Create a billboard ad, win £500
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- orchid
Would see your artwork on a 10x13.5m poster wrapping Cordy House, Shoreditch? There's a £500 prize and 2 Bestival passes on offer for the best piece.
It needs to include Glacéau vitaminwater bottles, and should be on a generally summery theme. Beyond that though, it's up to you. Illustration, photography, mixed media and anything else you can use to cover the space all accepted.
Show us your work at http://sn.im/ixkej
- fiesta0
FUCK CROWD SOURCING.
and fuck shit sugary drinks that call themselves water to sell to fucking morons
- neue75_bold0
holy shit, mixed media even, for real?
- Horp0
What you mean is: you need to commission someone creative to generate an effective memorable and eyecatching visual billboard ad, site specific, to promote your client, Glacéau vitaminwater, for the crucial summer retail season, bit you only have 500 quid and a couple of concert tickets, and you can't afford to pay for pitch work.
- moth0
You should take note orchid.
I believe a design industry recruitment agency once came here and tried the same trick with disastrous consequences.
Anyone got the link to the thread/public apology?
- moth0
Ah here we go:
http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentbl…http://www.qbn.com/topics/560596…
"As part of the experimentation, I started a contest at 99Designs offering $500 for a "redesign" of our homepage. We asked contestants to keep all the elements, the colors, and the top navigation, and submit their ideas. In doing so, I semi-wittingly unleashed a boat-load of ire.
I say "semi" because I knew there was some controversy in the design world about the "ethics" of contests or crowd-sourcing more generally. I just didn't realize how much designers hated them. The comments posted on this thread on QBN have been, um, unflattering. People have also been commenting, critically though more civilly, on our Facebook page."
Still think it's a good idea?
- iheartfun0
FUCK OFF and DIE!
- shitehawke0
Holy fucking shit nairn, im cracking up here. Do you have the template, Im on for a PSB too.
orchid, is this better or worse than the grotesque nature of MP's expenses claims, at a time when most taxpayers are finding it hard to get by?
- Shaney0
A possible £500 for a bill board?
No.
But the VitTwat thing has legs, hope it sticks
- hans_glib0
from that aquent blog:
"I would say the experience was bad for both reasons. The designs weren't great (with all due respect to those who submitted them) and the hate mail etc. was, of course, a bummer."
no... you don't say......
- Autokern0
The competition just started:
http://www.qbn.com/topics/593515…
- Horp0
I tell you what, I fucking hope I win.
- akrokdesign0
LOWBALLERS!!!
