When meeting a Logo Design what are good questions to ask?

Be sure to think about and communicate to your artist what your target market is, what you want your logo to "say" visually about your company, and also try to give him/her some ideas of who your competition is so they can research them.

Any ideas you have should be communicated to the designer, if you can't describe it do a quick sketch on a napkin. Designers are visual people, you'd be surprised how much even the most rudimentary sketch will help. And if there is anything you want to stay away from be sure to communicate this as well.

Ask what the expected turn around is for the whole project, and what kind of time frame you are looking at for each stage of the project, from initial concepts to rough drafts, rough drafts to a final proposal, time between revisions, etc.

Let the designer know what kind of applications you plan to use the logo on. Web, brochures, embroidered polo's, etc.

As much info as you can give about your project is good. Communication is key for both parties throughout your project.

Here's a link to a short blog written by a designer I know from another forum. He talks about a creative brief, which outlines the goals of the client (you) when creating a logo. Read through it, he links to a PDF which is a sample of his own brief he provides to his clients when initiating a logo design.

I'd suggest reading through the PDF and preparing answers to these types of questions and have them ready for your designer. They will love you for it! (At least I would)

Method to the Mayhem: Creative Brief: Client Goals & Expectations

And bravo to you for hiring a professional and staying away from the "contest" sites!

So the meeting went fantastic and I asked pretty much everything everyone suggested here.

She was very pleasant about the fact that I brought some pictures of Logos I liked. She also brought a few samples of the logo and I must say I was very impressed by her work.

She also said she would do an unlimited amount of revisions free of charge, which i was surprised about because she said "I'll do as many revisions as possible until we get it right" - I figured I could get three or four but i won't complain at all.

I also made a contract for her to sign with the agreement of payment, time estimate of completion, and that I would receive all rights for my logo.

She asked me a lot of questions such as what is your target market not as in age demographic which i told her was 18-35 but as in style i suppose - "is it street wear , sport clothing etc" I told her it would sort of be like LRG a fusion between styles Skate/HipHop/ and I'm not sure what Afflictions style is consider but i mention that as well.

She gave her opinion on a drawing I showed and she mention it was not a style she really saw in urban style clothing. I told her artist (hip-hop artist) are making a transition with style, wearing clothes that are fitted closely to them and not as baggy with lots of color mixes in their clothing. I mention N.E.R.D. and Kayne West and Common and she completely understood where i was coming from

I also asked for a vector file and photoshop formats on CD like suggested here. So all in all everything went well.

I'm positive there is more that happened that i forgot to put here but as i said all went well