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Guy Shows Pathetic Logo He Received After Paying This Designer $250, Internet Responds By Creating Him A New One For Free
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When you ask for the services of a supposedly qualified designer, you expect them to put in at least a bit of effort. You know, not just write your company’s name in Microsoft Word or Google Docs in a simple, generic font. However, that’s exactly what happened when Ryan Clark, the founder of Dar Amor Bracelets, asked for a guy named Tyler to design his logo for 250 dollars.
Tyler sent him back the most low-effort logo we’ve ever seen. There was exactly zero creativity there and Ryan was onto him. In a series of TikTok videos, the client showed some of his and the designer’s emails and demonstrated how some ‘professionals’ hide their laziness behind fancy words. Scroll down to check out the viral videos.
Bored Panda reached out to Ryan who told us about what happened. He said that he was surprised when he initially saw the logo design.
“It seemed low-effort, but I didn’t write it off initially. I wondered if I could make one better, so I opened Google Docs, and after typing ‘Dar Amor’ as a starting point, I knew what had happened,” he shared with Bored Panda. Scroll down for our full interview.
More info: TikTok | Instagram | DarAmorBracelets.com
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In a viral video that got nearly 11 million views, Ryan shared how the designer he hired for $250 tried to swindle him
@daramorbracelets I’m still in shock. Did he not think I’d notice? #wtf#confused♬ Stan Mariano – Sterling Silver
The final version of the ‘professional’ logo Ryan requested shocked him
Image credits: daramorbracelets
Image credits: daramorbracelets
Image credits: daramorbracelets
Here’s how some TikTok users reacted to what happened
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Not Proud British 3 years ago
Wait. Did this dude just get a whole ton of publicity for his business and a slew of free design logos whilst he was at it? That's clever.
Night Owl 3 years ago (edited)
He certainly did. Lucky guy. He has a lot of free design options now but I hope he'll still pay the designer whose work he decides to use
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Glirpy 3 years ago
I am a graphic designer. So, a few things: the person that did the logo was probably not a graphic designer and if they are should be ashamed. Also, $250 is cheap for a logo design. BP literally just had a post about people working for too little money. I don’t do logo design work for less than $750, and that’s on the low end. There is a lot more that goes into it than just designing the logo. There’s meetings, research, etc. It’s your brand. It’s how the world sees you. Designers (and the company owner) should be researching their competition, how they want to present themselves in the market. Designers need to think, not only about type, but how the logo works in different situations: biz cards, trucks, buildings, website banners, etc. The vast majority of the world doesn’t really understand how important or powerful a logo is for their brand and especially why they should pay a lot of money for it.
Glirpy 3 years ago
It’s also quite possible that the guy made this whole thing up and typed that text into a document and took a picture with his phone and made a post about it to get some free publicity. If so, well done from a marketing standpoint. But, to the designers offering concepts to the guy in response, you are not doing yourself or the rest of the design community any service by working on concepts for free.
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Jef Bateman 3 years ago
It seems like this is an unusual development process. Shouldn't the developer put together some proposals for approval before starting on the final design? It's weird that he was paid before the design was accepted. PS - I helped with the development of a logo only one time, but I learned enough to know this is an idiosyncratic approach to getting one designed.
Marco Conti 3 years ago
You are right. Something is wrong here. No one pays in advance. The designer will submit a low res rendering of the logo for approval and then furnish the vector or high res version upon payment. Of course there are a lot of scammers that will work for nothing at the start then extort you for the high res versions. Bad people are everywhere.
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Not Proud British 3 years ago
Wait. Did this dude just get a whole ton of publicity for his business and a slew of free design logos whilst he was at it? That's clever.
Night Owl 3 years ago (edited)
He certainly did. Lucky guy. He has a lot of free design options now but I hope he'll still pay the designer whose work he decides to use
Load More Replies... Glirpy 3 years ago
I am a graphic designer. So, a few things: the person that did the logo was probably not a graphic designer and if they are should be ashamed. Also, $250 is cheap for a logo design. BP literally just had a post about people working for too little money. I don’t do logo design work for less than $750, and that’s on the low end. There is a lot more that goes into it than just designing the logo. There’s meetings, research, etc. It’s your brand. It’s how the world sees you. Designers (and the company owner) should be researching their competition, how they want to present themselves in the market. Designers need to think, not only about type, but how the logo works in different situations: biz cards, trucks, buildings, website banners, etc. The vast majority of the world doesn’t really understand how important or powerful a logo is for their brand and especially why they should pay a lot of money for it.
Glirpy 3 years ago
It’s also quite possible that the guy made this whole thing up and typed that text into a document and took a picture with his phone and made a post about it to get some free publicity. If so, well done from a marketing standpoint. But, to the designers offering concepts to the guy in response, you are not doing yourself or the rest of the design community any service by working on concepts for free.
Load More Replies... Jef Bateman 3 years ago
It seems like this is an unusual development process. Shouldn't the developer put together some proposals for approval before starting on the final design? It's weird that he was paid before the design was accepted. PS - I helped with the development of a logo only one time, but I learned enough to know this is an idiosyncratic approach to getting one designed.
Marco Conti 3 years ago
You are right. Something is wrong here. No one pays in advance. The designer will submit a low res rendering of the logo for approval and then furnish the vector or high res version upon payment. Of course there are a lot of scammers that will work for nothing at the start then extort you for the high res versions. Bad people are everywhere.
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