The entry we chose happened to be done in Illustrator, and I suspect a lot of them are. You can specify in the contest if you want vector or don't care.
Good to know. We'll keep it in mind for future work. We're not at all dissatisfied with our SitePoint experience, though. At least a quarter of the entries are top of the line professional work, and we're now fighting it out to figure out which one is our favorite--not because there aren't enough good entries, but because there are too many really good ones to choose from.
SitePoint will charge you money too. This is a good thing; it means that you aren't competing with contest holders that are not as serious.
I've never held a contest myself, but I have worked on a project with a design from a SitePoint project and the quality was quite good for the cost. Pro designers hate the idea of spec work, but the truth is that because competition is tough, the top logos generally look quite nice.
$30 at SitePoint, plus they offer extra options. We opted not to do anything extra, and instead put all of the money into the prize ($500 in this case, which made it the highest logo prize on the site at the time).
They have a forum where you post your prize (usually $100-$300) and parameters, and a bunch of designers compete, revising to your feedback, all in public. Some of the results are very nice.
Nice to know. I hadn't heard of that before. While it looks like a pretty high caliber bunch of designers frequent the site and contribute to the contests, the actual infrastructure for running the contests is not nearly as nice as what SitePoint has. SitePoint used to be "just a forum", but they've put a lot of thought and effort into the contests application--it works really well.
http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?cont...