Wow. What a rough industry speculative logo design is. So far I’ve submitted several designs to LogoTournament.com and 99Designs.com and they’ve either been eliminated by the client (cause some of them were admittedly lower quality than the other logos submitted – I mean, I’m 2 weeks in to this!) or they were disqualified by the moderators of the websites due to being low quality.
That hurts. I thought some of them were actually pretty good, and cannot really tell what was so poor quality about mine.
Here’s the winning submission and my submission side by side. I won’t tell you which one is which, but I’d like you to guess in the comments. There may be some really awful qualities about what I’m submitting that I am just not able to see myself!
Design A
Design B
There are some obvious newbie moves on my part, but that’s because I’m a newbie. To be honest, these are $100 – $200 prize contests I’m competing in and there are some quality designers out there that I’m up against!
I’m considering two options at this point: Contacting the mods and asking for more specifics on what was poor about my design OR cramming 10 tutorials in this week and just applying new knowledge to my design work. Or both.
Either way, I think my strategy will be to run through multiple tutorials each evening this week while submitting and applying new knowledge to design contests. I’ve got 14 days left and I really only need to win a few contests to meet my goal.
Alternatively, if I make some cool new designs I can always add them to a portfolio at Elance or Odesk. Although these sites are a race to the bottom, and I’ll probably only make $50 per design, the point here is to start getting paid. So $50 sucks cause I spend 2+ hours on a design.. but I can soon master more techniques and get paid more.
It’s hard to tell exactly not knowing what industry this company is in, however that said…
The “S” in B is a little hard to recognize on first glance and almost makes it look as if the name is “alt rooms.” just my 2 cents.
Valid point. B is actually mine =) After the past few months of ‘training’ in Illustrator, I would definitely have a different approach to this logo. I’m starting to see why I was rated as ‘poor quality’ =p