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How design contest and crowdsourcing sites refund and guarantee policies protect their service charges while the risk and exposure of unpaid designers, working on spec, is almost 100% whether contests are ‘guaranteed’ or not. We’ll begin this post with a simple question. What do spec, design contest and crowdsourcing sites sell? Logo design? Uh-uh. Web [...]
AIGA takes on Seattle music festival Bumbershoot, the crowdsourcing secrets ‘They’ are keeping from you (according to Mycroburst anyway) and an attempt to rebrand crowdsourcing itself by 99designs and Genius Rocket. Previously, and every year, Seattle’s famous music festival Bumbershoot, has contracted a local designer, or design firm, to come up with the creatives for [...]
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The London Olympic Games organizing committee unveiled their new mascots Wenlock and Mandeville Wednesday. Kiddies loved them, adults scratched their heads and the interwebs went nuts. Again. In this era of internet freakouts and Twitter Storms, seems there’s not a brand related rollout that doesn’t ignite one. Especially when it comes to Olympic branding rollouts. [...]
Over the next week, if you visit the website of any leading design or advertising agency in Belgium, you’re likely to find a white screen and message that looks something like this: A spec work manifesto? Interesting stuff. Seems a group of Belgian advertising and design firms have banded together in a ‘virtual strike’ to [...]
Wiki defines Schadendreude as a German word that translates into “pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others” and often involves some form of chronic, comical irony. If there was a case of logo design schadendreude, this might be the poster-child, as French-based file sharing enthusiasts are taking great glee in pointing out. To wit: As [...]
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