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For those using chemicals, do you all wait the prescribed 4 hours to kill crypto and giardia? If so, how do you manage your water in between stops? It seems that a 14 oz pump filter would eliminate the need to carry extra water weight due to the immediate drink time at water sources.
You only have to wait 20 minutes useing Aquamira liquid. Plus 5 minutes when you first add the two chemicals together. Are you talking about the tablets?
aqua mira liquid as well as the various chlorine dioxide tablets out there (which are around 3x the concentration of the aqua mira drops) do require 4 hours in the worst case: cold cloudy water with cysts. If you cysts aren't an issue the drops are effective in 15 minutes for everything else. Cysts are 30 minutes in moderate temp reasonable clean water.My solutions is that my water supplies are typically not cloudy so I have 30 minutes to wait which doesn't effect how much water I am carrying except in dessert conditions when I plan to camel up (in which case I typically borrow a friends UV purfier). If I going someplace with really icky water I typically bring a filter to improve the taste and avoid 4 hour wait time.--Mark
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If you use a backflushable gravity filter such as the Sawyer, you'll have to wait about 5 minutes per liter. With the dirty water reserviour, it will weigh about 7 oz. Backflushable means no replacement needed (also no ongoing purchase of Aquamira). Sawyer guarantees it's filters for life. See BPL reviews for more info.
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Tablets and liquids (eg Aquamira) both use the same ingredient: chlorine dioxide. HOWEVER, tablets are more potent than liquid.For the tablets, as above, 30-minute treatment time is the minimum needed for treating protozoa -- but the colder the water, the longer the treatment time -- up to 4 hours.As for the less potent liquids -- note that the directions on the bottle mentions only treatment for bacteria - NOT protozoa.
I'm glad I came across this thread. I was just thinking about this same thing yesterday. I currently have two water filters at my disposal. The Katadyn Mini for solo trips (8oz) and the Katadyn Hiker Pro for group outings. It would be great to drop this weight, and I'm willing to use chemicals... but waiting 4 hours is out of the question. I'm kinda anal about my water and if they say "up to 4 hours", you better believe I would wait the 4 hours to make sure it's safe.An alternative would be nice. Any lighter options? Anyone tried the CleanStream Gravity Filter by Platypus? I'm sure it could be altered to weigh much less. Ideas?
Opinion, but I think the difference between what the liquid package claims to treat, and what the tablets claim to treat is a reflection of the simplicity of tablets, and what a lawyer is comfortable with. Liquid requires the ability to read directions to mix two liquids, judge a color change, and transfer the mixture to a bottle. Tablets require the ability to open a foil package and drop a pill into a jug.
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Community members were concerned that the museum - a research treasure as well as a public asset - would be closed and stored for years while campus renovations are under way. Friends of the museum also were concerned about appropriate, climate-controlled, long-term storage for the thousands of artifacts that are part of the museum's collection.
However, university administrators worked with the museum's advisory committee to come up with a solution that will allow the museum to continue until its permanent home is ready.
Tom Sasek, associate professor of biology and director of the ULM Museum of Natural History, said a public display area using 3,400 square feet of space on the first floor of Hanna Hall will be created. Research collections will be moved to the first floor of Brown Stadium, where they will be housed in a temperature-controlled environment and will continue to be available to scientists.
The Museum of Natural History, housed now on the third floor of Sandel Hall, is home to thousands of artifacts and fossils, including 6 million fish specimens in 100,000 jars.
The museum, which is on the state's Heroes and Heritage Trail, has more than 6,000 square feet of space to display more than 60 years of work in the combined fields of zoology, botany and geosciences. The museum typically draws thousands of visitors each year and is operated primarily with volunteers on a miniscule budget.
Sandel Hall was always a temporary home for the museum, said ULM Executive Vice President Stephen Richters, and the plan was to move the museum to the first two floors of Hanna Hall and double its size.
Renovations are scheduled at Sandel in early 2013. Walker Hall was earmarked as a temporary location for the museum, but a fire put Walker out of commission. Museum officials and concerned community members then raised the question of what would happen to the museum and its collections.
While the university was looking for a solution, Sasek said the community showed strong support for seeing the museum stay open, even if it meant moving it off campus.
