Univited logo competition by Victor & Spoils - exploitation !
Victor & Spoils - a financially healthy Crowdsourcing organisation now owned by Havas global advertising network ran the uninvited logo competition for their own benefit - not for the benefit of the designer whose only reward for her hardwork was a bit of PR - not a job - there never was a job.
If Victor & Spoils want to gain PR and gain branding projects from large corporates off of the back of graphic designers - they should have made a financial reward available to the so called winner - err... winner of what.
The design industry is so easy to exploit and Victors & Spoils (the clue is in their brand name) is clearly very good at it.
As the designer did all the work for free and for nothing in reality - she might also find that she has also blown her intellectual property. She applied no formal protection over her work such as using Creative Barcode or any other mechanism (www.creativebarcode.com)
This is not the way designers gain work at all - it is pure exploitation by others for their own benefit not hers.
