I'm just curious.

[rebelsrock06]

I do style design for anywhere from 50-350 us dollars. Mainly around 100 but this is because, like tony said, your EDITING A FORUM, not making an entire site from scratch, and about the logo's I work in advertizing so yes i know about that stuff and logos are the price you say BUT, on a forum community where the software costs 160 then the site and the host and the everything behind it you cant afford to buy all these huge logos and style design jobs.

Logo 50-75

Entire Style Design 200-400

[Jolten]

I'm sorry. I simply disagree. I understand this community won't bear real pricing. That's fine and not a problem. I don't mean to indicate that there aren't other professionals here either or that I'm the only one. However, a logo is one's calling card to the world regardless of whether it's for a forum or not. A logo is a logo is a logo. Rest assured I won't be forcing my prices on anyone in the vBulletin community. I was just curious, as the thread topic indicates. And I'm not trying to demean anyone who is working so cheap. That is their choice. However the Graphics Artists Guild and AIGA would be really displeased with a designer creating logos for $50. It devalues the entire profession as a whole. This is completely regardless of what the forum software costs. No logo is used for ONLY the forum. Arguing that your prices need to be lower because of what the client has already spent.. is.. well.... silly. My gas prices aren't lower because I spend $15,000 on a new car.

I do understand the entire "editing a forum" argument where a style is concerned. And somewhat agree with it. I could see a couple hundred dollars to simply alter buttons.

I wasn't trying to be so contoversial.

[CannonFodder]

like tony said, you are not the only professional designer, i consider myself a professional designer, and would never think of charging a cent over $75 for a logo, money has no say in whether you are professional or not, its the quality of your work.

[Zachery]

Josh your not really a profesional designer, i know one, and a logo for 75 bucks is insanely cheep, not somthing most designers will do.

You have a Degree? from anywhere? or at least certifcations? who are your big clients?

500 us for a logo is nothing to sneeze at in the coprate world.

[rebelsrock06]

True in the corporate world 500 is a good deal

Ive actually found a logo corp that does logo design and their BASE rate is 750 all the way up to 5000

[rebelsrock06]

One last thing, like Scott said. A logo is a calling card of sorta, this of At&t or SBC or Yahoo they all have UNIQUE logos, and they probably paid a great deal of money for those

[dndog]

Scott, would you mind showing a logo that you have designed. I am quite curious as to what a $500 dollar logo would amount to...

Thanks.

[rebelsrock06]

Me too

[Jolten]

Show you what Ive done? Why? So you can tell me it's worth $30. Honestly, if you're happy working for as little as $2/hour or less... more power to you.

[Jolten]

Originally Posted by iHCF

like tony said, you are not the only professional designer, i consider myself a professional designer, and would never think of charging a cent over $75 for a logo, money has no say in whether you are professional or not, its the quality of your work.

True. Money isn't the determining factor. But the quality if work is. If you are creating good quality of work you're probably spending more than 30 hours on the project. You must to create something as intricate as a logotype. So.. let's see... 30 hours... for a final cost of $75 equates to $2.50 and hour. Again.. those are not professional rates. That's not even minimum wage in any state. Honestly, the only way I could EVER see $75 being justified is if you are a starting designer and created the logo in under an hour, maybe two hours. And if you are indeed a starting designer creating logos in less than two hours, the quality is not good. It simply can't be. Sure it may be a pretty picture but not a logo.

For the record, I mean "professional" in the terms that you make your living, put food on the table, pay your bills, and self-promote all with the income generated from your design work either as freelance or under the employment of someone else. Simply getting $50 to make an image for someone does not classify anyone as a professional. Hobbyists can make money on their hobby without being professionals.