This week on the Media Unbeige blog, there was an interesting post about 99designs receiving $35 million in funding. 99designs in a company that brings designers and companies together online. Essentially, it's a lot like what we did for the SJI project. A company submits a brief description of what they need designed, designers submit samples and the company picks a winner (who gets mulah). It sounds like a cool idea, but it seems to be kind of a rotten deal for designers. For example, more than 1300 designers submitted a sample for a job that pays $600, meaning 1299 designers just did a lot of work for nothing. It's cool that you have the opportunity to design for so many different companies, which could improve your portfolio, but at I don't think it's a sustainable way to make money.
Another site that offers a similar service is freelancedesigners.com. What I liked about this site was that it appears clients can hire a designer based on that designers uploaded portfolio and resume on the site. That way, you're not wasting the time of thousands of designers. However, the downside to this is that it would be harder to break into this business. On the other site, you could not have a very extensive portfolio, but you might blow someone away one time with your design. That doesn't seem quite as possible on this site.
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