The solution is the best possible, considering the significant obstacles of space and timing. The museum will stay open and its valuable collections will be protected.
The editorials in this column represent the opinions of The News-Star's editorial board, composed of President and Publisher David B. Petty, Executive Editor Kathy Spurlock and community representatives Lyle Miller, Tom Nicholson and Kelly Shambro.


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I was commissioned to build a Secondary Breast Cancer campaign website for Breast Cancer Care. Images created in Photoshop were provided, which had been created by a graphic design company. My job was to take these pictures and use them to build a functioning website using WordPress, with a form to enable visitors to leave messages of support, and prominent links with social networking websites.
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The carousel (or slideshow) at the top of the home page automatically switches between the portraits and stories of four women who've experienced secondary breast cancer. This technique enables a website to pack content into a small but prominent area of the screen, and make good use of striking images.
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President-elect Barack Obama walks onto the stage during the " We Are One: Opening Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial" in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Brisk and chilly but dry weather will greet the crowds that descend upon Washington, D.C., Tuesday for the 56th Presidential Inauguration. The temperatures on Inauguration Day will remain cool, but nowhere near the bitterly cold readings that gripped much of the East last week.
As an estimated 1 to 2 million people converge in the nation`s capital, a weak ridge of high pressure will build overhead, bringing partly cloudy skies and dry conditions.
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Chronicle of Oldrich S., an East Silver Caravan submission for this festival, was recognized for "brave and unexpected story about reflection of the world history in life of an ordinary person".
Julia Panasenko's Outro, former Silver Eye nominee in 2011, received the recognition for "human and fearless approach to the subject of facing death".
The winner of the short category became Polish film We Will Be Happy One Day by Pawel Wysoczanski.
Among the winners in other categories is also Argentinian Lesson by Wojciech Staron, who won the Main Prize in the Docu/Life category. Ramin by Audrius Stonys was awarded by the Student Jury with the Special Mention as well for "the struggle with loneliness" together with Robert Rubins' How Are You Doing, Rudolf Ming?
List of awarded titles at Docudays 2012:
Main Prize: Argentinian Lesson by Wojciech Staron
Special Mention "For optimism": Autumn Gold by Jan Tenhaven
Special Mention "For incredible characters": Gangster Project by Teboho Edkins
Main Prize: Body and Soul by Matthieu Bron
Special Mention "For very artistic, humorous and moving story of relationship between characters that belong to different generations": Life in Stills by Tamar Tal
Special Mention "For artistic power and civil courage in the study of the protest movement in modern Russia": Tomorrow by Andrey Gryazev
Main Prize: We Will Be Happy One Day by Pawel Wysoczanski
Special Mention "For human and fearless approach to the subject of facing death": Outro by Yulia Panasenko
Special Mention "For brave and unexpected story about reflection of the world history in life of an ordinary person": Chronicle of Oldrich S. by Rudolf Smid
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Main Prize: Lesha by Elena Demidova
Special Mention "For the struggle with loneliness": Ramin by Audrius Stonys
Special Mention "For the recipe for young filmmakers": How Are You Doing, Rudolf Ming? by Roberts Rubins
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Sounds clean to me as well. Must have been a .45.
This is a discussion on UGLY:Bicyclist-shot-after-colliding-with-pickup-truck within the In the News: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Bicyclist shot after colliding with pickup truck in Taylor; Later dies during surgery | News - Home Need to get a lot more details, but ...
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Need to get a lot more details, but it sounds like a clean shoot (assuming the guy had CPL). Sounds like he did.
Sounds clean to me as well. Must have been a .45.
What a stupid way to die.
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Most bicycle riders don't follow the law of the road.
As a very conscientious cyclist who rides with many other very conscientious cyclists I have to disagree. Cyclists generally, in my experience, break driving laws about the same as do regular drivers. Driving last night after work I lost count at how many people failed to stop completely at stop signs and who drove WELL above the legal speed limit.
In Colorado, cyclists are EVERYWHERE. I really can't stand it, myself. So many of them don't stay in the bike lanes or they ride two or three abreast, making it so that cars have to swerve into the other lane to avoid them. Not all cyclists are so annoying, but I've seen my fair share of those who believe that they own the road. They are the first to yell at someone in a car and say "share the road!", while they ride a couple feet into the road, slowing down traffic.
