A Designer’s Guide to Surviving Design Competitions
Carl Alviani: “If contests are so bad for the profession, why do we keep entering them?”
They require enormous effort, the chances of winning are slight, and even the grand prize doesn’t usually compensate for the time invested. Worse than all of this, participants stand to lose rights to their own work…
Australian INfront forum members have also been discussing design competitions recently, as one forum member says; “Trash for cash it is what it is.”
Agree? Disagree?




