“I want to put a ding in the universe.” – Steve Jobs. 1955 – 2011
After ten years of selling logo design services, Utah-based Logoworks announces that it’s closing up shop.
Arguably one of the first crowdsourcing design sites, and since its inception in 2011, Logoworks was one of the top-ranked and successful logo design websites of the internet era. Purchased a few years back by Hewlett Packard for a princely sum (rumored to be in the neighborhood of $9 million) Logoworks was undeniably one of the largest purveyors of internet-driven logo design sales, so this announcement, posted on the Logoworks’ home page comes as a little bit of a surprise –
Dear Valued Logoworks Customers,
Recently HP has made a strategic decision to focus its web resources on non-design related projects. As a result, Logoworks will no longer be taking on new projects. If you have a design project in process, we will continue to work with you until you receive a logo or website that you love. You can continue to log-in and review your project using the link above.
We want to thank the tens of thousands of customers who have worked with us over the past ten years. In that time we worked on more than 200,000 different logo, website, and other design projects.
We also want to extend our thanks to our partners, affiliates, and suppliers who helped us grow and become the world’s premier online design agency.
Most of all we want to thank the many designers, account managers, and developers who created so much outstanding work—winning recognition from AIGA, Communication Arts, and other industry notables. We couldn’t have done anything without these incredibly talented people.
We anticipate that Logoworks.com will remain online until approximately March 31, 2012, so that you can access all of your design files. If you haven’t already, we recommend that you download any files you may need before that date.
If you need a new logo for your business or product, you can check out the free logo design tool at Logomaker.com where you can create and download a logo in 15 minutes or less.
The past ten years has been a tremendous experience for all of us, and we are grateful to have had the chance to work closely with so many small business owners. We wish you the best of luck in all your future endeavors.
Sincerely,
The Logoworks Team
Whether this is indicative of larger forces at work in the logo design niche, or simply Hewlett Packard ditching services outside their core is anyone’s guess.
After four months and a global online campaign that netted 15,000 submissions, Serbian designer Predrag Stakic has been announced as the winner of a design competition to find a logo for human rights.
My opinion on logo design contests notwithstanding, gotta admit this is a pretty nifty logo, designed as part of a contest to design a universal logo for human rights. The logo, entitled “free as a man,” beat out over 15,000 other submissions and earned Stakic 5,000 Euros (about $6,500).
Everything you need to know about getting a logo designed (but didn’t know who to ask).
Just putting the finishing touches to this little tome – The Guide to Great Logos – and figured I’d release the working version on our blog before the official launch. Weighing in at 7MB and 220 pages, this ebook uses a lot of the material on our website, some new stuff, logo design examples, tips, technical guides and what have you. Worth a read if you’re serious about logo design, or in the market for one of your own.
An innovative logo gets stuck, a shameless (but belated) plug, a crowdsourced logo contest causes an uproar and two others go awry.
Innovative logo gets stuck
When the Smithsonian Institute unveiled their new Department of Innovation blog and representative logo, critics were quick to pounce on the fact that the logo didn’t work. Not visually, but in actuality. The three gears would lock up 
if they had to turn (above left). After coming under fire on various political blogs, the logo was quietly changed so that the gears could turn (above right). If they were real. That got people pointing out that the varying spaces between the gears would lead to the little teeth shearing off. If the gears were real. And if they had to turn. Not the launch anyone wants for their new logo (hope people don’t look too closely to the gears in our logo).
Via: Logo Design Love.
Shameless, but belated, plugs department
Over the summer, while we were on hiatus, missed the opportunity for a shameless plug about our humble shop. Namely a nice little interview with yours truly that showed up in Canada’s The Globe and Mail small business channel on the importance of a decent logo, and the value of keeping a logo simple but smart. Worth a read if you have a few minutes to spare.
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