01-14-2013, 08:59 PM
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That makes no sense at all. How a business chooses to operate is up to them. If a designer wants to compete in the crowd sourced game, that's up to them. I never do spec work, and if someone asked me to I'd walk. But that's my choice.
There's plenty of people who've spent five minutes coming up with a logo design, then 30 seconds plopping in a name and submitting it. Then they submit it a 100 times, and eventually make $150. In the end they probably end up making $100/hr pretty easily.
I never implied his business had to work any particular way I merely made recommendations as you did. I never said designers could or could not do spec work, I never do spec work either.
Spec work is for architects and million dollar projects, or perhaps very large opportunities.... for other disciplines.
There may be "plenty" of dabblers playing the 5 minute logo game.. and there "may" be others spending hours on their logo designs. i haven't seen any real data on it.. Ultimately, I doubt the spec work scenario is fair, though I will not make up any assumptions about how plentiful the bounty is, and will not assign some arbitrary hourly rate to those involved to make my point.
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That makes no sense at all. How a business chooses to operate is up to them. If a designer wants to compete in the crowd sourced game, that's up to them. I never do spec work, and if someone asked me to I'd walk. But that's my choice.
There's plenty of people who've spent five minutes coming up with a logo design, then 30 seconds plopping in a name and submitting it. Then they submit it a 100 times, and eventually make $150. In the end they probably end up making $100/hr pretty easily.
I never implied his business had to work any particular way I merely made recommendations as you did. I never said designers could or could not do spec work, I never do spec work either.
Spec work is for architects and million dollar projects, or perhaps very large opportunities.... for other disciplines.
There may be "plenty" of dabblers playing the 5 minute logo game.. and there "may" be others spending hours on their logo designs. i haven't seen any real data on it.. Ultimately, I doubt the spec work scenario is fair, though I will not make up any assumptions about how plentiful the bounty is, and will not assign some arbitrary hourly rate to those involved to make my point.
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