woop01 - 3:18 pm on Jul 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

This thread was started by the submittal I received from a logo designer two days ago. Basically the logo could be described as the same font, same font border, same image, and same layout as a major corporate logo, one you see every time you go to the grocery store. Basically all the guy did was change the name of the company to my website, rotate the image 1/8 of a turn, and change the colors.

This was a project bid out on Elance and he wasn’t the low bidder by any means. We spoke for about 45 minutes about what the site is about and it took him two weeks to return this logo. If this were the first time something like this happened with a logo designer, I would write it off as a bad apple. However, stuff like this seems to happen quite often with my sites.

I think the comments that everyone, regardless of qualifications, is calling themselves professional graphic artists is right on the money. I go to these guys because I know that I’m NOT a graphic artist but I’m not sure if the cost vs. benefit of contracting this work out is positive.