Fuck off is it... get a sponsor, or beg for spec work. Don't dress it up like you're doing the "designers" the favour.
jono, are you a trained designer with a portfolio full of current high profile clients? if you are, then maybe this isn't for you.
IF you're not, then STFU and recognise that a huge number of keen young designers would love to work on a project that has the potential to get them in in a competitve market.
I would never hire a rookie designer when I ran a studio without being damn sure that they'd done some decent size freelance...
Maybe it's not your idea of an opportunity - fair enough but 13 or so years ago I would have been all over this.. so really it is all a matter of perspective.
jono, are you a trained designer with a portfolio full of current high profile clients? if you are, then maybe this isn't for you.
IF you're not, then STFU and recognise that a huge number of keen young designers would love to work on a project that has the potential to get them in in a competitve market.
I would never hire a rookie designer when I ran a studio without being damn sure that they'd done some decent size freelance...
Maybe it's not your idea of an opportunity - fair enough but 13 or so years ago I would have been all over this.. so really it is all a matter of perspective.