others?
No self respecting business will buy a 'stock logo' for crap sake!
God forbid istockphoto ever go on Dragons Den!
- shaking hands is a concept that fits many businesses :)linearch
- digdre0
and samurai designers
- OSFA0
They forgot...
*We only accept logos from Rock Star Graphics Designers
- monNom0
I think I'm starting to change my mind on this one. It sets a decent price floor for 'just a logo' work.
750 istock credits would cost me ~$1,100 CAD today. I can now point to iStock and say: "sure you can get a 'stock' logo for $1,100 bucks, but I can do you one /custom/ for about the same price."
that's decent money for 'just a logo' with no additional input for branding/application, and 1 round of revisions as per iStock's scheme. It also opens up the opportunity to expand the scope of work beyond 'just a logo' and thus increase your billings.
Still have my misgivings about iStock colllecting commisions on potentially stolen work. Interested to see how they deal with that.
- version30
say i develop a logo only for $1500 for a client...
do i the designer then suggest it be sold for $1500 or do I suggest it be sold for $3000also, this kind of work isn't identity branding or production planning either, it is simply take my logo and deface it all over your company with that kid you hired from craigslist
- ukit0
There are also these two fine print items to consider
"When designers upload a file, they will set a recommended price and our inspectors will then make the final pricing decision based on that recommendation.
Royalties – iStock will pay a base royalty rate of 50% per logo design for the first 6 months. We’ll give advanced notice for the rate going forward after that."
- inkpink0
yup i agree with ukit, there's no way they're actually going to try for 700 credits... just keeping critics at bay for now.
and i still don't get how they're going to educate the diff between 10 credit "logo" pages... but that's their problem. i'd imagine all these pages will disappear soon.
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_…
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- ukit0
Maybe you are right - my suspicision is that in reality things will veer more towards the 100 credit rather than 700 credit end of things.
So that's $50/ logo, or $30 after taxes and fees, and not $350. But who knows, I could be wrong.
- you can still withdraw your logo then, I wouldjimbojones
- version30
my point ukit was that companies/businesses are already showing they are comfortable with that price point of usefulness from a "custom" business product purchased online. the logos are of comparable qualities to the templates as well, as you are forced withing their schema.
- version30
i think people would be more drawn to a site like istock if they were going to steal as opposed to a specific designers logo. some sense of getting lost in the crowd like a pickpocket as opposed to going in someones home. how many people steal cds from stores compared to illegal downloading.
it leads to further problems, all brands looking the same though web 2.0 pretty much did that anyway.
the worst aspect is that the same word means something different to each business venture possible with it, this method of designing a solution before the problem is very cookie cutter and bad for the purpose of 'business identity' what good is it if it is not personalised to fit the specific market?
- jimbojones0
well if nobody buys it, it still lies around as it would anyway. and if you're afraid that someone would rip your brilliant logo off... what about your (implemented) logos that are around without a price tag?
- ukit0
I'm doubtful the pricing will really work at that level. I think they are pushing that number out there to placate people like us. Who pays $700 for a piece of stock art?
- jimbojones0
If someone would explain (again and again) to clients that they would buy just a generic icon, which may or may not anyithing to do with the company, as opposed to a thoroughful process of crafting a brand concept, where the logo is just a part of the whole, the price is fine. Dumping rejected icons for $350 is not that bad.