What could be more fitting, than to end the NO!SPEC Campaign where it began, with www.ideasonideas.com.
A bit of background: On February 24th followed a link on the GDC/BG Blog to The Value of Canadian Design at ideasonideas, where they were discussing a [spec] web design competition being held by the Canadian Heritage and Design Exchange. I then posted a rant at about.com, where Betta took it further with, “we could do an anti-spec work week”.
From Eric:Some people likely don’t understand why there’s so much hubbub around spec work. I’m sure that a few even feel that we just need to chill-out. Fine enough, but I’m convinced that most would change their minds upon considering this practice, and what spec implies.
Take your profession. Think about how hard you have worked to learn what you currently know. Now, pretend that every month or two, you have to defend what you do to your boss, and then she will pick and choose who gets paid for their work. Ultimately, that’s what spec is. When a potential client asks for work on spec, they basically negate the entire value of a profession.
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