I used to love faveup.com! A "desgin inspiration gallery." Really it is a place for designers to put examples of their work for review and to get their name out. I checked it all the time. I thought, what a great resource to see what my peers really think about logos that are being produced. The concept is simple. Designers / Companies upload their designs in Bus. Cards, Logos, CSS sites, and flash sites. Then visitors basically vote on their favorites in 5 heart possibility.

I used to post top thought's work. If you go to http://faveup.com/?page=14 (this may change due to uploads) looking at - 1000Lux - 2D & 3D Concept Design Bureau (permalink) and Lake Park Apartments (permalink).

Issue 1. These two were posted on day apart and have been right next to each other for the life of the posts. the head logo has 608 votes the lake park logo has 322. I think it is clear someone is voting over and over for the head. not to mention the logo posted just 2 days after the head logo was posted only has 162.

Issue 2: The Head logo SUCKS. I am not going into why here but I think it is pretty clear. But the fact that this amateur heap scores a 3 is laughable. Now i am not saying Lake Park should be higher but consider this; Each Page has 10 logos, so I dug through the first 5 pages and here are the numbers:

1 Heart: 0

2 Hearts: 3

3 Hearts: 57

4 Hearts: 0

5 Hearts: 0

Why does this happen? The bad design is getting twice the votes to stack the odds to look better. The bad Designers are voting low on the truly good design to pull it down.

I wont be returning to faveup since I already know everything is a 3.