eyeka design competition
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I hate the language these organisations use, they're so focused on positives like 'get noticed', 'expand your folio', 'compare work with others', 'make contacts'. What about things like 'you will work for free', 'it probably wont help you get a job', 'only 1 in 200 will win and 1 in 1000 the win will mean anything to their career'
Crowdspring does the same by making it like some sort of club 'were all in together' 'lets learn off each other', 'if one wins, we all win'.
Thats all well and good but it completely misses the point about design as an industry and not as a hobby. And design and its close association is manufacturing and its service relationship to clients.
Sure there might be the odd person who might make it to being selected as 'armanis new compaign' but is that rewardworth the time and effort of the other contestants? Is my work any less value because it wasn't selected a winner.
As a professional, I would say no. As a designer, I would say no also. As a creator and originnator of work, I would say 'No'. Within the confines of these sorts of competitions, its like design is viewed as some sort of beauty parade where the participation the act of doing is almost as valuable as the doing itself. (see rise of design community sites that pass judgement over work but produce none themselves). A winner is the one who flukes being close to the brief, or at other times, is the one who produces style led ideas free work. The client loses out here too, (but usually not the big ones as they already have a design firm on roster) because gueswork rarely produces work of any originality or thought.
There is this belief that notoriety, profile and 'big clients' means you do meaningful work. Quite, frankly, i seek person fulfillment and rate the value of my work by a different yardstick than that.
- well said sir. Pretty much the same points I was trying to make.shitehawke
- excellent post and points!
+1lvl_13 - you said it better than me ;-)thebottlerocket
- nah, and you've far less typos in yours too!shitehawke
- good points bottlerocket but I still think I was more succinct ;)kelpie
- Aye kelpie, fucking ahoy!shitehawke