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Latest entry into the increasingly crowded design contest market is some outfit out of Chicago calling themselves Crowdspring. Despite their lofty claims to the contrary – if we could refer to it as design crowdsourcing, that would be peachy – it’s just another website that boasts a load of folks working for free (in the [...]
Despite being exploitative, unfair, bad for business, downright unethical and even potentially illegal, is there still a place for logo contests in the design world? Can an prudent contest business owner still get a decent logo for pennies on the dollar through a design contest site or forum? Outside chance – maybe. More likely – [...]
Despite our umpteenth promise to leave this particular subject alone, the battle over design contests continues unabated, with another round of tit-for-tat discussions opening up at various points about the web this week. Site Point – an Australian web developer and ‘spec’ site – fired the opening salvo with a positively giddy ‘thumbs up’ interview [...]
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Before I begin I should probably point out that I’m not a lawyer, nor do I play one on the tee vee. Thus, my legal advice, and whatever opinions I offer, are worth exactly what you paid for them. Nada. Having said that, I’m of the opinion that logo design contests, not the cute effort [...]
Continue reading about Are logo design contest sites even legal?
Readers of The Factor and visitors to our main site know that a pet peeve around here is the advent, and spread, of the logo design contest. Alas, our repeated teeth gnashing and venting did nothing to stem the tide, so we’ve pretty well given up on pointing out how bad logo design contests are [...]
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