No!spec · 18:06 23 Jul 2013
DA&D’s past President Mike Dempsey shared his thoughts on the recent speech given to young design graduates by D&AD chairman Dick Powell. Mike Dempsey said:
“This attitud… Read More
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No!spec · 08:35 05 Jun 2013
Steve Douglas wrote an in-depth piece about “the arrogance of crowdsourcing,” where he talks about the design contest for the Dallas Mavericks. He also reviews “unofficial… Read More
No!spec · 17:49 09 May 2013
Lisa Barrett of Birmingham-based Sixth Story published the studio’s experience of speculative design, where the “pitches” they ultimately lost ended up looking very similar… Read More
No!spec · 08:29 18 Apr 2013
“People are free to decide what they do with the efforts of designers of any stripe – that’s entirely ok. But when a publicly funded organisation (whose entire justificatio… Read More
No!spec · 04:15 09 Oct 2011
A tweet from Niki Bivona (@nikibivona) on Twitter says it all:
“RT @nospec http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/artworks-submission Obama is now crowdsourcing a poster, about job creation… Read More
No!spec · 13:32 05 Jun 2011
Here’s a petition found via Twitter that you might be interested in.
@LogoMotives Petition: Stop the US Department of @Interior from Crowdsourcing a Logo | @nospec #nospec | http://bi… Read More
Salespodder: Because… · 11:14 04 Apr 2018
What is this, a trial shift at Nandos?
I can hear that said in meeting rooms across England throughout this vernal lengthening of days.
There’s a long and chequered history surrounding… Read More
Salespodder: Because… · 10:10 28 Feb 2021
Seth Godin, The Practice; Shipping Creative Work, 2020
In a style used previously, 219 (+3) short blog-style postings in eight sections by the marketeer tell a tale of how to change the worl… Read More