It seems there is a lot of debate lately about whether or not crowdsourcing is evil. New sites are popping up like crowdSPRING and 99designs which allow several designers to compete on the same project and only one gets rewarded a usually small fee.
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I hadn’t be as excited to get something in the mail in a long time as I was when Personal Development for Smart People by Steve Pavlina came. I have been reading Steve Pavlina’s blog for a few years now and I knew this book had to be pretty special.
Koldo and I have talked extensively about why things just don’t feel right with the world these last few years. What happened to people’s sense of community? And does it feel lately like each person is their own island? Some days that best thing that happens to me is a nice friendly smile. True, things have to do a lot with your own perspective, but doesn’t it feel like things have changed?
Mar
30
2008
Being yourself as a creative
Sometimes in life we mistake the purposes of the things we do in life and we confuse the means with the end. Naomi and I had an interesting conversation while we were walking in the mountains the other day. We were saying that we don’t think art and design are the ultimate purpose and reason why we are doing this. We think it’s just a path for deeper purposes in life. After all, our work affects what we are in more than the values that society uses to measure our success in terms of money and reputation.
Mar
17
2008
Design and Values
I was having an online discussion the other day with some designers about taking on jobs that we don’t feel comfortable with because they are against our values. Some of these things might include web sites with content about tobacco, firearms, adult content, etc.
