HuffingtonPost Spec Logo?
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- Kiino0
So here's Gawker getting on the case...at this posting roughly 20k views and over 150 comments. Although the majority of comments are by people with 0 consideration for creatives, it's still becoming an awareness raising issue. Good thing since a certain portion of Gawker readers are actually legit creative industry shot callers:
- ukit0
- Continuity0
Ah, a comment from HuffPost, finally.
'UPDATE, August 15: We asked fans of HuffPost Politics to submit suggestions for social media icon designs as a fun way of enabling them to express their passion for politics -- and for HuffPost. As readers of our site know, we frequently engage our community with requests for feedback and suggestions. So while AOL Huffington Post Media Group employs an in-house team of more than 30 talented designers, we felt this would be a lighthearted way to encourage HuffPost Politics users to express another side of their talents.'
- Translation: 'We fucked up, and this how we backpeddle, without ever having to admit to it.'Continuity
- OSFA0
hahaha
- Continuity0
I've been keeping an eye on the comments; HP are getting a serious bollocking, and not a single peep of a response. Pretty low quality.
- ukit0
I love the half-assed nature of the whole thing
"For the next week or so, we'll be accepting your proposed designs for a new HuffPost Politics logo. Once we have a good group together, we'll put them all up for a vote, which will inform the final pick."
So, we don't actually trust our users to make a good choice. The vote is strictly for marketing purposes.
"If yours wins, your icon will be used to represent this channel all over the interwebs -- with credit to you, of course."
Oh wow, all over the interwebs! Sheesh, at least 99 Designs at least pays you something.
- canoe0
This is a good opportunity for all of us to create a parody logo, I'm sure if there are enough of us, we could make a spectacle... which could create enough news to maybe get some attention on this bullshit branding model.
- "The guys for a better tomorrow finally made a collective voice among their cynical members."canoe
- Aa770
they don't pay their writers, so what would make anyone think they would pay designers?
- i_monk0
Related... Why is every other industry so quick to move on copyright or patent infringement, but we have little more than half-assed name and shame campaigns that puts the onus on the designer to defend himself from the Br_tt B_shes of the world?
- OSFA0
Not saying they should be a web-police, but I think that HP or other companies would actually pay attention or listen, if something official as AIGA contacts them, etc... just saying...
- i_monk0
Time for a Graphic Design Union?
- OSFA0
What should they do? gather a team of representatives, contact Huffington Post and explain to them how this business works. Maybe HP understands, accepts they fuck up and shut it down (showing millions of business owners and 'clients' that design is not a joke). And if they don't, AIGA would get SOME sort of credibility from designers who pay WAY too much for a useless membership...
- BonSeff0
what is aiga gonna do? take their birthday away? they can't be the world police of other company's shitty business practices.
anyhoo, i am sure huffpo is gonna say this is our way of giving back to our community and giving them some ownership bla bla bla
- hellobotto0
Looking forward to seeing the lead in their Business section tomorrow about corporations underpaying, if paying at all, their workforce.
I know they know that "participation is compensation" is no way to move folks out of a stagnant economy as evidenced by all the little pictures of economists and smart people that adorn the periphery.
Besides, seeing as HP has been down this road before with columnists, it be a surprise that designers, too, like to be paid for time spent and intellectual property.