Logo pricing
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- Mishga0
pick one from windows clip-art and give it a web 2.0 look.
..et voilà!
- MSTRPLN0
Ask him for a "friend deal" on a house in exchange
- ian0
Jesus would turn that clip art into an award winning brand with a wave of his magic wand.
You on the other hand could just do something very simple in a very short space of time, let your friend know that whatever you create is the final logo and that its not something you normally do for a proper paying client then go have a few beers.
Or
Tell him to fuck right off cos this is what you do for a living and you don't care if he passes his masters or not. The massive cunt.
- chossy0
Do a couple of hours of good work on it, £100 pounds is worth a couple of hours worth of work.
- Bypasser0
If you do it for £100, you'll probably end up with more work then you expected and curse yourself for agreeing. If you don't, you miss out on a £100.
I guess its also about how much fun you think you can have doing it and how much you care about your friends friend.
- Bluejam0
do it because he is a friend. surely you're a good enough designer to be able to do something good and in a short period of time, it aint no sistine chapel.
plus you could get all marlon brando and let him know it's a favour and should the time when you need a favour he'll be ready to offer his services. whenever. whatever.
- +1 you're gonna need some construction work someday, everybody does.section_014
- ian0
Oh wait, I didn't read the initial post thoroughly. Its for a friend of a friend eh? I'd be erring on the side of option 2 in my original post.
or perhaps outsource it to india for £25 and use the remaining £75 to go for a few beers.
- monospaced0
Help your bro out. Fuck.
- seven8nine100
help him, he is not making any money out of it
- craighooper0
Fuck these people w/ these ridiculous budgets—regardless if it is for a school project or not. Communication design services and intellectual property cost money—bottom line.
We get constant requests for quotes from clueless wonders, all wanting full-featured web properties for $1200. It happens all the time. I've grown so tired of these time-wasters, that I refuse to even think about drafting a proposal or project estimate. When I smell a rotting corpse, I reply w/ some rather blunt wording about realistic associated costs—I've yet to be proven wrong on this one. Those sniffing around asking questions like "how much for a website", or "what would it cost to have a logo designed for my 2-man company" are wasting everyone's time—including their own.
Problem is, there are so many desperate designers out there willing to step-right-up and provide their under-valued services for this type of shit. That's why we all hear: "well, the last designer we hired built us a website for $675".
Time to end this rubbish.
- airey0
it's for a university assignment yeah? for fucks sake, rip one out of your design books and move on. get a carton of piss out of him or something. considering most of the people at his uni will probably do their own in powerpoint i think the bar may be set lower than usual.
- Jimbo820
You're right, as long as he know's it's a favour then the £100 is just him showing some appreciation. Plus, if he ever does get this company up and running then he's likely to come to me for some proper work. I can knock up a spanking logo in 5 minutes, charge him £100, thats £1200 an hour... Mum, I've finally made it.
- Spanna0
do it
- rafalski0
Still dabbling?..
ready..steady.. autokern init !!!
- MrMackem0
Just do it.
Couple of hours work? £100.
Not a real client - easy money.
- Iggyboo0
In these tough times I have started seeing this sort of thing happening alot. People try to lower your rates. Just don't agree to it. It doesn't help you, or the next guy or that guy's friends. Designers need to educate clients it costs money to do this stuff, it costs times, and frankly your services are in demand don't give the goods away for cheap unless you feel like it's worth that much.
But that being said I been in your shoes more than once in the past 3 months and I said no. Good luck.
- Jimbo820
Craighooper - I understand your point but you've got to draw a line somewhere, what if it was your own mother who doesn't have a clue, and she wanted a logo for her flower shop. Would you charge her full rate?
This guy is not earning anything from this company, it's purely fictional, and he wants a logo so it will look better when he submits his coursework. Yet he is a friend of a friend, and wants something knocked up, the £100 is not a real valuation of the work, I see it more of a gesture that he appreciates I am doing him a favour.
- Policy is policy—haven't we all done enough "jobs for friends"? We have, and we're donecraighooper
- its_only_me0
Yeah just do it but dont let him arse you around.
one logo...with no changes and he can take it or leave it.
- penelopes0
send me the information, ill make it, take 90 and you can have ten