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.

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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.

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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!

Fact is, there are so many different factors to be considered before selling a logo design as-is. When branding is involved, it’s just not that easy to decide.

Unused logo concepts: keep, discard or sell them?

With hundreds of rejected logo design concepts and proposals, we are having a hard time keeping track of them. We even have lost quite many of them because of fried hard drives, missing data CDs and DVDs etc. Every time a client hires us for a logo project, we usually end up collecting at least 5 unused design concepts in the end. Sometimes, if not all the time, I personally think those unused concepts were even better visually and conceptually than the final ones chosen by clients!

This really got me thinking. I want to make our rejected logo concepts useful somehow, and one reasonable option is to sell them ‘as-is’, as pre-made logos. Quality wise, they are definitely above average (yes, I’m being a bit subjective here, but some of them even made it to several logo design books and featured on several web sites, so they can’t be that bad right?) Furthermore, Wizmaya is quite well-known for its illustrative approach to logo designs, so they stand better chance in the competition against the generic, common, abstract logos. Definitely a niche market, but I’m after it. However, I do have my doubts and own concerns about selling ‘stock’ logos.

1.  Will it hurt our reputation?

Last thing I want is to be branded ‘Cheap Logo Designer’ by the community. Usually, by selling cheap ready-made logos, people will judge that you are a second-rate designer who lives in one of those poor, third world country, who still lacks the experience and worship the dollar (well they mostly get the country part right though). This will eventually lead to many, MANY cases of me turning down (prospective) clients because they thought we can create them a fully customized logo for $50 or less!  I have worked hard in the past 2 years to build up Wizmaya’s reputation and convincing clients that we are worth our rates. I surely don’t want this stock-logo-selling decision throws me off-balance again.

2.  Where to sell them?

There are plenty of web sites which you can join as a contributor and put your stock logos up for sale on their sites. Finding them is the easy part. It is a lot harder (edit: VERY HARD) to find out whether those sites are well-reputable, has fair pricing, offer decent commission cut for the designer, and offer exclusive license (one-time purchase) for the logos. I personally don’t want to join stock logo sites which are full with gazillions of clip-artsy, ugly logos. Again, we have a reputation to maintain. I have come up with a short list of sites that are worth experimenting (Brandstack, 99design Logo Store, Graphicriver), but I will discuss them in more details another time, in another article. Best solution for now in my opinion? Just sell the logos via your own web site. Less traffic, but your rules!

Some of our unused logo concepts. On sale on several sites.

3.  How much?

Another hard-to-answer question. Selling ready-made logos is definitely different from creating a logo design from scratch, so logically the price tag for stock logos should be lower (cheaper). But how much cheaper? For me, it really depends on the logo concept / idea itself as well as the license involved. Great logo visual concept is not that easy to come up with, so they should be more expensive. Add a few more bucks when a ‘smart’ brand name is also provided, and domain name is still available. (This is why we always try to come up with a good, original brand name to complement our stock logos for sale). So how much? Roughly about $450 for exclusive license, and somewhere around $50 for non-exclusive license (multiple purchases possible) is decent. (Important note: I’m still not sure about this non-exclusive license for a logo, but apparently they exist).

4.  Should the logos be editable for further customization?

Face it, people just love to customize. Especially when it involves their brands, business, products or companies. For this reason, I think it’s always best to offer stock logos with generic fonts so they can always replace the brand name with their own’s. (Yes, that means ‘stock logos’ are actually ‘half-a-logo’s because you don’t really need to design the typeface! Yay!) Aside from that, any more customization is too far of a stretch in my opinion, unless the client can afford to pay us extra.

Those are the 4 main issues that I’m very concerned with in regards to selling our unused logo concepts as ‘stock logos’. At the moment I’m still experimenting a few things on different sites, targeting different markets. I’m being very cautious and always picky in selecting which logos to sell, with what license and where. I’ll keep track on the progress and hopefully I’ll be able to share some of the results with you guys in the future article.

So what about you? What’s your opinion? Do share!

Got plenty of spare time today, I did some doodles and ended up drawing this fun rendition of Tintin. Everything is done in Adobe Illustrator as usual, except the background lighting (Photoshop). I dedicate this one to the upcoming Tintin movie (can’t wait!)  Click the image if you want to see the larger version.

Anyway, here’s my fun rendition of Son Goku in his signature outfit. Everything is done in Adobe Illustrator, including the background effect. You can click the image for a bigger version. Hope you like it!

PS: Toriyama-sensei, you’re the BEST!  ;)