99designs: Bullshit 2.0 | I’m a Proud Weenie! | Blowing Competitions Up, and Other Acts of Good Citizenship
Spec Conversation Roundup:
graphicPUSH: 99designs: Bullshit 2.0
Kevin: “99designs was started by designers for designers”. I am struggling to form the intensely negative, logic-dismantling superlatives I need to accurately convey the sheer depth of absolute bullshit this clump of words was pulled from. This is one of the most hollow and forced statement I have ever seen. It insults everything about the real-world graphic design industry and the hard-working professionals that make a living building long-term client relationships, crafting deep and varied portfolios, and routinely putting their blood, sweat and tears into their work.
Freelance Switch: Freelance Radio, Episode 12: I’m a Proud Weenie!
FS: This episode’s theme is spec work. We talk about our own opinions on the controversial issue, and also refer repeatedly to the No Spec project.
Design Altruism Project: Blowing Competitions Up, and Other Acts of Good Citizenship
David Stairs: From the last weeks of summer onward I am bombarded with e-mail urging me to involve students in “real world” design situations. Without sounding too cynical about the practice, it seems to me that the outside solicitations of my students’ involvement are a means for organizations and/or corporations to garner spec work and public relations kudos under the guise of being good neighbors.
Separate conversations. Various takes. All worthwhile.
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