IRTT: I hope the driver of the truck was physically smaller/weaker than the cyclist or that they thought they were in serious danger of life and limb, because I don't think the guy wailing on him is enough to use lethal force unless it was a brutal onslaught by a physically-superior person doing some real damage.
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From a witness:I would like more details on this; was there sufficient justification for the use of lethal force. Sounds like there may be some question.he just started pounding on this guy. He hit him ... maybe seven times or so, and then the driver shot him (snip) He is being held pending any charges
they are holding the shooter just to be sure he be let go because he was not the aggressor and didn't even get out to the truck... so it's clean, passed the smell test
For the novice reading this thread, driving away is a far better option if possible.
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From a witness:
he just started pounding on this guy. He hit him ... maybe seven times or so, and then the driver shot him (snip) He is being held pending any chargesHow much beating would he have to absorb before being sufficiently justified in using lethal force? I think I would have concluded this thing long before our Cyclist made it to punch #7.I would likemore details on this; was there sufficient justification for the use of lethal force. Sounds like there may be some question.
WHEC742 hit this one center-mass......
If at all possiable, drive away a safe distance and call police then. If not....well, one in the chest will definatly squash the attackers sense of stupid.
"Just getting a concealed carry permit means you haven't commited a crime yet. CCP holders commit crimes." Daniel Vice, senior attorney for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, quoted on Fox & Friends, 8 Jul, 2008
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Driving away makes one guilty of leaving the scene of an accident. Reaching inside a vehicle to put hands on someone is a particularly bad plan in Castle Doctrine states.
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Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul.
Our allegiance must be purely to the United States.
We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance."
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Once again an example of the pitfalls of using your own weapon in self-defense. Our law in SC says deadly force can be used if a reasonable person would've felt threatened to the point that their life was in danger. So the problem is, the cops don't have a video of what went down, only the shooters word, so no matter how "guiltless" he may be, his lawyer can probably expect a nice payday and worst case, we got a Zimmerman deal. I certainly don't see that in this case, just saying. That's the risk you take if you ever pull the trigger on an attacker. For me, I won't be shooting unless my life is actually in danger so I don't end up buying my mouthpiece a new vacation home. I'll use the gun as a deterrent to be sure. I have no idea how this guy got "punched repeatedly" before drawing his weapon. It actually sounds a little fishy you ask me. Hope he has strong witnesses.


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National recovery plan for the Lord Howe Woodhen (Gallirallus sylvestris)
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1. Current Conservation Status
The Lord Howe Woodhen (Gallirallus sylvestris, Sclater 1869) is listed on Schedule 1 (Part 1) of the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 (TSC Act) as an Endangered Species. It is listed as Vulnerable on Schedule 1 (Part 2) of the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). The species is classified as Endangered by the IUCN (Baillie and Groombridge 1996).
The Lord Howe Woodhen is endemic to Lord Howe Island, a part of NSW located about 700 km north-east of Sydney in the south-west Pacific Ocean. Originally described as 'common' in the early 1800s, the number of Woodhen had declined to 37 by the late 1970s, restricted to the high plateau of Mount Gower in the southern mountains of the island (Miller and Kingston 1980). This decline heightened concern for the species' future and prompted the implementation of a rehabilitation program. This program included the elimination of feral Pigs (Sus scrofa) from Lord Howe Island and a very productive captive breeding and release program for the Woodhen. As a result of this program, one of the most successful ever implemented for any bird species, the wild population increased between 1980 and 1985 by over 100 to 140 individuals in at least three geographically discrete populations. In April 2002 monitoring survey, 127 individuals were counted, not including the Little Slope site which was not surveyed due to weather conditions (see Section 3.2).


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After yesterday's performance by Anibal Sanchez coming 1 inning away from tossing a no hitter against the Colorado Rockies, I came to notice that all of the Marlins no hitters have come against NL West teams. Marlins have no hit 4 of the 5 NL West teams. Only the Dodgers have yet to get no hit by a Marlins pitcher.
Al Leiter threw the first Marlins no hitter on May 11, 1996 against the Colorado Rockies.
