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Portfolio a-go-go
"If we change the name, nobody will notice..."
At The Logo Factory, we take great pride in our design work, striving on a daily basis to create imaginative, original designs. In order to educate site visitors, and prospective clients, often newcomers to the corporate identity arena, we try to be as free as we can with info, design examples and logo design information. Naturally, this leads some to take advantage, and we often find that startup logo design companies (without established clients and portfolio) populate their web sites with designs that look suspiciously similar to material that we have produced. These logos are presented as 'real-world' examples meaning one of two things - B) they're not 'real world' examples but made up or B) the company in question has managed to pass off to their unsuspecting client a logo that at very least is confusing. At the very worst, a trademark or copyright infringement. In either case, it seems that their logo designers are lacking in confidence in their own abilities, and turn to The Logo Factory for, ahem, inspiration.
But how can you expect to receive the level of design proficiency shown on these web sites, if they must resort to 'borrowing' design examples from someone else?

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What?!! They're selling them on ebay too?!!
Business owners turning to auction site Ebay for logo design services was always a little perplexing. Not that we've anything against Ebay itself and have been, at many times, enthusiastic Ebay shoppers. Logo design auctions seemed, at the risk of sounding snobby or elitist, a tad unseemly. Other than the opportunity of getting a so-called ‘logo’ for a low-bid price, what would be the real benefit to the ‘client’? Alas, probably none. Hell, you can’t even be sure that the ‘designer’ you’re dealing has the graphic bona fides they’re boasting.
Over the years, we’ve been involved in a constant cat-and-mouse game with supposed ‘designers’ who pinch logo samples off our site, throw them up on an Ebay auction page, and hoist a shingle offering ‘professional logo design’ services. Comes with the usual online logo design malarkey - unlimited revisions, etc, etc. Read more about ebay logo auctions on our blog.
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