Huffington Post Takes Heat for Crowdsourcing Logo
HuffPo is holding a design contest for a new HuffPost Politics logo, with the winner receiving nothing at all, unless you count attribution. And that didn’t sit well with Ric Grefe, executive director of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He left a strongly worded comment on the site, which reads in part:
AIGA, the nation’s largest and oldest professional association for design, strongly discourages the practice of requesting that design work be produced and submitted
on a speculative basis in order to be considered for acceptance on a project.
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