The second no hitter was by Kevin Brown on June 10, 1997 against the San Francisco Giants.
Third was by A.J. Burnett on May 12, 2001 against the San Diego Padres.
The fourth by Anibal Sanchez against the Arizona Diamondbacks on September 6, 2006.
The Marlins also have 13 1-hitters. Almost half of them, 5 of 13, came against NL West Teams.
Brad Penny and Anibal Sanchez are tied for the most 1-hitters in franchise history (2 each), but Anibal beats out Penny with his one no-hit.
Marlins should consider signing Anibal Sanchez to an extension if he continues to improve and stays healthy. He is the Marlins second best and most consistent starter after Josh Johnson.


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Is crowdsourcing the future of design?
First named in a 2006 Wired article simply put crowdsourcing is the sourcing of a task usually done by an individual to a community of people through an open competition. Usually only one person gets paid for their chosen design submission and the rest essentially have done the work for free. Due to the speculative ('spec') nature of the work the design profession is having a highly visceral reaction to crowdsourcing. As an experiment I decided to look at it in depth by both setting my own brief and responding to someone else's brief.
You post a brief for a design project with a fee on one of the crowdsourcing sites listed in the appendix. Types of projects include the design of logos, websites, brochures, posters, T-shirts etc. Various designers around the world see the brief, evaluate the effort it would take to respond versus the fee offered (frequently a few hundred dollars) and decide to either decline or start working. By way of an example one logo project for $650 on designcrowd.com received 256 submissions.
Crowdsourcing is a two way street. A small business owner or small charity could probably never afford a design house or ad agency. Designers responding to the brief could be design students, unemployed or live in a part of the world where a few hundred dollars could be a week or a month's salary. The internet being the great leveler, people from the first group (those posting design briefs) have their needs met by people from the second group (those submitting designs).
If you Google "Crowdsourcing design" or click this link (http://www.no-spec.com/articles/) you will turn up many entries from the design profession that have a negative view of the process. The emphasis in these discussions is the devaluing of design by spec work/working for free. Various analogies are used along the lines of eating in 5 restaurants but only paying for the meal you like the most.
By contrast in the current marketplace publishers and agencies are constantly asked to submit RFPs (Request For Proposals) for large corporate clients. On average 14 companies will put their responses in for every RFP. Only one or two will get the business. The money involved can be anywhere from $100k to a few million dollars so everyone focuses on winning and not on the loss of time it takes to answer every RFP.
Yet when the same concept is applied to the lower end of the market the design community is up in arms with a very visceral reaction which seems to be rooted in the undermining of the value of one's own career, education and/or self worth. It's understandable and it must be how doctors feel when patients say "it must be X, I know this because I read about it online". Yet at the same time we as designers are happy to use work from other creatives for free such as iStockphoto.com or dafont.com.
Often these emotional reactions to crowdsourcing obscure three factors that form the real substance of the process. Firstly small business owners like the guys above (from a diner near where I live) need logos, a micro site and other promotional material. What they can actually afford is far smaller than what a design agency would charge. As it is agencies work on long term relationships and would never touch these kinds of micro-projects. Thanks to crowdsourcing the small business owners will get something better than a logo created by themselves in Word.
Secondly the designers responding to crowdsourced briefs need the money otherwise they wouldn't bother: the higher the fee the better the responses as more people take the time-vs-payoff gamble. While crowdsourcing is unlikely to pay the bills if a designer is out of work it is also a great way to keep designing.
Thirdly these competitions best suit logos or similar small design projects as they are more finite. Long term projects that make up the bulk of agency work and may not work out so well for crowdsourcing e.g. maintaining a website can be more difficult than building one in the first place. In fact Emily Howman from DesignCrowd had this to say about longer term projects: "The percentage has dropped dramatically since we started only running contests for web design and not web coding. Web design/development projects tend to be the longest running and the most involved. The building of a website can take many months."
I thought that the best way to objectively look at crowdsourcing was to reply to somebody else's brief. The project I chose was to create a logo for Peer Analytics, a company that sifts through cell phone data to find the right time to upgrade or send offers to cell phone users rather than have them go to another network provider. The full brief can be found by clicking here. I chose this project as it intellectually challenged me more than many of the other briefs available at the time which were mostly for hotels, cafés or pubs. Their brief also asked for something modern and up market.
