Category: Spec Conversation

  • Pig Work on NO!SPEC

    From Pig Work: The fact is if big fat wallets want to get five of us monkeys dancing on the chance one will get some money then it’s not a healthy situation for anyone. It devalues the designers and means when you do speculative work and don’t pull the contract you not only don’t get […]

  • The Zehnkatzen Times on NO!SPEC

    Samual John Klein shouts out with The Zehnkatzen Times: [design] Professional Designers Cry NO!SPEC. One of the most egregious ideas of recent time is the “logo design competition”. While there may indeed be times and places for such a thing, a trend has been emerging toward larger operations who should know better opening a logo […]

  • Jeff Andrews on NO!SPEC

    Jeff Andrews jumps in two fisted with Adventures in Blogging and blog.myspace.com. Good for you in using myspace Jeff, as it’s the young population we need to reach. I’d encourage everyone to visit the site and read the articles there, download the posters provided by my buddy Von Glitschka. Get involved!

  • Athyrius on NO!SPEC

    Athyrius talks about Getting Paid. I remember very clearly the day a fellow professional looked me in the eye and told me, “I don’t open a program without getting paid.” That day I went home, heated my Ramen and thought about it for a while before deciding he was absolutely right.

  • Mister Alexander on NO!SPEC

    Mister Alexander writing about ‘The dangers of Spec work’ for the Communication Design Studies at Virginia Western Community College. … in the end, my inexperience and eagerness caused the loss of my own creative control and product, and my only payment was the 150 or so hot dogs that my sympathetic friend slid across the […]

  • Susan Kirkland on NO!SPEC

    Susan Kirkland: SPECulative at Graphic Design Forum Blogs If you are invited by a big client to do work on spec, react with enthusiasm for the project, then politely suggest current projects prevent you from participating in that way. Suggest an alternative method of vying for the job; a portfolio showing of similar jobs you […]

  • Adland on NO!SPEC

    Adland ad-rag.com NO!SPEC crusade on a roll Design organisations are now getting involved – RGD (Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario), GDC (Society of Graphic Designers of Canada), AIGA (the professional association for design), and Icograda (International Council of Graphic Design Associations).

  • mediabistro.com: UnBeige on NO!SPEC

    mediabistro.com: UnBeige: And Then They Never Talked About Spec Work Again… We’re back to eating up every last bit of words with this whole ongoing spec thing. This writer has seen enough to understand that he was wrong in the spec department. He was thinking more along the lines of creating to help your portfolio, […]

  • Creativebits on NO!SPEC

    creativebits: This concerns you guys so check it out! The mission of NO!SPEC is to educate both clients and Visual Communication designers (also known as ‘graphic’ designers) about the nature of speculative, or “spec” work. It also serves as a vehicle to unite designers who support the notion that spec work devalues the potential of […]

  • Web Design Times and NO!SPEC

    Stop by Web Design Times and join in on the Say NO! to Spec discussion (yes, cat had a go). In an effort to educate Visual Communication Designers and those who use their services, on the damaging effects caused by spec work and spec-based design contests, a group of designers from all over the globe […]