As we work on a brand new russian-speaking portal (in fact it is planned to be bilingual) I had a task for one of the designers to create a logo that would incorporate some sort of russian ancient hut, such as house built of wooden poles… Sounds simple enough, designer is russian, he knows what the hut looks like since 50% of all tales deal with a hut in a woods…
You have no idea what kind of strange and miserable constructions I was presented with. Just the least scary ones:
Talk about bait and switch. Hired a desiger to redo the design on Zealus.com. After a week of “hard” work he IMs me and offers instead of creating the site to the specs, another thing, build completely on flash… It’s like if you went to McDonalds and ordered a double cheeseburger for 99 cents they waited for half hour and instead of your order offered you a Big mac for $5.95 + tax.
Having your own business is so much fun… I couldn’t have imagined…
While on the way of redesigning the Zealus’s web site, I have decided to have a logo. The final version that we all agreed on is this.
Next step – drafting the web site itself 🙂