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When dealing with the rise of spec-work-fueled crowdsourcing and logo design contest sites, many designers instinctually know that spec-work is bad news for everybody involved (except, perhaps, the companies who skim a percentage of the design contest ‘winnings’). Despite that gut ‘feeling’, many designers grapple with explaining the pitfalls of spec-work to their clients, often [...]
Love ‘m or hate ‘em , don’t think there’s a designer around that hasn’t heard about 99designs, named for the supposed average number of entries that a contest holder gets submitted to their contests. Well, as this crowdsourcing racket is all about the numbers, what’s better than 99designs? I suppose 110 designs would be better. [...]
An innovative logo gets stuck, a shameless (but belated) plug, a crowdsourced logo contest causes an uproar and two others go awry. Innovative logo gets stuck When the Smithsonian Institute unveiled their new Department of Innovation blog and representative logo, critics were quick to pounce on the fact that the logo didn’t work. Not visually, [...]
It’s Stanley Cup season and playoff fever is heating up. A Vancouver-based car dealership, though, has been told to cool it. According to the CBC, the manager of Kingsway Honda, Doug Lum, received word from the NHL’s legal department that a Pro-Canucks sign displayed across the dealership’s windows had to go. According to the notice [...]
Jumping on yet another bandwagon department, Stan Lee Foundation crowdsources, Crowdspring logo brings back childhood memories and a fascinating ‘whistle blower’ read about writing on spec. Don’t suppose you missed the new Gap logo fiasco from next week? If you didn’t, skip the next four sentences. If you did, I’ll sum up. Gap announced a [...]
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