{"id":1173,"date":"2008-05-22T08:39:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T15:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2008\/05\/mass_creativity\/"},"modified":"2008-05-22T08:39:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T15:39:15","slug":"mass_creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/mass_creativity.php","title":{"rendered":"Mass creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/\">CrowdSpring<\/a> is a new web resource that hopes to bring &#8221;crowdsourcing&#8221; to the daily lives of creative individuals. The site allows any individual or company to post a design need (generally logo designs at the moment), along with escrow funds to pay their promised fee, and then anyone can design and post a response. The response the client likes the best gets paid out of the escrowed funds. The others don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>While it may seem a bit brutal for the designer side (an individual could create a ton of spec designs and never get chosen), the system at least sets out a clear set of rules for the game.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see if more complex design demands can be satisfied through this system (a logo can take a few minutes or a few hours to design&#8230;if you&#8217;re only generating initial ideas&#8230;a full branding effort can take months). I wonder, for example, if anyone will post a request for a new composition.<\/p>\n<p>In the short term, it&#8217;s an interesting alternative for low-resource organizations to get high-quality (or at least high-volume) designs. In the long term, it may be a new way creative work gets done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CrowdSpring is a new web resource that hopes to bring &#8221;crowdsourcing&#8221; to the daily lives of creative individuals. The site allows any individual or company to post a design need (generally logo designs at the moment), along with escrow funds to pay their promised fee, and then anyone can design and post a response. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}