Logo sauce: is it bad for graphic designers?

[strev]

Not to pick on LogoSauce per se, and I did enjoy the competition, but there is a bigger issue here. Spec work and the ultimate devaluation of the profession. The fact that a large company can "hire" 50 or more designers for as little as $50 US and have them fine tune his/her cherry picks until they have their royalty free prize– a logo design that could potentially be a national brand. When this catches on and others launch similar sites where clients can realize an incredible resource network for such a little investment, it will ultimately hit you at home, in your city, in your pocket.

Maybe the answer is to raise the stakes. $500 us for a logo? There are obvously some talented professionals that dally in LogoSauce (who are also on GDF) so lets hear what your take is on this.

[Laura Lynne]

I agree the minute any cash was mentioned it seemed people where using underhand tactics, the quality of the designs dropped and you're right once it catches on logo designers could struggle. I'm sure this was not the intention of logosauce I assumed it was a place for people to show and share their work but it seems to only be about the competitions now and it's taken away from some of the other work there.

You do well to raise the point.

[strev]

I don't think that was the intention of LogoSauce either. But after seeing some obvious plagarism, I deleted myself from the whole thing.

[Laura Lynne]

Are you deleting yourself from here as well? your picture's gone.

Don't desert us Strev.

[strev]

I'm stickin around–just gonna be a lttle more anon
(I think I offered too much info)

[Toon]

I used to like doing the comps, it's a good way to keep sharp only spending 15 minutes on a design but I think the more people that loose interest the more they'll have to do something about it.

[strev]

....and thanks for caring, Laura!

[strev]

Originally Posted by Toon

I used to like doing the comps, it's a good way to keep sharp only spending 15 minutes on a design but I think the more people that loose interest the more they'll have to do something about it.

I agree. I'm gonna watch from above.. in the ethernet.

[Alex*]

i agree there are too many competitions when i first joined in February ther were about 3 competitions dna investments , logosauce and the best logo in the world but there now seem to be about twenty so there are less people putting there own work up it now seems people are only uploading logos for logo competitions

[graphic-designer-joe]

Sounds like they're having a few problems pleasing everyone