spec work etc
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The argument from Crowdspring is that their is a catch 22 for design students who are coming out of school and they don't have 3-5 years of experience to take a full time agency job. Well guess what the 3-5 years of experience designers their all fighting to stay employed or out of work and looking. But to those that are just starting they feel this overwhelming hopelessness because of the obvious obstacle that their competing with all these other professionals who have more experience.. And Crowdspring and the other guy up there stated they created an alternate route where designers without experience can work at home on sites like Crowdspring... I guess if you see that as a way to build your career maybe that can work for some individuals. Who are we to judge anyone in this job market but I don't think this alternate path makes a damned bit of sense in my own personal opinion. I can tell you gambling with your time and your creative work is only going to make you miserable as a creative. I also think that you can fight to get a good job by networking and interning first. That way you can witness the way work gets done at higher levels and learn from that process ideally.
I don't agree in blacklisting designers who do this I think your work speaks for itself. I just think that the economy is really that bad. In the good times spec is a part of the agency field big agency's through out spec work for giant bid projects. That being said spec is a part of the payment structure for those agencies that exist on that risk tolerance level and that doesn't equate for design studios that are smaller or freelancers who all need to get paid for their time and cant risk their time for the possible payoff. Meh much has been said about this subject. AIGA's position I hope is to both educate the young designer and the overly eager business professional who wants to buy a pre-made logo or have one competed for.
Spec = risk for designers, Spec = devaluation for designers pay and finally Spec = no respect for the work we do, and design as a whole.