Comments on: A new visual identity with crowdSPRING http://www.afhill.com/blog/a-new-visual-identity-with-crowdspring/ Reflections on online strategy, social media marketing, web accessibility and interactive design. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:14:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Brett Borders http://www.afhill.com/blog/a-new-visual-identity-with-crowdspring/#comment-122228 Brett Borders Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:50:29 +0000 http://www.afhill.com/blog/?p=1642#comment-122228 It looks great! Nice job Andrea and CrowdSPRING! It looks great! Nice job Andrea and CrowdSPRING!

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]]> By: Ross Kimbarovsky http://www.afhill.com/blog/a-new-visual-identity-with-crowdspring/#comment-121981 Ross Kimbarovsky Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:57:15 +0000 http://www.afhill.com/blog/?p=1642#comment-121981 Hi Andrea, Thanks so much for giving the talented creatives working on crowdSPRING an opportunity to help you with the new visual identity for your blog. We're really proud of Jameson McMaster and his excellent work in your project. At this moment, we have well over 11,000 creatives from 130+ countries working on crowdSPRING. Clients from nearly 40 countries have posted projects. And this is only during our first 7 months in business (we started May 2008!). We understand that crowdSPRING isn't for everyone, and we don't shy away from discussing spec work. A designer who has their hands full with paid clients shouldn't need to work on spec. Those who are looking for more clients often have few options. We saw a huge void in the marketplace (for both clients and designers) and founded crowdSPRING to fill that void. We recently engaged in an excellent discussion about spec work and how we approach it. <a href="http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1253-the-nospec-campaign-vs-crowdspring"> You can read more about it here.</a> What you heard from Jameson reflects the views of the vast majority of creatives working on crowdSPRING. We wanted to build a marketplace and community where the playing field was level - where a janitor and student can compete with a 20 year experienced designer. And we have our share of 20 year experienced designers, including AIGA members. As you know, we don't charge creatives a dime (our 15% fee is paid by buyers) and offer many protections not available anywhere, including custom legal contracts protecting intellectual property for every single transaction on crowdSPRING. We're super pleased that you put your trust in us and our great community in 2008 and we hope that you'll consider coming back to crowdSPRING again in 2009 when you are looking for help with other creative needs. Best, Ross Kimbarovsky co-Founder http://www.crowdspring.com Hi Andrea,

Thanks so much for giving the talented creatives working on crowdSPRING an opportunity to help you with the new visual identity for your blog. We’re really proud of Jameson McMaster and his excellent work in your project.

At this moment, we have well over 11,000 creatives from 130+ countries working on crowdSPRING. Clients from nearly 40 countries have posted projects. And this is only during our first 7 months in business (we started May 2008!).

We understand that crowdSPRING isn’t for everyone, and we don’t shy away from discussing spec work. A designer who has their hands full with paid clients shouldn’t need to work on spec. Those who are looking for more clients often have few options. We saw a huge void in the marketplace (for both clients and designers) and founded crowdSPRING to fill that void. We recently engaged in an excellent discussion about spec work and how we approach it.
You can read more about it here.

What you heard from Jameson reflects the views of the vast majority of creatives working on crowdSPRING. We wanted to build a marketplace and community where the playing field was level – where a janitor and student can compete with a 20 year experienced designer. And we have our share of 20 year experienced designers, including AIGA members. As you know, we don’t charge creatives a dime (our 15% fee is paid by buyers) and offer many protections not available anywhere, including custom legal contracts protecting intellectual property for every single transaction on crowdSPRING.

We’re super pleased that you put your trust in us and our great community in 2008 and we hope that you’ll consider coming back to crowdSPRING again in 2009 when you are looking for help with other creative needs.

Best,

Ross Kimbarovsky
co-Founder
http://www.crowdspring.com

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