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Obama for America recently asked designers to submit poster designs to a contest, to support the American Jobs Act. Among the posters submitted, twelve will become finalists, with three posters emerging the victors. View the contest here. The winning posters will be printed and sold, with proceeds benefitting the 2012 Obama campaign. The winning designers…
iStockphoto announced yesterday that they would begin selling logos on their site, in addition to their popular, cheap stock photography. The logos will sell for 100-750 credits, and each logo can be sold only once. Designers will initially receive 50% royalty, with this policy to change after six months. Credits range from $0.95 to $1.50…
Spec Watch is a new site devoted to revealing the naked truth about design contests & crowdsourcing. Design contests and crowdsourcing have been marketed as the “future of graphic design”, a “new reality”, call themselves “disruptive” and their stated goal (as per Forbes) is, “to slash the cost of graphic design work and democratize a…
“CrowdSpring aims to slash the cost of graphic design work — and democratize a snooty business.” That is the tagline from Forbes, who has ran an article about crowdSPRING, a web site sponsoring design contests. Forbes fails to provide a journalistic counterpoint to its one-sided lovefest of a company who exploits both young/inexperienced designers AND…
