A while back, I made a post about crowdsourcing, an internet buzzword that identifies the productive path of online networking. Recently, I stumbled upon CrowdSpring, a site set up to align creatives with clients. It is providing a great entry for any designer or client that wants to get involved with a creative endeavor.
CrowdSpring works a lot like a competition. The only thing different is that revisions are allowed as well as client – designer dialogue. As a client, you post your project, say how much you are willing to pay, and then as the submissions start coming in, you can ask the designers to modify it in any way.
Designers can come onto the site and see which projects interest them, and then submit as many concepts as they would like. The downfall for the designer is that if you don’t win the contract, you could end up putting in a lot of time for not much return.
We have not used the resource yet, but if anybody has any experience with it we would love to hear how it went.
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