I have been trying to start up my own freelance graphic design company, and my friend hired me to design a logo for him. The only problem I have is that I can't seem to find a free royalty-free vector-based clipart website... I don't have money to join one that requires a membership! If anyone has any suggestions for finding any vector-based royalty-free images for free, please let me know!!
2006-07-01 17:37:46 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Drawing & Illustration
I agree. If you are the designer, you shouldn't use clip art for an original logo. (Clip art is for non-designers trying to do things themselves, like administrative assistants and secrataries.)
2006-07-01 20:08:05 · answer #1 · answered by truthyness 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Hmm..
I don't want to sound mean, (and I'd sooner say nothing than sound critical, but I'm trying to help) but I believe you just haven't presented a complete enough question.
For example, you haven't described the requested logo. Possibly, you're referring only to text, but you could also be referring to some sort of graphical representation of some sort of object, but you're too vague.
Also, your reference to clipart may imply that this logo needs to be animated, but again, that's also unclear.
Finally, I don't entirely get this "vector-based" component. On one hand (maybe you're at least familiar with this), vector-based images tend to have a small file size because they are allowing the computer to draw them as opposed to bitmap images such as bitmap/jpeg, which are literally a "map of bits (pixels)" and therefore retain their crispness and proportions despite any image size change because at that point, the computer is just making a simple calculation; meanwhile, if a smaller bitmap gets "blown up", the image suffers pixelation degrade because the visual data just isn't available.
Anyway, again, not having enough information, I can at least offer this: there's a website here http://cooltext.com/Default.aspx that is an online logo-generating program and the only thing you download is your completed logo, which can be in a few different formats. Some options on the site have simple gif-based animations (like text can be 'on fire', glowing, etc.). It might not suit your needs..but it's not like you fully articulated your needs, so it's all I can suggest.
2006-07-02 17:29:05 · answer #2 · answered by deidonis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to be very careful of the copyright regulations. You should be designing your own logos. Your customer is paying you for an original, unique identification for his business. It is ethically all right to borrow IDEAS from others work, but you can be sued if you use something without modifying it. Start by downloading a trial version of photoshop and illustrator from adobe.com. They also offer short tutorials on how to use these programs. Corbis.com offers some excellent royalty free artwork,
as well as work you must pay for. The best thing to do though is just use your imagination and come up with something of your own. You can design something very nice if you follow the principals of design like contrast and alignment, etc. Good Luck.
2006-07-02 05:21:21 · answer #3 · answered by jimminycricket 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being a graphic designer should mean that you have the ability to produce your own graphics using whichever programme you may feel comfortable with. I personally don't advocate using pre-fabricated clip art images to produce logos. However, if you're looking for ideas of inspiration you can have a look at www.istockphoto.com. You can purchase royalty free (vector) images there starting from $1.
2006-07-06 02:40:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dont use clipart for logos.
1. Your customer wont be able to get a copyright or trademark because the original belongs to someone else.
2. There is nothing that would prevent a competitor from using the same clipart for their logo.
2006-07-05 09:25:58 · answer #5 · answered by creativeblox 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First, if you are a real designer you should be able to draw your own design and scan it into your program (I prefer CoreDraw over Illustrator but that's just me). As an alternative and only if you must, buy a clip art program at Staples or Costco, you can get them for well under $100. You should have 2 or 3 of them in your office, they are invaluable for customer to sift through to get an idea of what they have in mind, and I sometimes use design elements in them in logo work, I'm not that much of a snob. But I will manipulate them to make them my own, or just use them as a jumping off place, as inspiration, and hand draw my own. Make the purchase, you need tools in any business.
2006-07-02 05:05:41 · answer #6 · answered by Mandalawind 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are going to be a designer, then design. Don't use clipart for a logo. If you do that very often your business will fizzle as customers go to people who have novel ideas of their own.
2006-07-02 05:12:26 · answer #7 · answered by Batty 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't even know that they had places that you could get vectored clip art like that. I would draw my own because there's got to be some sort of plagiarism thing with that. Plus I couldn't imagine using an image in a professional creation unless it was independently designed.
2016-03-27 00:46:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well... do you mean you're going to build your logo using clip-art? If you're going to design a logo, it should be your own composition. I highly suggest Adobe Illustrator. You could download a 30-day trial version of CS2 for free. That should give you enough time to build it.
I hope I helped...
2006-07-01 17:42:33 · answer #9 · answered by M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The principles of a successful logo design
2013-11-10 21:07:32 · answer #10 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