Competitions . . . ???
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- Bastardo
Why should we have to pay to enter in a competition. That sucks !!!
It's like buy the lottery . . . . pfff
- monospaced0
How can you resist with these prize offerings?
"All winning entries will be featured on our website and receive a special mention in an issue of Print."
- monospaced0
Honestly, it's like any design competition. This isn't crowd-sourcing, they aren't looking for designers to fill a job, this is a respectable publication looking to showcase good work out there.
Nobody's asking for work to be created FOR this competition, just that you submit actual work TO the competition. Anyways, $25 isn't bad compared to some others. Business as usual.
- yeah $25 is pretty cheap for what they (most of them) charge.akrokdesign
- <ismith
- El_Montr00
you can always try www.crowdspring.com
Not the same thing and I really don't recommend it at all but if you're "lucky" enough, you might get around $250 for a logo.....lol
- jamble0
Awesome, you get to pay them to provide them with content for the next issue. Sweet scam if you can get people to enter.
- this is not a scammonospaced
- if it looks like a scam and smells like a scam...Milan
- but, it doesn't look or smell like one, so we're safemonospaced
- monospaced0
Wait people, do you not realize that this is a normal design competition? AIGA, which is the biggest advocate against spec work, does the same thing for its archives. Collecting amazing work and publishing it is standard good business!
Please stop assuming this is spec work, because it's not. We all purchase these publications to see what's going on in the design world.
- Meeklo0
Jamble:
in someways you are right, but also making people pay is a way to filter work, not necessarily "bad work" but it makes you think twice of what piece will you submit, and how many too.. in theory should force every designer to just pick one and hopefully is the best one.
I have entered another competition where the fee was $100 bucks, which is still pretty cheap compared to others and giving the reputation of the publication.
I didn't win, no mention not anything and money was gone.
It is just like the lottery :)
- Redmond0
I thought the 25$ was only for late entries.
- Meeklo0
"...AIGA, which is the biggest advocate against spec work..."
Not sure where you got that kind of information btw...
If I were you I would re-check my sources..
- monospaced0
@Meeklo
I have checked my sources. http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/…
- Additionally.
http://www.aiga.org/…monospaced - oooooooooooohhhhhhlambsy
- Ignore Meeklo.********
- Additionally.
- gramme0
Competitions are worth paying to enter because in order for any modicum of value or respect to be attached to the prospect of publication in these annuals, they have to first bring in accomplished industry heavyweights as judges. Otherwise, no one will take the competition seriously, which means little to no visibility for designers who enter work (the only reason—besides trophy-lust for some—that people enter competitions in the first place). These judges usually own their own studios or agencies, and have to be put on a plane or in a car and take a chunk of time away from their client work. It makes sense for them to be compensated for their time.
It's not like a publication such as Print, Graphis, CA, or Coupe merely drags their in-house magazine designers away from their desks to pick a few projects they like.
Then there are simply logistical costs of receiving and organizing entries, which for some of these annuals number deep into the thousands. The whole shebang takes considerable effort from a number of people.
- cannonball19780
Don't like it, don't pay
- eieio0
its the shitty competitions that make you pay that give paid competitions/entries a bad name
- monospaced0
@eieio
Are you implying that the GOOD competitions are free? If you are, give me one flipping example.
- oh wait...I see what you mean...the shitty ones are easy to avoid thoughmonospaced
- no i'm saying the bad competitions that charge for entry give the good ones that charge a bad rap.eieio
- < ignore memonospaced
- not always, lots of 'competitions' look respectable to impressionable peopleeieio
- gramme0
Mohawk Paper's annual show is a pretty good one, and it's totally free.
- johndiggity0
if you've never curated or helped organize, or judged a design competition i suggest you do so. very time intensive and a logistical nightmare. rest assured that $25 entry fee is money well earned.
- Bastardo0
Yeah, But come on, when the competition comes from a HUGE and FAMOUS magazine or Company like this, Don't you think that they already have the enough incomes, contacts and sponsors to make it ??
- ^monospaced
- ?Bastardo
- it has become huge because they are more selective dude.. if they didn't charge money it will thredless all over againMeeklo
- eieio0
doesn't mean they don't have costs that need to be covered. also its an effective quality filter as someone said.
- ********0
God damn. I know there are stupid people out there, and plenty of them, but the caliber of stupidity in this thread is astounding.