the case against crowdsourcing
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- TheBlueOne0
It will suck.
- dropdown0
Ask if they would do their BEST work, if they didn't know if they would get paid for it.
- formed0
Competitions aren't inherently bad, it's when the designers are abused or taken advantage of (which, of course, is most of the time) that they suck.
If they insist and you are ok with it (which, if you want to get paid to design it, you aren't), I'd tell them that they need to make a budget for the competition, both for those that enter and the winner.
Ask for RFQ's from people or firms, select 5 or so, give them the brief, pay them once you get the designs, etc., etc.
This assumes your client's business is worth the effort. For example, in architecture, we did this for a $150mil building (and won, and it never got built) because it was worth the financial risk. While we lost man hours, we did get enough to cover printing and misc. costs.
My guess is they just want to save money, not get the best design, so that suggestion of paying people would be money "thrown" away, which would make them not want to do it.
- airey0
if they're already heading in that direction you might have to cut your losses. an option you might have would be to let them do it and tell us what it is. as many of us as possible enter and enter with real shite. you do a few versions yourself and when the comp closes you can show your work and how much better it is compared to the crap in the comp.
- dropdown0
Make something up about how they would never "legally" hold the rights to the logo. That should scare them off.
- Pupsipu0
yea like clients could tell the difference