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Hopefully I won't come off sounding too dense here, just trying to understand from a designer's POV.
I'm curious what the "standard" business rule is for logo designers when they work for a client but fail to design anything the client accepts. Does the designer still get full payment? My designers did not charge me anything but I did give them a "appreciate your try" payment, which was purely my decision.
Even though I don't really need the logo for say two months, designers prefer some kind of deadline be set for these things. Would a deadline of two months be too long?
Of course I understand credibility is an issue, and perhaps if I could give the money to some "trusted" entity to hold for payout that would entice more designers.
If the pot was over $400+ US, would it still require a payout if no design was acceptable? I really do want to get a design out of this but it feels odd to agree to pay X amount of money for something sight unseen, not even knowing if any submission will trigger the "that's the one" feeling.
Seems like it would be worth the chance to take for what appears to be a rather small design task, as long as the participants could trust that they'd get paid and that a winner would be selected if an entry was acceptable. I guess this is the hardest part.
As for defining what I'm looking for, my problem is I can code like hell but can't draw a straight line if my life depended on it. I have zero creativity when it comes to these things, so I have to rely on others for this, but I know when I see something that I think is good.
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