LogoNest book 02 is finally here! I’m proud to announce that 10 of our logo designs are featured in this awesome book.

LogoNest 02 showcases some of the best logo design of 2011 from top designers from all over the world, as well as really well-written articles about branding and design from the pros. We are so psyched that 10 of our logos have made it to the book, it’s surely an honor. If you are interested, go ahead and check out their site.

Thanks LogoNest! Really happy to be featured, and can’t wait to contribute more for the next volumes!

Are you located in Jakarta? Love coffee? PERFECT!

We’re currently looking for a good web developer / programmer who is specialized in managing WordPress web projects to join our small (but solid) team. Below is the selection criteria for this position:

1. Male / female,  with a degree in technical education from a recognized college or university.
2. A minimum of 2 years of experience in the field (academically or professionally)
3. Technical competence in:
   • HTML and CSS (a must!)
   • PHP and MySQL (a must!)
   • AJAX, JavaScript
   • Various Operating Systems
4. Good English skills
5. Able to work flawlessly as part of a team as well as individually
6. Willing to explore new things and open to new challenges

If you think you’ve got what it takes, please send a complete CV along with a link to your online portfolio here. We will contact chosen candidates within a week after we receive the CV for an interview. Note that only chosen / shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

There’s no deadline for this one, and we will keep this post open until we have the position filled. So feel free to submit anytime!

Best of luck!

If you are interested, here’s how we play:

1. You have to be a spectator on Dribbble first.
2. Obviously, you have to show us your best design pieces. Create a shot (400×300 pixels) that you would post on Dribbble. Leave a comment below this post or send a tweet mentioning @Wizmaya with a link to the shot, and preferably along with a link to your online design portfolio as well.
3. We are accepting all entries until Saturday, March 10 2012, 00:00 Jakarta time (+7:00 GMT). All updates / changes will be announced via our Twitter account, so feel free to follow us.
4. Invitation will be sent out to one ‘winner’ on Monday, March 12 2012.

Several tips:

• We’re suckers for beautiful illustrations, killer logos and great design process.
• You can play around with your shot, but the link to your online portfolio is very essential.

So let’s get this game started! Thank you for participating, we’re looking forward to seeing your beautiful works!

Edit:

Turns out that finding the ‘right’ Dribbble draftee is harder than we thought. So we’re lifting up the deadline for this contest and it will stay open until we choose one worthy designer. Anyone interested, post and tweet us your best works!

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no… it’s a superkid!

It’s another cool freebie from us! This time it’s a superhero-kids vector illustration pack! There are several sets of different heads for both the boy and girl versions, as well as some various standing and flying poses. If you’re handy with AI, you’ll have a blast mixing-and-matching the elements to create you very own, unique superkid mascot!

Included in the ZIP file: EPS and AI files in CS version.

As usual, you can use this item freely for your personal use or share it among friends. However, please note that we still own all the copyright for this illustration so no reselling is allowed. If you want to host this file on your own server to share, we would really appreciate it if you could provide a back link to our site and mention Wizmaya.

Before downloading the file, you need to register to our site first. This is our way to expand our business connection and build traffic to our site. By downloading our files, you agree to our terms and conditions as well as our privacy policy.

If you find this freebie useful, we would really appreciate it if you can share this post via the social network icons below. Cheers!

We have seen so many non-profit organizations, charitable communities, fund raising services and charity events without visually-appealing logos. For us, this is quite unfortunate because we know a good logo can really make a difference in communicating their goodwill to the public. A great logo design will make the organization appear more professional, well-managed and dedicated to their cause. This will eventually result in gaining more trust from the public.

At Wizmaya, we believe that the more you give, the more meaningful your life is going to be. This is why we want to start contributing our skills to the community by offering a free logo design service each month for any charitable organization out there. From green peace to pets, from health-related to social awareness, we will consider all.

Interested? Read our Logo for Charity terms and conditions first and head straight to this page to start submitting the questionnaire!

For me, sketching is the most enjoyable part in doing any logo project.

Just thought I would put this up on our blog. This is a real fun logo design project done for a music mobile app, specializing in electronica – pop genre. We have done quite a bunch of doodles for this one, ultimately ended up using a retro robot mascot for the logo as it really symbolizes the pop culture of that particular genre’s era.

The sketches shown here are just a small part of all the doodles we did. Since robots and characters are ‘easier’ to the eyes, I didn’t include our shapes and form exploration for this logo. Anyway… final design can be seen below, with short animated GIF to show the ideation process. This was also a shot for Dribbble a couple days ago.

