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STuart says
What I’ve never seen addressed whenever designers mention “spec work” is how a new designer goes about getting themselves a portfolio of “in the public” designs.
Without the ‘in the public’ aspect then a portfolio is just an interesting concept.
So, spec work works for the newbie designer. They get to have published works and they get to refer to it in their porfolio.
That’s one aspect – the other question that I always have when folks come out against spec work is “how does a charity or similar not-for-profit ever find a design or designer if not via spec work?” If all designers took the no to spec work approach then I fear the world would be a far greyer place.
These are genuine queries I haven and would love to have some genuine answers to both.