{"id":2421,"date":"2010-08-20T14:57:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T00:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2010-08-20T14:58:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T00:58:13","slug":"the-plain-truth-about-logo-design-contests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/the-plain-truth-about-logo-design-contests\/","title":{"rendered":"The plain truth about logo design contests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelogofactory.com\/logo_blog\/index.php\/the-plain-truth-about-logo-design-contests\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2423\" title=\"another boat example\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/another-boat-example.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/another-boat-example.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/another-boat-example-300x291.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of buzz in recent months about &#8220;crowd-sourcing&#8221; design. Some companies are making big bucks on providing a service that allows what they call &#8220;communities&#8221; to submit logos in the hopes of getting a cash reward. This isn&#8217;t new of course, it&#8217;s basically the same thing as doing a design contest, or what we&#8217;d call speculative work. I may have discussed this issue here once or twice.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelogofactory.com\/logo_blog\/index.php\/the-plain-truth-about-logo-design-contests\/\" target=\"_blank\">great article<\/a> written up by a design group that had their logo plagiarized dozens of times by people who submitted derivative artwork in the hopes of winning a design contest.<\/p>\n<p>To new, upcoming designers&#8230;I understand the thrill of possibly getting some recognition by submitting your work on these things. But if you&#8217;re serious about getting into this profession, you have to think about your own role in protecting the very career you&#8217;re heading towards. Your raw talent, your training, your software and hardware, and the future well-being of your clients, are all worth more than what little you get awarded from these things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of buzz in recent months about &#8220;crowd-sourcing&#8221; design. Some companies are making big bucks on providing a service that allows what they call &#8220;communities&#8221; to submit logos in the hopes of getting a cash reward. This isn&#8217;t new of course, it&#8217;s basically the same thing as doing a design contest, or what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,52,8,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-news","category-logos","category-business","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2424,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions\/2424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}