Hello again, ready for our new freebies?

We are sharing two illustrative iPad wallpapers for you! These ethnic-modern illustrations were done for a client’s desktop calendar project but were eventually unused, so we are giving them out for free as iPad wallpapers.

All images are in (1024 x 1024) pxls, 72 dpi format, fully optimized for iPads.

As usual, you can use this item freely for your personal use or share it among friends. However, please note that we still own all the copyright for these illustrations so no reselling is allowed. If you want to host this file on your own server to share, we would really appreciate it if you could provide a back link to our site and mention Wizmaya.

No need to register to grab these ones. Download by clicking on the thumbnails below and save the bigger images on the pop up window. By downloading our files, you agree to our terms and conditions as well as our privacy policy.

If you like them, we would really appreciate it if you can share this post via the social network icons below. Cheers!

Our Thanksgiving freebie, just for you!

Thanksgiving is near, and to celebrate it we’re giving out this cute little turkey cartoon character set wearing a pilgrim hat. There are 4 poses available in this pack, all in vectors.

Included in the ZIP file: EPS and AI files in CS version. Transparent PNG files for each pose are also included.

As usual, you can use this item freely for your personal use or share it among friends. However, please note that we still own all the copyright for this illustration so no reselling is allowed. If you want to host this file on your own server to share, we would really appreciate it if you could provide a back link to our site and mention Wizmaya.

Before downloading the file, you need to register to our site first. This is our way to expand our business connection and build traffic to our site. By downloading our files, you agree to our terms and conditions as well as our privacy policy.

If you find this freebie useful, we would really appreciate it if you can share this post via the social network icons below. Cheers!

So far I have found that Brandstack offers the best quality logos, decent exclusive pricing and royalty cut for the designer. Lots of amazing talents there. Unfortunately there has been this negative rumors going around Brandstack at the moment so I’m going to wait until it settles down first. 99designs’ Logo Store has been out for a while now, but it lacks the quality in my opinion so I have never been tempted to sell there.

Then there’s Graphicriver’s ‘Logo Templates’. It has just been opened for public a few weeks ago, and it looks promising despite the limited logo licensing options. They only offer a flat $29 regular license for the stock logos and no exclusivity (a logo template can be bought several times by different clients). So why is it ‘promising’? Well, I said that based on my own experience. To test the water, I reluctantly put up 4 logos up for sale in the first week they open. To my surprise, some of them were sold rather quickly and a week later I have got 5 prospective clients contacting me, asking to buy our logos exclusively. I turned down 3 (because the logos they wanted were already sold at least once to some other guys), accepted 1 (removed the requested logo from the Graphicriver’s marketplace and sold it to him exclusively), and the other one ended up as a full custom logo job. Not bad at all!

Now we have 9 logo templates up, have generated 15 sales from them, and have got 3 custom logo design projects from prospective clients who contacted us from our Graphicriver’s profile page. Moral of the story so far: Graphicriver is worth it. Not for the $29 price tag, but for the longer run. Consider it as a logo portfolio showcase, your site will get a boost of traffic considerably. More traffic is always good. The others? I will skip them for now. It’s better to sell the unused logos via your own site.

So how about it, Envato? When will the exclusive license option will be available for the logo design category? I know we’ll definitely jump into the bandwagon!

Check out our Royalty-Free works on Graphicriver:

         

Hi again! Ready for our next freebie?

By popular requests, this time we are giving out a free vector mascot creation pack… with a robotic theme! Yes, with this pack you can create and customize your very own cartoon robot mascot / character! There are lots of parts that you can combine: heads, bodies, arms, eyes, mouths and accessories! You can easily edit the colors by clicking on each shape and choose a color from the color palette. For best results, don’t hesitate to resize those shapes!

Included in the ZIP file: EPS and AI files in both CS and CS5 versions. Please remember that you need at least Adobe CS version to open the vector files because there are lots of transparency effects used for the illustration.

As usual, you can use this item freely for your personal use or share it among friends. However, please note that we still own all the copyright for this illustration so no reselling is allowed. If you want to host this file on your own server to share, we would really appreciate it if you could provide a back link to our site and mention Wizmaya.

Before downloading the file, you need to register to our site first. This is our way to expand our business connection and build traffic to our site. By downloading our files, you agree to our terms and conditions as well as our privacy policy.

If you find this freebie useful, we would really appreciate it if you can share this post via the social network icons below. Cheers!