Crowdsourcing Design
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Article on WIRED today about "crowdsourcing" sites like 99designs which engage designers to do spec work submissions for paltry sums.
http://blog.wired.com/business/2…
Let them know what you think.
(I did.)
- OSFA0
I'm still waiting for the 'let's burn their fucking headquarters! (if there are any)' article or thread...
- jevad0
Welcome to last week
- lvl_130
and i just want to point out again that it is funny that wired actually owns the url http://www.crowdsourcing.com
- that's because they coined th phrase apparentlyTerminal27
- homeostatic0
The article isn't last week. It's this week. Who cares if people here discuss it. We need to let THEM know what we think of it.
- johndiggity0
i think it's bad and i don't like it.
- OSFA0
Is this the cunt that wrote the article? hahaha! looks like a junior AE!
- homeostatic0
This is the same magazine that presided over the 90s euphoric vaporware orgy. Their unabashed enthusiasm for every new concept is a bit staggering. They would have been fucking die hard Marxists right after reading the Manifesto.
- ian0
I would very much like to burn the cunt who came up with the phrase 'crowdsourcing'. Wanker. Just another addition to my already full buzzword bingo card.
- Point50
fuck it, let's crowdsource everything. Anyone need open heart surgery? I'll do it for $240
- Knuckleberry0
"I am going to to get the pitchforks, someone else get the fire... Riot!!" - From yours truly.
- OSFA0
Ha! QBN is cited on the NOSPEC website regarding the 'experiment' Aquent tried to pull...
- monkeyshine0
Okay, I said this yesterday but I'm going to have to repeat myself.
THIS IS NOT CROWDSOURCING!!! Crowdsourcing is distributed problem-solving where a group (the masses) collectively work to solve a problem.
- whereas the problem isn't some cheapass trying to get cheap labor or spec work.monkeyshine
- Understood. It might work even for something COOPERATIVE like a film production.homeostatic
- This is just bargain basement, amateur hour.homeostatic
- homeostatic0
You can't let the market drive everything with no regards to professionalism. That's why our discount airline pilots have 1/5 the experience they did in the 70s; our homes look like grotesque McDonalds Happy Meal boxes; and everybody's parents retirement has been evaporated. This is bullshit.
- plash0
as with istockphoto. one tool in the bag of tricks.
i dont use istock for anything but generic placeholders. i tell my clients that that images used are not final and we have to decide when the time is right. a tool used to help the design process along.the fear i hear in some of you is shameful.
Are you that easily replaced?!?
i don't worry about my chances to get work; you get what you pay for and crowdsourcing is just that. a shotgun approach to a complex problem. anyway trash talking only makes you look foolish.- Oh, you mean the same way real architects weren't replaced by developers' hacks?homeostatic
- akrokdesign0
by the way, showing a ton of logos to the client isn't the best way. it change the rolls, totally. the client will neat pick and runs the show like a dictator.
- JSK0
Design is not manufacturing, it is an advisory role.
- akrokdesign0
there is probably an other side of the coin. with so low prices, how can any of them actually paid for programs and fonts.
i can't add photography as it has already been hit in the face. and no ones pay 350 for a photo anymore. (its 5 to 30 bucks now)
- homeostatic0
I don't use stock photos. I insist upon getting key art from an existing campaign / film production or shooting my own. Stock photos are only good for collage objects or textures.
- JSK0
I think stock photo has its place. I used to use them for representation of location / shot comp etc
But hardly for actual final work.