I noticed the last line of the brief asked for "Nice to Have: – Clever user of Negative Space. But not critical." so I figured they know a bit about design and I had a chance to do something different. Since the bounty on this project was $900 I thought that there would be a lot of submissions, many portraying cell phones, people talking on phones and key pads. If I was going to spend the time I wanted to submit something different and clever to even have a chance of being picked.
I spent 45 minutes with pen in hand toying with the idea of hidden meanings in the data and without realizing it was influenced by the TV show Fringe (which I was watching at the time). I hit upon the idea of using numbers to make up the letters in the logo. Tossing it around for another 45 minutes I hit upon using '7999' reflected to make the name 'Peer'. A further hour in illustrator produced the final polished logo below. I did two more logos, neither of which were chosen, bringing the total time spent on this project to about 5 hours.
The first design was eliminated soon after with the following feedback:
"Thanks for your submission but this is not what I'm after. Please try again. Clever use of 733t speak! But our audience has too much to think about in a glance and most won't understand." I had to look up '733t' and found this on Urban dictionary: "Common form of writing used by online gamers in which letters are replaced with numbers – such as '3' for 'e', and '4' for 'a'. Pronounced 'leet', the name is short for 'elite' – a highly sought-after status in the gaming world." I had no idea.
The second logo (P33R) wasn't eliminated for a week so must have been closer to what they were looking for. In theory I got nothing for my efforts but I liked what I did so I might just put it in my portfolio. Peers Analytics must have a hard time deciding from the submissions as the deadline was extended. When the competition was closed there were 307 submissions. I didn't get to see the logo that was finally chosen but here is their website, which might up on their site soon: www.peeranalytics.com.au
I chose the Australia based site DesignCrowd.com as I found their site was well laid out and nicely designed so as a designer my hopes were high. As a private individual I only had a budget of $350 ($300 prize, $50 to Design Crowd) and somewhere in the world there were people who would be willing to gamble the time needed to respond to a brief for that amount. I just needed to find them. I thought I would really put things to the test and have the competition's focus on my own logo. What if the crowdsourced designers could do a much better job than I did? Here's how DesignCrowd break down their packages and below that I've added my logo as it currently is:
And here's my brief to redesign the logo with the Look and Feel slider below (full details can be found by clicking here):
I am a designer writing about crowdsourcing for my blog (https://designcareer.wordpress.com/) and I'm putting my money where my mouth is in order to write about the whole process.
I'm looking for a logo that best sums up me as an art director. For me the most unique aspect of art direction is the ability to problem solve. I do so either through coming up with clever ideas and/or unique styles that match the solution. My portfolio can be found here: http://byrnecommunications.com/
Here's a SWF I did a few year's ago which shows the thinking behind the current logo: http://cbsiideagroup.com/blog_header/1321910668.html
You don't have to use anything at all from this SWF but it may provide insight into how I think.
I like blue in various shades but I think this is preventing me seeing other better color palettes and so I am open to suggestions.
I guaranteed that there would be a payment on the project even if I was unhappy with the responses which meant waiving the right to a refund. I felt it was the ethical thing to do when someone is responding to my brief for free. Next I clicked the button that would send a link for this project to the top 20 recommended designers who frequently respond to DesignCrowd. I saw that they were located in the UK, Philippines, Australia, France, Brazil, Romania, Bulgaria, India, UAE, Venezuela, Peru and one in the USA. Mentioning that I was going to write about the whole process on my blog may have helped getting some of these designers to respond. A higher fee would have probably helped get them all to respond.
2 hours and 15 minutes later the first response came in. Another response followed 30 minutes later. In 72 hours I had 21 logos from 8 designers, however I felt the majority of submissions were repurposed from previous logo competitions and had little to do with me. In the end there were 35 logo submissions from 13 designers. Here's a selection:
Henno is an art director living in South Africa who was new to DesignCrowd. His design resonated with me straight away. It was clear he had read the brief and understood what I was looking for. Here's his creative rationale: "The logo I designed for you gives you a sense of order in chaos but comes together at the end, Much like art direction with 2 sides and you having to accommodate both and come to a mutual agreement, I used 2 strong colors not one more intimidating than the other to balance the message behind the logo."
