February 2009
Since it launched last May, the crowd-sourcing design website CrowdSpring.com has been causing a stir in the design community.
Advocates praise the site's ability to put businesses looking for creative help in touch with talent they might not otherwise find.
It is, they argue, a great leap forward in the democratization of design, a big trend in the creative community these days.
The site's critics, mostly professional designers, generally seize on one major issue: They argue that designers shouldn't "work in advance of getting paid" with an ironically irrelevant metaphor: "You can't go to the new restaurant at the top of Trump Tower, ask for a taste and then decide if you're going to pay."
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