As I was driving into the Lijit offices, I was thinking about this years SXSW conference, and how different it would be for me. I was thinking about the posts I had read from friends who were going and had gone before. The difference for me this year will be striking (speaking vs. not-speaking, know...

Jeremiah Owayg wrote a post about spec work, and in a comment I asserted that spec work leads to theft. I’m curious if I am right about this, so let’s put the numbers out there: $3000 for a laptop (could be cheaper, but assuming a MacBook Pro, which I am typing this on) $1700 for Creativ...

Speculative work (asking someone to complete a job as an application is a loose promise to pay them if you want to) is evil. No way around it.  Check out No!Spec if you are unfamiliar with the subject.  Here is my take: If you are a company that needs a phenomenal designer / writer / developer / m...

A few days ago, a young designer thought they’d take a stand against spec work, and uploaded the NO!SPEC logo to LogoSauce (a website offering logo design competitions). In response, an article was published on the LogoSauce blog, no-spec vs spec. The author of the blog post had this to say ab...