In the latest installment of our Half-Baked Design Challenge, we gave some of our most creative friends 30 minutes to redesign the standardized test. Their solutions are at once absurd, profound, and probably not the answer to all our problems, so we also rounded up some of the fully-baked ideas at the forefront of this academic conundrum.
Four months ago, Caroline James and Arielle Assouline-Lichten, both members of Harvard's student group Women in Design, launched an online petition that quickly went viral in the design world.
Crowdsourcing has come to represent everything unethical about working with creative people. It is almost always synonymous with spec-work, or contests where everyone is making work for free hoping to be named the winner and receive the fabulous prize. Sadly, by design, 99 percent of the entrants will be labeled losers and the contest organizer will get to chose from a big pool of work that they didn’t have to pay for.