I would never have chosen black and red as colors for me but it looks sexy. I asked him to do a version in blue for better continuity with my existing logo. Henno gave me four color options and two entirely new designs. Here are some of his options:
This was the logo I chose as the new ByrneCommunication.com logo (watch out for a future rebranding of my website, blog, résumé, business cards etc.):
And for his $300 here's what it is worth in South Africa where he lives: "Well lets see for $300/R2500 you could go to dinner with your girlfriend, nothing expensive that would be R1000 and petrol would be R500. To go to a fun park with rides, roller coasters and that would be another R1000 but no food 2 drinks and parking that is it,"
The internet is already crowdsourcing on a vast scale: somebody with a need can find someone able to fulfill that need no matter where they are in the world. The only difference is doing free/spec work. As for design projects, the whole process works best if the person posting the brief lives in a first world economy and the designer is in a country where the competitions prize is comparatively a lot of money. It's simple economics.
Looking at the types of people/organizations posting these briefs I can say the design industry is not under threat from crowdsourcing. Most briefers included hotels, cafés, construction contractors, a sorority, a mom, a cabinetmaker, a beauty salon, a watch shop, a summer school etc. These are not the types of organizations that would be taking work away from the average agency or design firm. These are the types of small jobs that designers usually get asked to do for friends or friends-of-friends. The project usually ends badly and either they don't pay anything or pay very little but the expectations are are extremely high. Now I can send these friends or friends-of-friends to crowdsourcing sites and point out that they will get many more designs than I could ever provide.
The crowdsourcing process works best for projects with limited needs like logos. DesignCrowd clearly recognized this and since I first published this post they launched their own logo only site: BrandCrowd. However I wouldn't want to respond to a crowdsourced brief to create a brochure or website which can be a long and drawn out process even in a agency. As for the future I can foresee clients thinking crowdsourcing is a great idea. The proof will be getting a large, ongoing and continually changing project from start to finish through crowdsourcing. This is the area where having a dynamic and ongoing relationship with a designer or agency is critical to the whole process, something that crowdsourcing cannot provide.
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Dec 13 2011
Really well done post Rick. I think the bigger issue with the designers I know comes down to who owns and what happens to spec work that is not chosen. Many designers feel that their creative ideas will be taken and executed by a less expensive or in house resource.
I agree that crowdsourcing is not a major threat to designers.
Again, great post!
Dec 13 2011
Interesting article Rick. I love that you both responded to and created a brief – what a great idea. As an agency owner, we were initially a little concerned that crowdsourcing would eventually run us out of business. So, pretty early on, we crowdsourced a logo that we were working on for a client. We ran our own test, where our internal team was essentially competing with the crowd. I'm happy to say that our internal team triumphed by a considerable margin. The crowdsourced logos were at best extremely derivative and at worst unusable. Nevertheless, I can see a use for companies or organizations that either don't have the budget for an agency, or their business doesn't rely on a strong visual identity (your local diner owners for example). The iStockphoto example you cite is also an interesting case in point. We are happy to use these very cheap resources as the building blocks for some of our projects. But for a leading brand, intent on creating and owning a strong visual language, there will always be the need for bespoke image and graphic treatments.
Dec 14 2011
Awesome read, a few additional thoughts.
I agree that crowdsourcing is not a threat to agencies — and probably not even freelancers — for several reasons:
First, with a limited number of exceptions (like the logos you experimented with), clients hire agencies for more than pure design chops. They are looking for responsiveness, reliability, and (ideally) partnership. I don't see how you can get any of these from crowdsourcing. Even with 2+ decades of doom-saying to the contrary, business is still about relationships.
Second, and you touched on this with your website example, when you look at all of the myriad challenges agencies are asked to solve, very few of them are actually pure design challenges or have simple solutions. (I use simple not to describe the design itself, but rather the amount of resources that need to be amassed to solve it.) Clients need designers, but they need writers, coders, strategists, and yes, even account people. Freelance designers would do well to align themselves with other disciplines to avoid becoming the commodity that sites like DesignCrowd sell.
