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I do represent your target audience, looking for a logo designer right now. Besides login issue, already mentioned here, i think the video is too long, you sho

by k0ban 17y ago

I do represent your target audience, looking for a logo designer right now. Besides login issue, already mentioned here, i think the video is too long, you should fit into 30-40 seconds with real example. I am missing portfolio, so can't estimate quality of the service you are providing. Anyway I submitted request, will see what will be an outcome.

JohnIdol 17y ago
For now (just released the first beta) we only have a slideshow on the home page - we're working on a gallery though as it's definitely needed. Good luck with your logo! :)
- k0ban 17y ago
  Slideshow is better than video, and out of 20-30 logos I might like just one. Comparing to logoworks quite low rate. I wouldn't submit information if I'd saw this portfolio. Keeping in mind that you need iterations and several logos to choose from, I don't expect something valuable for me as a result. Of course we will see, but still ... I wouldn't use this service if found it not on HN. Have some idea for you. You have two types of services: 1. Draw it by yourself - which works, for some people 2. Services where you find designer, who will do it for you. But first you need to find a right designer. This is done or by looking thru portfolio of designers or by contest, where designers might or might not participate. So the problem is to find a right designer. This could be done by asking me to choose several logos to identify what I am looking for a match to the designer that works in that style. It will save my time to find a right person (since I can't even formulate how the logo should look like) and save designer's time.
  - JohnIdol 17y ago
    Your point is perfectly understandable and certainly represents a wide slice of the market - which happens not to be the slice of the market we are ideally targeting. We don't want to steal customers from logoworks, 99designs or other similar (very useful & well thought) services; we are trying something new here, pursuing an experimental approach to logo design, limiting to an extreme the user input in order to force the customer to get creative with tags - which could open the door to hopefully surprising results from our designers. That's the deed - if you're not quite happy you roll the dice and go again if you want, it's free. Along the lines of the stir-fried culinary metaphor, we'd like to offer quality stuff on-the-go. This comes from the need of a category of people (and you can pull myself in) who don't wanna bother going through revisions and all that jazz. This might not be the right service for you, and we won't try to convince you otherwise. If you're craving for Chinese take-away you won't go to the French restaurant. If you need a twitter account you won't get yourself a blog. And so forth. Said so, your feedback and ideas are certainly constructive and valuable - thanks! P.S. The video is known problem (thanks for pointing out). You not liking the logos in the slideshow ... given the subjectivity of the topic it's bound to be a discussion with no end! :-)
    - k0ban 17y ago
      Got the logo, which had a good concept (idea), but won't fit to mine design because of colors. So it didn't work for me.
      - JohnIdol 17y ago
        The idea here is that if you're not happy with it you can re-submit (there's no official limit on the number of times you can request the same logo) and see what happens - Also you can get creative with tags (i.e. #as_previous_design #no_blue #etc) - being free it won't cost you. You might wanna give it a shot :-)

by k0ban 17y ago

JohnIdol 17y ago

For now (just released the first beta) we only have a slideshow on the home page - we're working on a gallery though as it's definitely needed. Good luck with your logo! :)

k0ban 17y ago
Slideshow is better than video, and out of 20-30 logos I might like just one. Comparing to logoworks quite low rate. I wouldn't submit information if I'd saw this portfolio. Keeping in mind that you need iterations and several logos to choose from, I don't expect something valuable for me as a result. Of course we will see, but still ... I wouldn't use this service if found it not on HN. Have some idea for you. You have two types of services: 1. Draw it by yourself - which works, for some people 2. Services where you find designer, who will do it for you. But first you need to find a right designer. This is done or by looking thru portfolio of designers or by contest, where designers might or might not participate. So the problem is to find a right designer. This could be done by asking me to choose several logos to identify what I am looking for a match to the designer that works in that style. It will save my time to find a right person (since I can't even formulate how the logo should look like) and save designer's time.
- JohnIdol 17y ago
  Your point is perfectly understandable and certainly represents a wide slice of the market - which happens not to be the slice of the market we are ideally targeting. We don't want to steal customers from logoworks, 99designs or other similar (very useful & well thought) services; we are trying something new here, pursuing an experimental approach to logo design, limiting to an extreme the user input in order to force the customer to get creative with tags - which could open the door to hopefully surprising results from our designers. That's the deed - if you're not quite happy you roll the dice and go again if you want, it's free. Along the lines of the stir-fried culinary metaphor, we'd like to offer quality stuff on-the-go. This comes from the need of a category of people (and you can pull myself in) who don't wanna bother going through revisions and all that jazz. This might not be the right service for you, and we won't try to convince you otherwise. If you're craving for Chinese take-away you won't go to the French restaurant. If you need a twitter account you won't get yourself a blog. And so forth. Said so, your feedback and ideas are certainly constructive and valuable - thanks! P.S. The video is known problem (thanks for pointing out). You not liking the logos in the slideshow ... given the subjectivity of the topic it's bound to be a discussion with no end! :-)
  - k0ban 17y ago
    Got the logo, which had a good concept (idea), but won't fit to mine design because of colors. So it didn't work for me.
    - JohnIdol 17y ago
      The idea here is that if you're not happy with it you can re-submit (there's no official limit on the number of times you can request the same logo) and see what happens - Also you can get creative with tags (i.e. #as_previous_design #no_blue #etc) - being free it won't cost you. You might wanna give it a shot :-)