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Originally Posted by thehardtruth
"Contests" are bad for the design industry. Any designer who participates in these contests is only contributing to the problem.
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Actually, your ideology might have some merit but actuality comes into play and smacks your ideology square in the nuts!
This (like most business) revolves around advertising - it's why we hire designers to create banners/websites we can use to advertise with. Do you think because you are a designer you don't need to advertise yourself/skills/business too?
There are hundreds of designers who post/read this board. Do you think I have time to go look at the portfolio of every single one of them?
Contests are a way designers can post an example of their work and catch my eye. They might not win the contest but will pick up a new client or 2 and a prime example of this is "ella" who posted in the logo contest for 5 star electric in another thread. Until their post I had no clue they/she/he existed and now I do and I just added them to my list to speak to about doing some design work.
Impulse buying and selling... all good graphic designers get that concept and it carries through in the design work for their client. Submissions in logo contests get me to go look at their portfolio.