Another way to grow your logo design portfolio is to enter into logo design
contests. People are running these all the time so even if you go to... I just went to
Google News and searched Logo Design Contest. There's all these results like
'made in the Santa Maria Valley' logo design contest, 'logo design contest for RGV
bicycling capital' and this is just in the US where I live.
There might be other results in other countries.
Some are open to, you know, anyone can enter and other ones might have limitations as
far as local entries in a state or city, but I think a lot of these are pretty
open as far as whoever wants to enter a logo and can compete. So Fresno, California,
I believe, 'Greek fest announces logo contest' and this other one, this is
just from one search, just a couple of different articles in newspapers talking
about so this one, Orlando Sentinel, again, just another logo design contest.
So they're running those all the time. Now of course some of these may not pay
and you're basically signing over rights of the logo to them without payment, so it
might not be for you if you already have a huge portfolio, but this is for
beginners where they just want more examples and get their name out there,
and who knows, it might actually lead to more clients who like your work and it's very
likely to lead to that when people see it. Obviously people are going to say, wow,
you know, that's a really good logo. Will you design my logo for my app or for my
grocery store whatever. But even if you win a smaller one like a local city
bicycling capital type logo, that can lead to new clients as well and it's
also just something to put on your portfolio on your website that you can
show people. So even if it doesn't pay you know, a lot of times we don't want to just
work for free obviously, but if it can lead to new opportunities, if there's,
like some of these do have a prize like this one has a $400 award given, so it's
pretty good especially for a logo design contest. But even if it is free, I'd
consider doing it because you can still put it in your portfolio.
You might need to change a little bit if there's trademark issues but
even though their design didn't get picked to be the final winning entry,
they have something now that they've created, kind of a spec work, an example of their
design skills. Alright, so logo design contest. Just another way to grow your
logo design portfolio. Thanks.