Logo Design Contests Are Considered Evil

There are many logo design artists, companies and bloggers who think that logo design contests are an evil shameful practice that must be discouraged. According to them these logo design contests announce a price which is often as low as $50 for a logo design and then they get concepts from many different designers from across the globe mostly from third world countries where $50 is not that low a price for a logo design.

What worries these logo designers the most is the economical burden it puts on them, they can not compete with contest designers. So instead they claim that the logo designs generally submitted to design contests are of very low quality and most often they are plagiarized.

One thing is that the organizations who arrange contests for logo design are generally not concerned that much about quality of the logo. They do not have brand building programs as huge as that of some medium sized wicked software solutions provider. Most of the time these organizations are non-governmental organizations, churches, small city governments, schools and colleges. To them a logo design needs to just represent their ideals and thats all they care about. They need something to print, and something to fill the gaps.

The contest designers should be treated as cheap labour, if you can't compete with them you can not restrain them from working cheap. They do it willingly and in fact what looks like pathetically low price for a logo design to Westerners could be low but to the designers in Africa or Asia this is a good price for a day or two's work.

Wouldn't it be best if the big shot designers spent their time on creating high quality designs to prove that better designs produce better results? Instead of trying to steal away the bread and butter from these poor designers who do not have that many opportunities in their countries.