HuffPo's Love of Free Stuff Gets Them In Trouble Again
The Huffington Post is feeling the heat from the AIGA, the professional association for design, over the HuffPost Politics Icon Competition, a contest that is crowdsourcing the logo for its politics coverage.
Ric Grefe, the executive director of the AIGA writes in a comment on the site that “AIGA… 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” on the basis that it won’t necessarily elicit the best work and because it disrespects designers to ask for freebies.
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