{"id":4714,"date":"2015-01-21T07:28:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T12:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4714"},"modified":"2015-01-21T07:28:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T12:28:22","slug":"students-tell-government-they-wont-work-for-free-on-logo-for-canadas-150th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4714","title":{"rendered":"Students Tell Government They Won&#8217;t Work For Free On Logo For Canada&#8217;s 150th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/2015\/01\/20\/mytimehasvalue-canada-150-logo-birthday_n_6510432.html\" target=\"_blank\">Students Tell Government They Won&#8217;t Work For Free On Logo For Canada&#8217;s 150th Birthda<\/a>y<\/h3>\n<p>Many young Canadian designers are expressing outrage that the federal government would ask them to work for free.<\/p>\n<p>The Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rgd.ca\/2015\/01\/13\/my-time-has-value.php\" target=\"_hplink\">launched a campaign to boycott<\/a>\u00a0the Canadian Heritage ministry&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada150.gc.ca\/eng\/1407417717020\" target=\"_hplink\">competition to find a logo for Canada&#8217;s upcoming 150th birthday<\/a>\u00a0in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Anchored with the hashtag\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23mytimehasvalue&amp;src=tyah\" target=\"_hplink\">#MyTimeHasValue<\/a>, the campaign seeks to highlight how design competitions have become a means for companies and governments to obtain free work from designers, particularly when they&#8217;re young. The logo competition is open only to post-secondary students.<\/p>\n<p>While the creator of the winning logo will receive $5,000, RGD president St\u00fcssy Tschudin says that doesn&#8217;t even begin to be fair.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Imagine 500 students enter the contest. Each student spends 10 hours on a design, which totals 5,000 hours of work. At minimum wage in Ontario ($11), this amounts to $55,000 worth of free labour,&#8221; said Tschudin in an email. &#8220;The fact that one of those students will receive a prize doesn\u2019t negate all of that other free labour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students Tell Government They Won&#8217;t Work For Free On Logo For Canada&#8217;s 150th Birthday Many young Canadian designers are expressing outrage that the federal government would ask them to work for free. The Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) has\u00a0launched a campaign to boycott\u00a0the Canadian Heritage ministry&#8217;s\u00a0competition to find a logo for Canada&#8217;s upcoming 150th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[2787,103,1662,2784,2786,2785],"class_list":["post-4714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-mytimehasvalue","tag-canada","tag-federal-government","tag-free-work","tag-volunteerism","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4715,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions\/4715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}