Hasta La Creative!

I admit that I feel a little sorry for Derek Powazek here, since he has the awesome trackrecord being one of the founders of JPG Magazine.

His new toy, Pixish isn’t receiving the rave reviews one might expect. Why not? Because it smells like spec work and spec work is shit as we all know. Even if Powazek doesn’t think it really is spec.
If you didn’t realize spec was bad for you (and me, and everyone else) here’s ten reasons to ponder over at No Spec! which we’ve shown you y’all before.
PDN Pulse sums it up with “Will Work For Prizes”

What’s really scary is that young, tech-savvy artists are being groomed to think they are contestants reaching for a prize, rather than creative professionals with valuable talents.

Beckley works says “I beg to differ. Pixish is work on Spec”.

The whole “contest” concept is the problem. If the winner gets paid it doesn’t mean the many others who submitted work didn’t waste their precious time, and undermine their field. The only party guaranteed payment in this scenario is Pixish.

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