If you've spent that much time on a logo, why are you so nervous about showing us? You spent 30 hours on the logo! It has got to be amazing, if not better than any logo on any vB I have seen.

heh... any professional creating a logo should be spending that much time. That is my entire point.

Even at only 10 hours that's $7.50 an hour. Still way too cheap.

The only reason you think it's cheap is because you're thinking of the time you spend on it. No client tells you how long to spend on a logo, and it looks like you're in control of that. So why should they pay $500 because you take 30 hours to create a logo? Sure, 30 hours, such care, but I doubt I'd see a client tell you 'work 30 hours on my logo for $500' you are the one who pushes that. And once again, your professionalism is not determined about the amount you charge or how long you spend on your logo, it's the finished product. I don't think it even looks professional to backup your work by the amount you charge and time you spent on it.

I agree with ScottW on the prices - not saying that I charge that much because I don't think I'm good enough at logos to charge that much, but if I were offered a job at doing a logo for 100$ I wouldn't take it. It just isn't enough for a unique logo in my opinion. As for styles - making a header and footer with color switches gets me around 150$, doing a complete skin gets me 300$ and I know people who go for much more - take ravio for example(before he "went bad") people were paying him up to 5000$ for forum skin designs.

Logos are generally priced per project, not hourly. I was using the per hour rates to express a point. Factors that contribute to the cost of the logo are size of client, market area, nature of client, complexity of desired design (1 color, 2 color, 4 color). None of these factors will ever equal a $75 logo. The research alone that should go into making a unique mark for a client would constitute more than $75 in itself.

I can see that in the corporate world, designing might be this expensive, and it probably is. But not all vBulletin are run by big corporations, they are run by ordinary people who express an interest in the concept of their forum. Corporations may pay so much, but others may not.

I didn't mean to get in your way or anything. I was merely suggesting what the 'trend' is.

NO, id like to see some of your work, i like to just see what ther ppl are doing, and like i already siad, i know in the corporate area that logos are worth a lot, so if anything id tell you OMG THATS AWSOME :p

normal ppl wouldnot spend that much money on a logo, or a site. most ppl run their personal forums.

well and cuz Im Broke ( 16 yrz old ) :p lol

I spend money extremely fast

That doesnt mean a profesinal designer is going to charge less.