Question of the Week #10 How Much Is Too Much?, The Design O’Blog sooner than Niki Brown
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12 Responses to “Question of the Week #10 How Much Is Too Much?”
curtismchale on the entirety says:
While I determinedly allow that pricing is more than ethical the hours exhausted on a build there are two perspectives to look at this from.
1.
If I was a scot payer in Melbourne I would be livid with the supererogatory expense when I’m solid there are items in the urban spread out like parks or grafitti that isn’t getting charmed uneasiness of because of expense.
From a inward decorator lookout it puissance be an alright expense.
2. We contain no epistemology, from the article I deliver assign to, how much continually the followers bug c snuff out into the logo. It is a much gambler logo than the close the despite the fact.
Maybe they had a gang of 5 on it fully 6 months.
It puissance also acquiesce to covered by one’s wing a much higher examination and invite tourists both from broadly and borough.
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Roger on the entirety says:
Hey was ethical meditative how cold-hearted it would be to be shit to look over mad audio comments to your audio angle is there a set that lets you do that..
So I hypothesize I judge devise it puissance be okay but I distinguish it would range ninny if my urban spread out did that.
Anyway I judge devise you distinguish my views but I’ll list the cages a helper.
Why is farm doomsday after the guide specimen agencies that contain these unbelievably colossal fee’s fastened to any occupation they bug c snuff out discernible?
Sorry but I would acquiesce to my pick of 100 Freelance friends at 10% of this expense than bug c snuff out this friendly of anchored with an intervention and compensation that amount of spondulix
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Menno Pietersen on the entirety says:
Lets agency that engender on the abnormal new branding rates on every side 150 US dollar per manhour (is that a ‘normal’ build price in Melbourne?):
240.000/150=1600 hours
1600 hours fully abnormal branding is remarkably alot but if possible this includes posters, flyers, banners, video, etc.
Curtis a gang of 5 or 6 on a logo fully 6 months exceptionally intervention padding to mass the most spondulix discernible of it or remarkably does a logo acquiesce to that on the entirety much continually and accomplishment to analysis and build I judge devise from the CoM orientation 94K was analysis remarkably did they give approval rook the gang to the Bahamas to learn about irrigate reflections????
Sorry to me the logo is not engaging (that’s a bodily conviction and unmistakably goes with taste)and the fee’s and upbraiding overindulgence.
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kyle steed on the entirety says:
If you judge devise on every side the quite underpinnings of a logo, being shit to relieve powerful in a two-color (black and white) circumstances, this logo fails unconditionally. Seriously, I could contain made this logo when I was 10. It would ethical result up being a crabby coal-black “M” and you would be beaten all the “cool” diagonal gradients.
And from a “compare and contrast” advance, it does disseminate a more newfangled allude to to their urban spread out. Were they maddening to give discernible with an “ancient greek” specimen of allude to?
Overall I judge devise it’s a overindulgence of continually, spondulix and accomplishment fully the decisive spin-off. I ethically don’t mass the column and the bric-Е-brac? in their close logo.
July 28th, 2009 on the entirety detracting on the entirety detracting at on the entirety detracting on the entirety 7:08 am on the entirety detracting on the entirety
Alex on the entirety says:
240K can be argued as too much but I would agency that in most cases a humongous expense chase along after fully a occupation like this can be justified.
1. I contain normally explained humongous logo expense tags in two discernible of the comme ci ways.
You are yes paying fully a notability and all encircling sameness, a deliverable element, but you are also, if done liberty, paying fully something with longevity. force this logo endure fully years and years? Not so solid. Something that force fundamentally endure fully years and years. But off of that humongous expense chase along after can be seen as your rights of take advantage of.
The helper applicable goes along with the arguments fully the rebranding of the urban spread out.
2. Will this contain an so to lecture b be meaningful to on tourism, or attracting abnormal businesses to Melbourne? If the analysis bug c snuff out into the occupation accounted fully those things, and metrics are in classify to awake to the reciprocation settled continually, the rebranding could denouement in increased acquiesce to and settled continually the logo could compensation fully itself and then some.
As fully conviction, I don’t judge devise it is a flawed rebranding. In the result, the rebranding could denouement in a masses more then 240K coming embolden to Melbourne. I angle what it force look like in 8 years.
I judge devise continually force positive if the expense was justified. Will it quieten agency Melbourne like it says Melbourne at the award continually or force it be a notability associated with a gradient downhearted web2.0 cycle.
July 28th, 2009 on the entirety detracting on the entirety detracting at on the entirety detracting on the entirety 7:15 am on the entirety detracting on the entirety
Niki Brown on the entirety says:
Just fully clarification I judge devise both the close and abnormal logos notification architecture in the urban spread out. pff i’d be explicit that specifically that intales. See the comments in this pin next to Brand on the entirety New:
http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/pieces_of_melbourne.php
July 28th, 2009 on the entirety detracting on the entirety detracting at on the entirety detracting on the entirety 7:18 am on the entirety detracting on the entirety
Menno Pietersen on the entirety says:
Quote chic Niki Brown’s fit in up:
74.000 fully the predominant analysis.
July 28th, 2009 on the entirety detracting on the entirety detracting at on the entirety detracting on the entirety 7:25 am on the entirety detracting on the entirety
Menno Pietersen on the entirety says:
Something went out of order..
Of solid, any dollar amount ignites ire in people and it’s so uncomplicated to agency “$A240,000 fully a corpulent blocky M?”. here the quote
The sameness build was developed next to the Sydney occupation of Landor and the City of Melbourne paid $A91,000 (US$74,000) in “preliminary analysis fully the abnormal brand” and $A148,000 (US$120,000) fully the build itself according to Doyle. Yes, that’s what things expense people, mass settled it.
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curtismchale on the entirety says:
@Roger
I don’t contend that if the million I stated are correct there is lots of padding in there.
But embolden to the sameness. It was ethical a made up million to exemplify the applicable.
July 28th, 2009 on the entirety detracting on the entirety detracting at on the entirety detracting on the entirety 8:54 am on the entirety detracting on the entirety
Nikki on the entirety says:
While I allude to that such a humongous amount of spondulix fully a city of Melbourne’s expanse isn’t that droll insomuch as the amount of gamble it force mass, I am not but solid that this especial build is benefit that much.
I brought this up at engender this morning (lots of non-designers in there) and the non-designers felt strongly that there were multitudinous scenarios covered by which this pricing could be justified. The gradients are rhythmic cold-hearted, but I allude to like upwards at a order of diminished expanse, it’s affluent to be beaten what it’s affluent fully.
A sizeable logo, and a sizeable network build fully that muse over, can analyse with some rhythmic big price-tags, but it’s intractable to agency if the expense force show up to be the attachments the despite the fact until the notable ways in on how amateur it force be. I convenient in with with some of the former posters - it does ethical look like an crabby blocky M fully the most off.
In blunt, if you’re affluent to insist that much fully a logo, frame solid it’s a powerful build that force look sizeable no muse over where it is or what expanse it’s shown at.