Category Archives: 99 Designs

An Open Letter to 99designs

March 24, 2009 – 12:22 pm

Hey Crew At 99designs,
I’m a fan of your work.  Your site, sitepoint, is a great resource to designers around the world.
Over the last year, slowly, you have been drug into the spec work conversation.
I don’t think you want to be here.  I really don’t.  I don’t see you as a middle man trying to make [...]

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Spec Work Panel at SXSW

March 23, 2009 – 4:33 pm

I’ve been thinking of the SXSW panel on spec work named after my post “Spec Work is Evil”
The panel was fantastic, because, it was really a panel.  There were people on one side, people on the other.  Other panel organizers, this is how it is done.
The panel was organized by the folks at CrowdSpring, which, [...]

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Spec Work is a Ponzi Scheme

March 9, 2009 – 12:26 pm

Last month in San Francisco I asked Stowe Boyd if I should keep writing about this spec work thing, and his advice was fairly candid:
“If it matters to you, it matters to you, and you can’t hide that.”
I love design.  I was a fulltime freelancer for 3 years.  I have my college degree in Computer [...]

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