A logo is an important aspect of brand building, business identity and the corporate image. That is why it is always recommended that you hire a professional logo design company so that you can get a unique logo design with all legal rights to use it whatever way you like.
Still there are many small businesses that try to use their own skills to create a logo design for their business. It is all right to do that if you think you have enough skills, right software and creative juices to come up with a wonderful logo design by yourself. However, it is still highly recommended that you hire a professional logo designer to do the job. In fact many graphic designers hire other designers to create logo designs for their businesses.
Using free art like images and clip art from free resources on the internet is usually what people use when they are creating their own free logo designs. Even though it might be mentioned on these websites that you are free to use these images in your logo design. You are still not free to use them as your business identity or trademark. There are always some hidden complexities with these free images on the web. Make sure that you read the terms of usage before actually using any such image in your logo design.
