Logo Design Contest
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- SirLawrence0
now there is an idea... ;-)
I think I will join the ranks of the insulted.
And why should I not be? Since when do designers deliver jobs to their clients that do not meet the client's quality expectation? Why is it guaranteed to obtain quality by holding a contest between designers who can only enter based on their expertise, when it is the expertise that is questioned?
What insults me is to total lack of understanding of a design process here. The result of a portfolio is the result of a design process: a dialogue between client and designer. An outcome of a working relation, based on numerous factors.
If you are a chef you can only make a chocolate souffle when you have the ingredients. But you are able to make it, whether or not you have the ingredients at hand. Here you are asking for that perfect souffle while questioning the ability of those you ask to make it.
If quality is what you want; you commission a designer - likely based on their expertise and proven record. Then you get to work. Not just the designer, you too. The quality is the result of it. The lack of quality is the lack of process from either one. You can pick from the best portfolio and best designer pool, and still end up with crap. Holding a contest to avoid it is just gambling to see something you like visually, and disregard any process.
If you do out of love for community building: make it a vapor project, drop your prize money thing, make it an open contest, and let everybody play judge.