Comments on: Is Spec Work evil? http://www.thelogofactory.com Design studio specializing in logo design & corporate identity Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:50:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Jake http://www.thelogofactory.com/designer-lounge/is-spec-work-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-2177 Jake Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:59:52 +0000 http://www.thelogofactory.com/?page_id=2443#comment-2177 Watching the linked Youtube discussion, I believe, just refusing spec without alternatives won't do. Young designers need a place where they can meet serious clients and are able to do quality design with a concept, and clients will need a place to find them. Crowdsourced sites present easy to use platforms, that reduce the design process to an assembly line of design elements. As in fast food, things that are easy to get are neither good for the client, nor the service person. The product, cut down to bare essentials, suffers in the process and the designer, originally able of concept creation and consulting is reduced to an assembly line laborer, without secure pay. The only ones who really profit from this business are the ones who operate Crowdsourcing sites. Watching the linked Youtube discussion, I believe, just refusing spec without alternatives won’t do. Young designers need a place where they can meet serious clients and are able to do quality design with a concept, and clients will need a place to find them.

Crowdsourced sites present easy to use platforms, that reduce the design process to an assembly line of design elements. As in fast food, things that are easy to get are neither good for the client, nor the service person. The product, cut down to bare essentials, suffers in the process and the designer, originally able of concept creation and consulting is reduced to an assembly line laborer, without secure pay.
The only ones who really profit from this business are the ones who operate Crowdsourcing sites.

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