Clients today can see the biggest and most beauteous things in the world, built by designers who command excellent salaries or exceptional passion. However, clients still expect me to produce same but for $100.

Basically, what I see is a whole lot of uneducated clients, who have bought into a culture of cheap and can’t afford or refuse to look at paying any more for services their grandson can do for free (albeit of a much poorer quality).

I do see a lot of work which is rushed, half finished and of bad quality and I do get good paying jobs fixing these up.

Just my 2c

Nice work, I’m loving the new lions – by Elmwood I believe.

Personally, the Swiss logo would have gone down in the group stages as the style doesn’t flow well into the character outline (as you mentioned), and the AS being on a different layer to the F creates some weird negative space between the text lines for me.

I think Germany or Brazil would have been the winner for me, both are very distinctly related to their respective countries, and both offer a very modern & clean layout with great balance. I think Germany would have won by a nose because of it’s uniqueness though.

I’m really disappointed with my homeland of Australia for their font choice, but I really like the mark (and the A-league one is decent too).

@Doug Bartow I agree that these are indeed crests but in todays football climate where money rules football with an iron fist you could say that teams are seen as businesses than teams as such. Take a look at the Manchester United crest for example. When they floated on the stock exchange they removed the words “Football Club”. It’s a sad state of affairs and I wish that football could be just seen as two teams competing against each other, but it’s much more than that these days. Football teams are now perceived as brands & opportunities for investment and therefore I think it’s safe to say that the crests that identify them are logos also.