HuffingtonPost Spec Logo?
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- dbloc0
I've got a horrible idea.
- monospaced0
^ what do you expect the AIGA to do?
- < are you serious?canoe
- of coursemonospaced
- aiga is a joke, as it should beraf
- OSFA0
My question is...
WHERE THE FUCK IS AIGA WHEN SHIT LIKE THIS HAPPENS????
- Busy being toothless and irrelevant.Continuity
- finger point gun clickDRIFTMONKEY
- They'll issue a thorough statement. Next month. After Design Envy is ready.hellobotto
- 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:
- 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
- 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.
- 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
Time for a Graphic Design Union?
- ukit0
- OSFA0
hahaha
- 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.
- 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...