Business Owner’s Video Goes Viral After He Shows What $250 For A Logo Got Him From A ‘Professional’ Designer Who Tried To Swindle Him

[leopard88]

I thought this might be of interest to the designers here.  I'm also curious to know everyone's take.

 

https://www.boredpanda.com/guy-gets-scammed-250-dollar-logo-design-arial-font/

[Cosmic]

That's the kind of logo that has to cost $1M to give it legitimacy. 

[Bruhammydude]

Funny thing is that the original Arial font logo is something I could genuinely see on some dumb expensive clothing brand.

[slapshot]

Not that I'm a fan of Arial, but just because it's a cheap or default typeface doesn't automatically make it a garbage design. All depends on how it's being used, customized, and what the rest of the identity set looks like.

 

In this case, it does look lazy and cheap. But this could have been laid out in Helvetica and it wouldn't have looked any different.

[VDizzle12]

On 2/28/2022 at 4:56 PM, Bruhammydude said:

Funny thing is that the original Arial font logo is something I could genuinely see on some dumb expensive clothing brand.

 

Absolutely. That Supreme garbage is literally just Futura in a red rectangle and people spend thousands on it. Makes no sense to me.

[pepis21]

$250? In pro agency he would pay for the same logo much more.

[seasaltvanilla]

No you guys don't understand, without three years of lead time the designer was really scrambling to get this thing put together, the economics of design are very complicated. Also please don't be dreadfully plebian by calling it boring or lazy, it's terribly low brow and uncultured language.

[dont care]

1 hour ago, seasaltvanilla said:

No you guys don't understand, without three years of lead time the designer was really scrambling to get this thing put together, the economics of design are very complicated. Also please don't be dreadfully plebian by calling it boring or lazy, it's terribly low brow and uncultured language.

If you don’t understand the difference between simply making a logo for a small business, and designing a jersey where you have deadlines to meet to be able to produce a world wide supply of them, and because of that you are put into a box of templates that are available to use. I don’t know what to tell you

[leopard88]

On 2/28/2022 at 4:56 PM, Bruhammydude said:

Funny thing is that the original Arial font logo is something I could genuinely see on some dumb expensive clothing brand.

 

I'm looking at you, Supreme.

 

[Chromatic]

On 3/5/2022 at 12:33 PM, dont care said:

If you don’t understand the difference between simply making a logo for a small business, and designing a jersey where you have deadlines to meet to be able to produce a world wide supply of them, and because of that you are put into a box of templates that are available to use. I don’t know what to tell you

woosh

[MDGP]

Not gonna lie, this situation feels extremely ripe for a scam (not saying that's what this guy did).

 

Type in a your company name in a simple font, do a quick fake email chain, say you paid a large sum of money, and then post about it on social media. If people are outraged enough by the situation, they might provide their own ideas for free and boom, you've got yourself a new logo, or the very least received a number proposals that would cost considerably more designed by a professional.

 

Hell, billion dollar organizations already do this regularly aside from the fake email chain part.

 

(again, not saying this guy did it, more the fact that it would be easy to fake)