Design contest…the debate rages on
by Rob Mason ~ June 5th, 2008 Filed under: Strategy, Work.
I’ve posted on the subject of design competitions before, which failed to reach a suitable conclusion for me, however I did stop entering them shortly afterwards.
But a recent article over at Sitepoint titled Design Contests Made Me A Better Designer has rekindled my interest somewhat. Basically the article is with Richard Scott, a designer who has been very successful with using design contests as his main income so understandably argues for them. The crux of the article is that the debate exists and will always exist because that’s life, but he sees it as a viable, if not slightly addictive, method of generating design work. If everyone agreed on everything all of the time life would be dull and grey.
So with that in mind I’m going to start a small experiment in my spare time and focus on one or two competitions to see what results I get. It’s not going to be overly scientific, but will give me a good indication of whether I think Richard’s success can be repeated (not suggesting I’m as good a designer as he is by the way).
