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Quote of the Week:

The best analogy I've read about spec work and graphic design...

...comes this past week from AIGA Executive Director Richard Grefe, who wrote a letter to the National Endowment for the Arts, admonishing them for requesting designers to create a logo on spec for a new program, "Art Works". Go read the whole article, as it's filled with bon mots like this:

It would seem to me that the analogue in theater production would be for producers to invite dress rehearsals of a variety of productions before an investment or commitment was made on any one production.

Labels: spec work

posted at 10:14 PM Leave your comments here: 0 comments

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7.24.2009

Want more proof that logo "contests" are spec work? And that spec doesn't pay?

...then I would suggest you follow Spec Watch, on Twitter. They seem to be aggregating some of the nasty stories about so-called contests in the design world.

I'd also recommend NoSpec. And my posts about bartow's survey of $99 logo sites and the AIGA's position on spec work.

Labels: advice, graphic design, spec work

posted at 10:52 AM Leave your comments here: 0 comments

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