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Yet another day. Yet another crowdsourcing site Like everyone before them, Hiretheworld.com boast that they’re “turning the graphic design world on its ear”. At least according to their glowing profile in The Vancouver Sun. “In essence, a company looking for something as simple as a logo, or a full-blown image makeover including a website, banner [...]
That’s the amount of unpaid designer time donated by spec work designers to Crowdspring, according to their own statistics. That’s right. Three million, two hundred and sixteen thousand hours. Chicago based Crowdspring sure are big on numbers, statistics and pie charts. In a new blog post entitled Community creative – how we contribute, co-founder Mike [...]
This was posted on The Logo Factory Facebook page photo wall, so I’m not sure what bidding site it was culled from, but here’s the short and skinny – someone “need(s) logo designers to design hundreds of logos for hundreds of different companies.” For a princely sum of five bucks a pop. As tempting as [...]
Selective editing on a recent Forbes article on 99designs Don’t suppose you read this article in Forbes about crowdsourcing and design contests, focused primarily on 99designs? A little more objective that the business magazine’s initial foray into the subject (when they opined that graphic design was a “snooty business“) but that’s not what makes it [...]
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For designers, displaying images, logos and artwork on a website is a two-edged sword. In order to market design services it’s necessary to show work, but it also makes it easy for people to copy images with a simple right mouse click. Myows is a service that aims to change that by helping you protect [...]
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