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- horton0
sorry but i had to stir the pot and bump this for another day... didn't have a chance to get reply last night.
why does everyone think designing youth culture stuff (like snowboards) is this ultimate creative luxury, and worth doing for free? never understood this.
the snowboard industry is HUGE.. like mega million$ every year. so why the hell should companies not be paying LARGE for the #1 selling feature of every board on the shelf; the topsheet artwork. they pay their teams huge salaries, simply because these guys are confident, know their worth and demand it.
and don't kid yourself, these companies know exactly what they're up to.. which is basically getting custom artwork and reprint rights for free, something that they were paying a lot of money for just a couple years ago. wtf is that?
design contests are a horrible nasty trend.. making our profession cheap.