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Is there a good free online service to design a logo? I suck at Photoshop ;) |
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there are some but they are made more as a joke eg http://craplogo.me/ If you want a unique logo for a business then you have to make a unique one to avoid being sued. PS no need to hire someone to make a logo if you are okay with photoshop. Companies like gap paid hundreds of thousands to get their logo and it was such crap that they made a website about it (craplogo) Lol! By the way, craplogo left there logos directory open ;) http://craplogo.me/logos/ I made one but it sucks hard http://i.imgur.com/q5bLC.jpg if you are making a logo, do you need one designed for printing or will it be something that is focused as online only? if it is to be printed, then you need to use as few colors as possible for the logo, (many companies use 2-8 colors since with large scale printing you pay by how many colors you use due to the way their printers work). if it is online only then you can use as many colors as you want PS if you are a registered company then there is no need for the LLC, all companies are basically LLC since all companies limit liabilities. US law sees cooperations as people so if the company does something bad then the most that the government can do is shut the company down or issue a fine. It protects the people behing the company, eg there was an article where verizon billed someone incorrectly and when the issue was pointed out the worker in billing refused to fix it. Legally, that would be theft, but you cannot call the police for it and you cant sue the incompetent worker, the most you can do is sue the company. "PS if you are a registered company then there is no need for the LLC, all companies are basically LLC since all companies limit liabilities." Not 100% true, this can vary state by state for tax and liability purposes, the most basic concept with an LLC is if you where to get sued, they can only sue you for what the company is worth. On a federal level as far as i know there is no difference unless you start to do international transactions on a regular basis. but this can change depending on the state. It also changes with things if the company is publicly traded. as far as im aware you cannot be a publicly traided company under an LLC, the owner has to be an individual or a partnership. here is one source: http://www.legalzoom.com/incorporation-guide/corporation-llc-comparison.html |
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You can not generate creativity and branding. (edited out self-branding). |
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LOL! Just tweak a square like the big companies do. I'm almost kidding. A lot of the design work for the web and for logos more recently has gained a less is more principle. It's hard to say for sure but it does have some of the hallmarks of a fad. Clean is not "the" design principle; balance is. Most importantly for a logo is representation. There is so much horrible graphic design in the path of the average eye that it has taken on the association. It's no surprise to me that you're having trouble since you have so few examples to follow. Just make something you like that represents who you are and it will be better than a lot of what you see. |
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Try to come up with a logo that represents you/your business. If it needs to be clean, it's clean. If it needs to be in your face/loud, go for that. Again, it all depends on what it needs to represent. And if that means you have to pay for it, so be it! I'm looking into a few designers myself for a new project I'm working on. And I know I suck at photoshop, so I gladly pay someone else to create a logo that fits my project, because a logo is still your 'business-card'... |
Kidding aside here's some real help. Come up with a somewhat simple image of something meaningful to your project. You may be able to find inspiration by summing it up in words, googleing it and clicking on images.
Here's some help with choosing a font.
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?263846-Design-because-presentation-is-key.