Thanks for the graceful response but with all due respect you definitely dont "get what theyre talking about". Because if you did, you would do the right thing and pick a designer you like whos willing to do the work and not waste a bunch of peoples time and make multiple losers to your contest.
I understand your bias, given youre the contest holder but spec work is spec work, no matter if its at an indie scale or a large corporation.
In regards to the "dramatic and silly statement", I think you misunderstood. How often do you hold a contest to pick a doctor? Or a lawyer? The thought of holding a contest to pick a doctor or a lawyer should be equally as ridiculous as picking a designer but sadly its not. The only reason spec work is so common is because everyone with a computer and Photoshop is a designer nowadays, and the margin is so absurdly low that these contests happen only because theres more designers witth spare time than those who dont. So i hope you understand now that crowdsourcing is nothing like what you said.
Theres certainly a flair of arrogance that goes with these contests. The notion that designers should compete over your work is no different to me than tv shows like "the bachelor". Instead of a contest why not just be like hey guys, looking for some artwork, anyone down? Thats much more in touch with the indie scale youre talking about. If you hadnt presented this as a contest I probably wouldve been willing to participate. Your project looks like fun and I'd be personally interested.
You started your contest and theres people interested (unfortunately) so I wouldnt expect you to close it or anything, I just hope some information reached you and maybe you could go about design work differently in the future.
I did misunderstand that statement. I read it as "graphic designers are the only creative artists abused by spec work".
Also should have said: I understand their argument but am not sure I agree.
I'm continuing to read thru the material linked from antispec. I'll definitely be redefining/clarifying the contest rules to match those listed here (Item Two): https://www.graphicartistsguild.org/res … petitions/
EDIT: What would be the current market value for a single image redesign of a logo (essentially what this is)?
Last edited by egr (Nov 30, 2011 6:33 pm)
