@irvingtorresyc I feel like it comes down to supply and demand. How much does financial success in business correlate to design? How many designers are there? Generally when I see 'pay what you want' like in the music industry, it means that there are too many people that want to do something and not enough value being produced. Especially with a lot of front end engineers being more than sufficient at getting most standard design work done. No disrespect to the designer world. A good designer is amazing to work with :).

@irvingtorresyc Smart business people understand and demand high quality designs and pay for it, and only high quality designers can produce it - just like hiring a composer vs generating some music with some loops and an novice pianist. It is a little different than hiring programmers of course because a mediocre programmer probably won't starve like a mediocre artist. I don't think the designs or concepts were anything special either, though looking at them gave me an idea for something much better.

@blainehatab I can definitely see your point about supply and demand. No disrespect taken. I do however believe that there are better ways of dealing with this. When I started out as a designer I started with low rates and I made it known that I was building my portfolio but doing stuff for free is not ok. You wouldn't expect a new restaurant to give their food away for free to "build their portfolio" would you? Why should designers be expected to do this? I also think that this page was just set up as a publicity stunt so let's see if Fairpixels actually keeps their commitment of doing this weekly and giving away their extra "design proposals piling up on our hard drives".

@irvingtorresyc I don't think the restaurant comparison is fair. If they have a restaurant then they have already put 100s of thousands of dollars on the line and can't continue unless they get revenue. It takes almost no money for a designer to start learning and practicing design. I'd say that the restaurant owner who made thousands of free meals before he/she started their their restaurant is the exact same thing as a designer using one of these sites and posting there work up for people to see.

@bentossell totally agree :) However, the parent company (http://fairpixels.co) is offering a pretty interesting scheme for custom logos again, depends on what a brand wants..

@yoavanaki the concept you descsribe was the original idea behind BrandStack, which now operates as www.brandcrowd.com

@aramiggs I agree. The idea of removing purchased logos seems right on track - but then how do you get all the folks using that logo as a placeholder to... Stop using it as a placeholder.