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Or how I bought the WWF Panda logo from Logo Garden for only $69.00. According to the press release that hit my e-mail account this morning, Logo Garden is “poised to disrupt online logo design and biz card space” with their do-it-yourself logo maker. Ooooh, that does sound swell. Billed as the ‘fastest growing logo [...]
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The launch of another anti-spec work initiative proves that the controversy about crowdsourcing, design contests and free-pitching isn’t going anywhere soon. If there’s a topic of discussion that’s sure to get most designers riled up, it’s spec work (when a designer is expected to design something in the hopes they may get paid for the [...]
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So you’ve finally embraced the ‘new reality’ and decided to enter design contests on a crowdsourcing site? Here’s what you can expect… 1: You will start with the best intentions Having decided to toss your design hat into the crowdsourcing ring, you will treat every contest you enter as sacrosanct and give it your all. [...]
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Logo design contest and crowdsourcing sites market themselves as a superior alternative to working with a freelance designer or design firm, mostly due to the raw number of concepts contest holders will receive. Do they have a point? Is a ‘more for less’ mentality an effective way to get a logo designed? We break it [...]
From time to time all designers and creative types will run into creative block. Here’s some tips on breaking out of it when it happens to you Do something else And I do mean something else. Put down the mouse and/or the pencil and get away from it all. Take in a movie. Watch TV. [...]
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