WTF is this shit?
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- detritus0
it's a disruptive startup which connects passionate designers from around the globe with savvy clients who need design projects completed in a timely fashion without the usual risk or cost associated with professional design.
- it's crowdsourcing... you know, cause mobs always make sound decisions.monNom
- detritus0
It’s definitely a cliché but there’s no other way to describe it — 99designs was started by designers for designers. Their role at 99designs is to provide a friendly, professional, and secure environment where designers from all walks of life can compete on a level playing field - where they can show off their work, improve their skills, communicate with peers, and win new clients.
- harlequino0
It's like a Thunderdome fight. 1000 designers enter, 1 designer leaves.
- ribit0
from one of the briefs:
"... Looking for an eye catching logo, preferably with some sort of 3d look or beveling! If possible, I've always thought of having a cartoon jet in the line of a fast food drive thru with a pilot's head coming out the side window holding a hamburger."its almost color by numbers!
- OSFA0
It's a site for 'passionate' designers who would like to spend 100+ hours working on a logo, with 73, wait.... 74 revisions in order to win a logo contest. Not only that, but they get $275 for it! Sweet!
- jkmohr0
scary
- kerus0
absolutely awful
- ********0
looks like a bunch of desperate designer looking for a few bucks
100 bucks for a logo, what a fucking joke
- BonSeff0
amateur hour hell-
- TheBlueOne0
I hate this crap that demeans the value of the craft. Falls into the "My barber's son in high school can do some neat stuff with taking the red eye out of our holiday photos..I'm sure he could do a website for you for a hundred bucks or so..."
- kerus0
whats even worse is im sure there a few people there with legitimate talent who don't realize they are just whoring themselves out for pennies on the dollar
- harlequino0
It would be interesting to see the same approach to, say, plumbing, or medical care. Emergency medical care.
- ribit0
hey, stop calling design a 'craft'. its more than that.
- I stand by craft:
http://www.core77.co…TheBlueOne - sure but the craft part is not all of what we do..ribit
- or is it..? (says philosophically with raised eyebrow...)TheBlueOne
- raises eyebrow too, ponders..ribit
- I stand by craft:
- Affluenza0
I'm sure somebody here posted this link here in a similar thread.
I think it's appropriate, even though we are preaching to the choir in these threads.- *Standing ovationTheBlueOne
- I love the piss line...haha!OSFA
- fucking awesomeGucci
- he is right in so many many ways...exador1
- *claps until hands bleed...IRNlun6
- BonSeff0
i actually heard a speech by obama last week where he said that if some people cant afford to go to college, there are other options like being a graphic designer... gah!!
- Wolfboy0
"A design brief is just a summary of what you need designed."
wow, briefing is as simple as that, and there I was being totally unreasonable with all those account handlers down the years who I thought were doing a bad job of extracting a brief from the client.
I am a twat.
- moamoa0
I have never seen so many stolen Vector symbols...
I think they downloaded all possible vector catalogs..
good job TORRENT aka Azureus aka ...
- Wolfboy0
Yeah, but if you found yourself in a position where you thought you had to try and make some money on a site like that how much time would you spend on original designs?
You get what you pay for in this world