Crowdsoucring your graphic design. It blows. I have proof.

I was inspired by Marco Echevarria's article "Crowdsourcing your graphic design work. Is it a good idea?" No, it's a horrible idea. And I'll tell you why. I have to. I saw a few people actually defending the practice and while "crowdsourcing" not up there with "seal-clubbing" we need to expose crowdsourcing for what it is. Legalized slave labor. Okay, maybe not that bad, but still… it's definitely not a good idea.

The argument has been made that many of the designers that participate in crowdsourcing are not in fact true designers. Possibly. But let's face it, the new economy has made life extremely difficult for most of the American population so I imagine there are at least 20 to 30% of those crowdsourced designers are in fact highly disillusioned and spiteful graphic designers that are working three jobs to make ends meet. The rest are the typical pile of hacks and wannabes. Many are designers that have little or no regard for "copyright infringement."  More on that in a second.