As to your analogy on stock photos & type, I'm not sure it's apples-to-apples. Stock photos and type aren't usually commissioned by someone but are posted by the creator to encourage as many people to use them as possible — for a small fee (iStockphoto and dafont are not free for professional use as far as I know). It is a volume game, where my ability to use an image does not preclude 10 other companies from using the same one (we often see this in stock photos, lol). You must admit that the number of companies who can use a Byrne Communications or Peer Analytics logo is much more limited.
All of which is my long-winded way of advising designers not to sell their designs, but to sell themselves.
Jan 3 2012
What a well constructed test, and argument. You have successfully convinced me—in particular with this statement:
"By contrast in the current marketplace publishers and agencies are constantly asked to submit RFPs (Request For Proposals) for large corporate clients. On average 14 companies will put their responses in for every RFP. Only one or two will get the business. The money involved can be anywhere from $100k to a few million dollars so everyone focuses on winning and not on the loss of time it takes to answer every RFP."
I have worked on more than my fair share of RFP's at more than one agency. It's a do or die mentality for winning VERY large clients… UNFORTUNATELY, I might add, because of the extreme cost. The last couple RFP's, in particular, I've spent cumulative months of my intellectual and emotional energy to put the best work forward with a team of people. Treating it as equal, if not more, to a paying client. Yes I've won a few (I still have a job) but the last couple were lost at the #2 position, after multiple cut-off rounds. This hurts on so many levels, especially financially for an agency. At the day-to-day level, paying work means longer hours, shifting work to other Art Directors, or eating the additional cost of freelance. These #2 losses were won by incumbent agencies with a working relationship on a different aspect of the client's business. This speaks not to the quality of work, but to the relationships and partnerships that grow between client and agency. It's our job to know, understand and then sell our client's product/service in ways our client never imagined. We are partners in connecting the unseen paths between the consumer and our client. Successful designers live and breath this… no matter what size the client. Unless a client is unhappy with an agency, and truly looking to replace them, it's often very hard to compete with the business relationship that grows between client and agency in a RFP. Often times these RFP's are "refresh" territory, and new relationship/cost realization strikes the client at the last second; leaving the incumbent in securely in place.
The point… As a designer, position yourself as a business partner with your client.
The result of this… in regards to crowdsourcing design-only executions—Rick sums it up with these three statements:
"As it is agencies work on long term relationships and would never touch these kinds of micro-projects."
"Long term projects that make up the bulk of agency work and may not work out so well for crowdsourcing."
"Most briefers included hotels, cafés, construction contractors, a sorority, a mom, a cabinetmaker, a beauty salon, a watch shop, a summer school etc. These are not the types of organizations that would be taking work away from the average agency or design firm. These are the types of small jobs that designers usually get asked to do for friends or friends-of-friends."
I too have a new outlet for those friends and family requests I choose not to have time for…. crowdsourcing sites!
"The proof will be getting a large, ongoing and continually changing project from start to finish through crowdsourcing. This is the area where having a dynamic and ongoing relationship with a designer or agency is critical to the whole process, something that crowdsourcing cannot provide."
Agree! How the heck would you crowdsource a long term project with multiple meetings, multiple back-and-forth decisions, an ever-changing 'finish line', change of scope. In other words, that would be a tremendous amount of work exponentially duplicated on the client side for a small/medium business owner already strapped for time wearing multiple hats. Good luck with that.
Aaron Schneider
Associate Creative Director at a large agency & a small business partner with my wife
Jan 9 2012
Very well written piece Rick- I love when an Art Director goes ambidextrous. As a copywriter I'm not sure how much this would apply to me, but it's a much more intimate way for client and creative to see if they have synergy, rather than solely reviewing past work in portfolios. For juniors this sounds like a great way to build your base of experience and build relationships.
I do wonder if the issues of intellectual and creative proprietary rights will be an issue. It can be scary to put forth your work and not know what people will do with what they see, i.e. prospectors who could look, gather and use this as a source of refined raw material they take elsewhere. In a system with checks and balances I think this could really thrive and open many doors and builds valuable relationships.
Jan 18 2012
No industry specific knowledge to share, but wanted to send kudos to Rick for an excellent article – well written and well researched with a very interesting experimental forage into the crowdsourcing world. I'm also inspired to try it myself. Thank you for sharing.


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