eyeka design competition
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- kelpie0
bang on up there Bottlerocket. However, far fetched as it may seem to us in a pro context, I actually do think the rise of this is damaging in a wider sense - anything which encourages a view of design services as something which can be approached in this way (commoditised), regardless of which end of the market its happening in, is bad for the whole. This low end of the market is also where a lot of small shops, and sole traders are working in as well and I can see this altering and jading the relationship between buyers and sellers in a very harmful way.
A logo for £350 by a small trader who knows what he's doing and has a working relationship with you, or spend £50 on a 'competition'?
I imagine in some cases, and more and more as this becomes the norm, there won't even be realisation of what a bad deal this really is in a clients mind; it'll just 'seem' to make business sense.
If you take the little, pointless things out of the food chain, the whole ecology dies.
- and hellfire and brimstone will rain from the sky! and the dead will rise from the earth! dogs and cats, living together!"kelpie