Jun 23 2010
What do spec, design contest and crowdsourcing sites sell? Logo design? Uh-uh. Web design? Not that either. Graphic design of any type? Nope. Most design contest sites sell contest listings. That’s it. Contest listings. That little nugget can be found in most of the ‘Terms & Conditions’ of most design contest sites. When it comes to prizes, awards or whatever else you want to call them, designers are completely, and utterly, on their own. Regardless of what designers are promised about contests being ‘guaranteed’ and regardless of how many entries, revisions and edits are pitched, And it all involves credit cards. And something called a charge back. And while contest sites are practically guaranteed their ‘listing fees’, participating designers are at the total whim of contest holders. You thought you had a slim chance of winning before? You have no idea.