Spec Work
Now that Gap has announced they’re abandoning their new logo, as well as passing on crowdsourcing for further development, perhaps we should take a look for lessons learned After an Internet backlash about the new Gap logo late last week, the clothing retailer has now backed down, returning to their original mark, as well as [...]
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If there’s ever been an issue that ignites passion in the design community, it is spec work, its repackaged cousin design contests, and its cousin-in-disguise, crowdsourcing. There are two sides to the issue, and neither seems willing, or able, to give the other much sway. In this first of a two part series, we take [...]
The bitter-free, September wrap-up, Tip o’ the Pint, weekend edition of our regular snippets feature. Throwing a little link love to blogs, websites, logos and logo design articles we kinda dug. To David Airey. Actually, that should be two pints to UK designer David, author of Logo Design Love (book review here). The first is [...]
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It’s cheap and it’s easy to get something designed at The Design Contest Factory. Just hurry up, before people start catching on Getting something designed at The Design Contest Factory is real easy. Even though you could totally do it yourself, we’ll help you run a “design contest”, using something everyone’s calling “crowdsourcing”. That’s where [...]
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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