Seems we’re not the only ones who take a grim view of logo design contests – fellow Irishman and Friend of the Factor David Airey has just posted a look at how logo design contests are bad for business. He takes a look at some lackluster results from a few recent online contests that illustrate how this increasingly popular way of ‘crowd-sourcing’ (more on that in a while) your design work out via the toobz is not such a stellar idea. This is something that we’ve been on about for a while now – we also take a fairly in-depth look at logo design contests in our knowledge base. The folks at No Spec! aren’t big fans either.

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  5. More on those fabulous logo design contests…

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2 Comments to “Logo Design Contests – Bad for Business”

  1. Hello Steve,

    Thanks for the mention, and glad you take a similar view.

  2. Oh, and thanks very much for the blogroll link!