crowdsourcing design
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- nadnerb
"Witness the upheaval afflicting the design industry, sparked by the rise of so-called "spec design" sites like crowdSpring and 99designs. Customers post creative briefs directly to the community, which then competes to create a design that best fits the clients' needs. A typical "assignment" will draw dozens of submissions. The winner receives a nominal fee (as little as $200)"
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- Frosty_spl0
Nominal fee. Heh.
- lvl_130
the funniest shit is the fact that wired owns the url
http://www.crowdsourcing.com
- UKV0
"[spec] has always been considered the work of last resort for writers, designers and other creative professionals." and they should have added: "done by the creative professionals of last resort."
- monkeyshine0
a) this has been much debated and hashed out here
b) spec work is not crowdsourcing and those who use that term this way are asshats.- however, is crowd-sourcing spec work?lukusW
- No, it is not.monkeyshine
- jfletcher0
interesting note on iStockPhoto, comparing it to design "spec" work.