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Snippets: Crowdsourcing advice for designers, IE6 must die & more unbiased...
Speaking about Microsoft, the Internet Explorer 6 Must Die meme just got a lot louder, with Google announcing that they’d stop supporting IE6 come March. If you’re not on IE6, good for you. If you are...
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EU organic logo design competition winner announced
From the “All’s Well That Ends Well Department”. Back in 2007, the EU (European Union) announced plans to introduce a compulsory organic labeling scheme across all 27 countries, and a couple of years...
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Roh-oh. Winning entry in Cadbury Chocolate’s design contest may have been...
Spec work. Design contests. Crowdsourcing. Does it really matter what label we hang on them? The dangers always remain the same. For years now, we’ve been barking about design contests, and their...
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Spec work hackery redux. More of our work copied & entered into 99designs...
From the “Here We Go Again” Department. No point in rehashing the dangers of logo design contests, save this simple “spec work is bad” equation: A whole bunch anonymous people who may, or may not, be...
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How to enter a logo design contest in ten minutes flat. Without having to...
Don’t want to get labeled as a snooty designer (again), or an elitist gatekeeper (again) so rather than turn this into another “some designers on 99designs swiped our stuff” whiny baby screed (again),...
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Snippets: The wondrously wacky world of online logo design, legal threats and...
When web designer Zach Hornsby decided to write a blog post entitled 99designs is Effectively Ruining Client, Designer Relations he used a picture of 99designs staff to illustrate the piece. That’s...
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Snippets: Battling logos, a couple of Pint Tips, just like 99designs & the...
To effectively describe a website concept in a few lines of type, summing it up in concisely and succinctly, is an art form all of itself. Ain’t easy either, so I positively loved this description of...
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Famous corporate logos & design contests?
It’s not often that I snark on an individual blog post but will this time, partially to illustrate the lengths some companies will go to promote their design contest sites, but mostly ’cause Charlie...
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The Crowdsourcing Dilemma. Spec work, crowdsourcing and Crowdspring on NPR
As evidenced by features on NPR and in Forbes, spec work, crowdsourcing and design contests remain the darlings of the business media. Sadly, many of the inflated claims made are left unchallenged and...
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Creative crowdsourcing & design contests. Hype or reality? Contest holder &...
If there’s ever been an issue that ignites passion in the design community, it is spec work, its repackaged cousin design contests, and its cousin-in-disguise, crowdsourcing. There are two sides to...
View ArticleDefending crowdsourcing & design contests.
The platitudes of spec work. How working for free is su […] The post Defending crowdsourcing & design contests. appeared first on Design Blog Archives. Related posts:Again with the design contests...
View ArticleNumbers – The ever-shifting realities of crowdsourcing and design contest sites.
Criticize spec work, design contests or crowdsourcing s […] The post Numbers – The ever-shifting realities of crowdsourcing and design contest sites. appeared first on Design Blog Archives. Related...
View ArticleWhy logo contests don’t work
Despite being exploitative, unfair, bad for business, downright unethical and even potentially illegal, is there still a place for logo contests in the design world? Can an prudent contest business...
View ArticlePeter Schiff 2010 logo design contest
Don’t usually like to get into political stuff on the blog, but as a wonk, I found this pretty interesting. According to a newly launched website, lots of folks are trying to recruit economic...
View ArticleYet another 99designs logo contest knock-off
Often times, the submissions to logo design contests aren’t very creative. Case in point… Sigh. Every time I write about our work getting jacked and entered into a 99designs logo contest, I usually...
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