Who Is Your Favorite Graphic Designer?
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recently had similar task and went with 99 designs. Couldn't be happier! it's always best to have ideas from several different designers, + competition drives better results.
Some tips - don't be cheap on the winner's price, do some research and invite the designers whoes styles you like. These will give you much better chance getting quality job. + Don't forget to use the poll feature to get feedback from people in targeted niche - that gave me some good insight, your opinion/tastes is not always the best for the particular project - you should create the design correlating with thoughts of people in your targeted niche.
Some tips - don't be cheap on the winner's price, do some research and invite the designers whoes styles you like. These will give you much better chance getting quality job. + Don't forget to use the poll feature to get feedback from people in targeted niche - that gave me some good insight, your opinion/tastes is not always the best for the particular project - you should create the design correlating with thoughts of people in your targeted niche.
That's not what designers do. That's what executives do. Find a good designer who can accept direction.
I like to give artists room to implement their art, but most are not good marketers, and most are not even good artists. What you're asking for is extremely expensive, and those designers know it.
If you have a big budget, find places where it is acceptable to throw the budget out there, and you'll attract a few candidates.
Your answer.
My addition. Your just starting out so you must create your own brand, after that build a theme around your brand and then you also build your own concept on how can you best monetize everything.
What designer must do is get your brand, your theme and your concept and design your logo's, site, ads, Templates etc. but all the idea must come from you otherwise there will be no satisfaction on your end
I see some confusion here about what a brand is.. I should really put up a video on my YT channel about this..
Simply put, a brand encompasses everything about a business; all emotions elicited from the audience. Now if you take a magnifying glass and you examine the integral parts of a brand, you'll find the visual identity.
The visual identity is what you want your designer to take care of. The VI consists of the colors you want associated with the business & design practices (identity guideline), stationary, web design, product/packaging, the logo, etc..
The logo is a part of the visual identity, and it's the visual identity in its most simple form.
Simply put, a brand encompasses everything about a business; all emotions elicited from the audience. Now if you take a magnifying glass and you examine the integral parts of a brand, you'll find the visual identity.
The visual identity is what you want your designer to take care of. The VI consists of the colors you want associated with the business & design practices (identity guideline), stationary, web design, product/packaging, the logo, etc..
The logo is a part of the visual identity, and it's the visual identity in its most simple form.
Agree, and in our current world, "a brand, a theme, a concept" are useless without good marketing. If the OP wants a logo, then I guess they are taking a legitimate track... although, if they are talking about a "designer" for a website (web design, product/packaging - as you said), they'll have to pay a lot, be very hands on, and probably both. PSDs are a requirement, in case a good designer disappears. Whatever I do, cheap or expensive, I always want the source files as part of the deal.
I also find some people have the talent to create... and some people have the talent to modify. (when I can't direct them to create hardly anything at all... it baffles me sometimes...) Pretty much, you have to build a team to be cost effective, and if you don't have your marketing right, then a great designer may not help.
If you have no budget constraints, you better know how to IPO shit and have a ton of cash behind you. I could only wish.
While we're talking design, and 99designs (crowdsourcing) was mentioned, I'll take any chance I can to talk about them a bit. 
The allure of "Let our community of 262,707 designers create dozens of designs for you" is appealing up front. Sounds fucking awesome. But if you do the math and take a look at your average 99designs designer, it'll show you how many contests they've entered, how many they've won, and how much $ they've earned.
I went through and tallied up the numbers across like 10 designers awhile ago.. The vast majority of designers lose 90% of the contests. Even the best are around that %. You pretty much have to work full time, churning out design after design after design to be able to make any sort of livable income. I can't see how the designer can really, truly focus on a project there. And I have a strong suspicion, a good # of the designers will save concepts for the projects they've lost, and re-use/re-name/re-submit them to other future contests.
Now I get it, if the customer's happy with the end result, great. But if you have a business you're serious about, I would browse sites like behance/dribbble and hit up designers with a proven track record and a great portfolio before taking a chance crowdsourcing with what's likely a collective of *aspiring* designers.
The allure of "Let our community of 262,707 designers create dozens of designs for you" is appealing up front. Sounds fucking awesome. But if you do the math and take a look at your average 99designs designer, it'll show you how many contests they've entered, how many they've won, and how much $ they've earned.
I went through and tallied up the numbers across like 10 designers awhile ago.. The vast majority of designers lose 90% of the contests. Even the best are around that %. You pretty much have to work full time, churning out design after design after design to be able to make any sort of livable income. I can't see how the designer can really, truly focus on a project there. And I have a strong suspicion, a good # of the designers will save concepts for the projects they've lost, and re-use/re-name/re-submit them to other future contests.
Now I get it, if the customer's happy with the end result, great. But if you have a business you're serious about, I would browse sites like behance/dribbble and hit up designers with a proven track record and a great portfolio before taking a chance crowdsourcing with what's likely a collective of *aspiring* designers.
While we're talking design, and 99designs (crowdsourcing) was mentioned, I'll take any chance I can to talk about them a bit.
The allure of "Let our community of 262,707 designers create dozens of designs for you" is appealing up front. Sounds fucking awesome. But if you do the math and take a look at your average 99designs designer, it'll show you how many contests they've entered, how many they've won, and how much $ they've earned.
I went through and tallied up the numbers across like 10 designers awhile ago.. The vast majority of designers lose 90% of the contests. Even the best are around that %. You pretty much have to work full time, churning out design after design after design to be able to make any sort of livable income. I can't see how the designer can really, truly focus on a project there. And I have a strong suspicion, a good # of the designers will save concepts for the projects they've lost, and re-use/re-name/re-submit them to other future contests.
Now I get it, if the customer's happy with the end result, great. But if you have a business you're serious about, I would browse sites like behance/dribbble and hit up designers with a proven track record and a great portfolio before taking a chance crowdsourcing with what's likely a collective of *aspiring* designers.
Radwanska, she's always kinda annoyed me but the recent blonde transition has made her less annoying, and more just a dirty slutty tennis player.
Sounds very appealing if you want a visual identity that is derivative and has little thought into the type of brand you want to be seen as, apart from obvious symbolism & cliches.
Steve Wagz helped me build my biggest brands that I represented at one point, he has a googly eye for detail. 5 star designer IMO.
this is such a general question. logo design ≠ web design ≠ UX ≠ print ≠ etc
if you are literally looking for someone to build an entire brand image, I would recommend using an agency that has experience with such.
MANY designers are capable of shipping a complete package i.e. logo, website, print, etc but very few are skilled in knowing WHY you should use a particular logo for a particular brand. so many other considerations.
if you are literally looking for someone to build an entire brand image, I would recommend using an agency that has experience with such.
MANY designers are capable of shipping a complete package i.e. logo, website, print, etc but very few are skilled in knowing WHY you should use a particular logo for a particular brand. so many other considerations.
