Please note that I really don't know about timeframe/lack of designer problems--that's just an interpretation!  Things have the same feel as other places I've worked where that has been the case--which has been most of the web development companies I've worked for, honestly, so even if it does work like that (which I really don't know for certain, mind you) I wouldn't lay all the blame at Renderosity's doorstep--much of the industry is exactly the same.

And I say this without the coordinator hat on, although I suppose I didn't say I wouldn't complain when I signed up, lol, but this really is personaly opinion.