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The NO!SPEC campaign: Serves as a vehicle to unite those who support the notion that spec work devalues the potential of design and ultimately does a disservice to the client.

Our mission: To educate the public about speculative, or 'spec' work.

Our target: Those who use creative services, as well as creative professionals (designers, photographers, illustrators, typographers, translators, writers and those in marketing, branding, advertising, and broadcast media).

What you can do: Read NO!SPEC’s Protocols. Place a ‘NO!SPEC logo on your site. Sign the NO!SPEC petition. Distribute the ‘NO!SPEC’ posters.

Requirements: The only requirement for participation is putting the appropriate value on your profession.

Logo Design Love: SpecWatch on Design Contests

June 24, 2009 at 5:18 pm · Filed under Design Contests

Do you twitter?

If you don’t have a twitter account, then you are missing out on the latest spec happening in the design industry.

Logo Design Love: It’s interesting to see the recent appearance of Spec Watch, a venture that educates about the very real risks of design contest websites and “their so-called communities”.

Spec Watch has been cataloging unpaid and refunded projects, and those terminated due to copyright violation.

Right now Spec Watch is mainly targeting the design contests at Crowdspring and 99designs, but who knows how their campaign will evolve.

To see what all the fuss is about, follow Spec Watch (SpecWatch) on Twitter.

(Thanks David!)

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