Dont work for Google
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- benfal99
From Gizmodo:
Google is having artists make custom skins for its Chrome Browser, which is pretty cool. Much less cool, however, is that one of the biggest companies in the world refuses to pay the artists.Many of the established artists are refusing to hand over their work to Google for no cash based on promises of free exposure.
"I have done gift cards for Target that are in stores nationwide and animations for Nickelodeon that run 24 hours a day worldwide on cable TV," Melinda Beck, an illustrator who is based in Brooklyn, wrote in an e-mail message to Google rejecting its offer. "Both of these jobs were high-profile and gave my work great exposure but both clients still paid me."
From me:
Come on Google! WTH!
- baseline_shift0
whys everyone always pickin on google? Its not their fault they are strapped for cash!
- ********0
google my ass. I use Bing from now on.
- ukit0
No wonder they won't pay. Her work is just a bunch of ink splotches.
- lolbaseline_shift
- loololjimzyk
- she must be a confused and sick individual.instrmntl
- GeorgesII0
"I have done gift cards for Target that are in stores nationwide and animations for Nickelodeon that run 24 hours a day worldwide on cable TV," Melinda Beck, an illustrator who is based in Brooklyn, wrote in an e-mail message to Google rejecting its offer. "Both of these jobs were high-profile and gave my work great exposure but both clients still paid me."
enough said
- monospaced0
Goddamn right they should pay. It's not like Google's forking over an arm and a leg for advertising in the first place. I'm sure they can afford this.
- ********0
"But it'll be good for your portfolio"
- I think the time has come to start hating Google********
- google's down to 424. maybe when they reach 500 again they can pay.instrmntl
- I think the time has come to start hating Google
- benfal990
just a little respect for the graphic designers... Its a job ffs!
- GeorgesII0
let's start a melinda vs google thread and see what page rank we get,
who's with me
http://www.melindabeck.com/ vs http://www.google.com/
- jamble0
Google should set up some sort of "contest" where loads of "designers" can submit their designs and if google like them they might pay for them.
I reckon there's a business plan in there somewhere..
- monospaced0
What's stopping designers from selling their custom-designed skins?
- Besides the jackass designers who give them away for free?monospaced
- ********0
just another sign that googles corporate culture has absolutely no respect for design
- that is clear from their web site and stupid custom logosfooler2
- ********0
From now on I am going to hate google
- shitehawke0
I used to work for google, went freelance. They called me to come in but when I showed up for work they couldn't find me a desk.
True story.
- ...shitehawke
- was it a trap?********
- haha really? :Pbenfal99
- you got paid though, right?monospaced
- actually thats a complete lie, said for comedy value only. As you were.shitehawke
- For a minute there I thought we were work neighbours, I was on the other side of Grand Canal..raf
- ok_not_ok0
wahh
- fooler20
plus they're a bunch of unholy non patriotic left wingers and here's the proof...
- gfy, foolermonospaced
- sarcasm does not carry well over the internetfooler2
- no it does, its just not well received sometimes. I read that article and laughed my ass off.shitehawke
- alright, so you're being sarcastic...we're cool thenmonospaced
- raf0
I don't see what your problem is. It is still a free market, I hope. There is a lot of work for shitty money (or exposure) out there - you just don't waste time discussing it, looking for well paid gigs. How's that different?
Or are you screaming "client X has ridiculously small budget!"?
- 7point340
did google ever promise to pay anything for this?
no?
then shut the fuck up!
- inhaler970
she claims to have animations that run on nickelodeon and has done gift cards for target.
If google isnt paying, then dont do work for google. That simple.. Yeah they are a big company, yeah they should pay, but fuck if they dont wanna pay, DONT TAKE THE JOB! Let them get some fuck ass student to do the work for free.
HEres a quote from the NYtimes article
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/1…But some, like Gary Taxali, were not impressed. Mr. Taxali, an illustrator based in Toronto whose work has appeared in publications like Time, Newsweek and Fortune, received a call in April from a member of Google’s marketing department. According to Mr. Taxali, the Google representative explained that the project will let users customize Google Chrome pages with artist-designed “skins” in their borders.
“The first question I asked,” Mr. Taxali said in a recent interview, “is ‘What’s the fee?’”
Mr. Taxali said that when he was told Google would pay nothing, he declined.
In the ensuing weeks, a tide of indignation toward Google swelled among illustrators, who stay connected through Drawger, a Web site.
In a posting to Drawger on April 28, Mr. Taxali bemoaned the Google request — and that some struggling publications were reducing fees to illustrators by nearly half.
- Gary Taxali teached us during a full week at my university in 2006 :Dbenfal99
- taught.zenmasterfoo