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The Naked Truth About Design Contests, Crowdsourcing & Spec Sites. Evolve or Die Indeed. Send tips to @SpecWatch for RTs & investigation. specwatch.info Everywhere Joined June 2009-
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@turnislefthome Contest sites require large support teams to deal w/designer conflicts & plagiarism reports @roneo @designcrowd @dcscottn
@DesignCrowd And while those NDAs are unenforceable, they illustrate your position towards designers' intellectual property & their rights
@DesignCrowd Designers must agree to NDAs to enter some contests. That forbids usage of unpaid design work including in their own portfolios
@DesignCrowd Selling unused stock at other venue is not a factor. Besides, you demand a non-revok license to everything submitted.
@DesignCrowd Your participation payments of $15, $20 are ludicrous and not even minimum wage in many countries. It's exploitation.
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Logo design contest leaves #Portland Bureau of Transportation spinning its wheels. ORne.ws/1p2WFJA
With that in mind, we discard any "democratization of design" arguments they make. It is simply about their profit, built on unpaid labor.
Larger #specwork sites take approx 40% of total cost to contest holders. Winning designers earn a 60% prize. Non-winning designers: nothing
In this contest 99designs will take a min of $679 in commissions & fees -> MT @99designs Win $920! Ceiling Experts, Inc brand identity pack
.@DesignCrowd charges winning designers a 15% commission on any prize money won in their contests. Non-winners of course, paid nothing.
On this contest 99designs will take a min of $493 in commission & fees -> RT @99designs Score $706 US Property Trust 99d.me/g/eptqo
When #specwork sites run Web Design contests, they're not actually web design contests. They're 'Photoshop Images of Web Page' contests.
Hello Twitter. It's been a while. People need to follow & support @turnislefthome for his efforts on shitspecwork.tumblr.com
@turnislefthome Been out of the trenches for a while. Hard to keep up the energy. It's disheartening & tilting at windmills.
@turnislefthome Was inspired by your Tumblr.
Winning logo in design contest features vectorized iStock watermark. http://bit.ly/63y12D
Free vector download entered into logo contests on 99designs AND Crowdspring. Selected as winner on Crowdspring http://tinyurl.com/ybbc9bj
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