I hesitated in posting this because technically this isn’t a client of mine. I’ll explain. There’s this site called Genius Rocket that puts designers together with clients. I think the idea is interesting, but where it kind of falls flat is, rather than letting the client decide on a designer via a bidding process, the designers are given a creative brief and complete the work in full, and the client picks out of the completed projects. To me, this results in a bunch of last minute entries, and not alot of quality overall. Then there are those of us that go out of our way to create a really quality product for basically nothing because our project didn’t get picked. I’ll just say that i’m glad I only spend $40 on the licensed images, and had a really awesome friend do the voiceover on spec. It represents alot of hours for a job that didn’t come through, so I find it unlikely that i’ll take that approach again. It does however, represent a valuable entry in my portfolio and as such, here it is. The Catalogue actually seems like a really great idea: You donate to this fund, and the good folks at the Catalogue do research and vet the different candidate organizations, and then give you a smarter choice of what causes you’d like to donate to. They also take your donations and multiply them, presumably through some investments.