CrowdSpring
Jul 02
I just came across a little review of this site, and it sounds interesting.http://www.crowdspring.com/
It was best described by a blogger as a business model that “applies the Web 2.0 treatment to commercial graphic design.”
It works like this:
“As the buyer of art, you create a profile on the website about the kind of project you want and how much you’re willing to pay. Then artists, who also have profiles on the site, will submit their best cracks at your project (actual work, not proposals), and you can choose the one you like and “award” the designer the money you said you’d pay. Payment is held in escrow by crowdSPRING until the deal is done.”
I’m interested to know what everybody thinks of the concept…
Jul 03 at 08:25
Clever idea, but sounds scary to me, for both artist and buyer. As an artist, always working on spec would be a bummer. And as a buyer, knowing that my talent-pool was composed of artists desperate enough to work on spec… would be a bummer!