Opinion & Ramblings
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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We’re often told that crowdsourcing and design contests aren’t about the money. It’s all about the glory of the ‘little guy’ designing stuff for high profile companies and people that they otherwise wouldn’t have the ‘opportunity’. Hard sentiment to argue against. If it’s true. Remember the dust-up about Guy Kawasaki’s over design contest for his [...]
And why it doesn’t work. Whether you’re poor or not. Some of you may have been told about the so-called ‘poor man’s copyright‘ – that is, using the US Post Office as a method of copyrighting your artwork, and I suppose in context, your spanking new logo design. It often pops up on design forums [...]
Thinking of holding a design contest on yer fave crowdsourcing site? Here’s the top ten under-handed tactics to use to screw over a whole bunch of designers, while still getting lots of free design goodies 10: Invite designers to participate You would think that with the boasted “communities” of 80,000 plus, you wouldn’t have to [...]
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