Comments on: Is it fair to have public design competitions being entered by design professionals? http://www.dot-design.co.uk/is-it-fair-to-have-public-design-competitions-being-entered-by-design-professionals Logo Design / Graphic Designer / Brochure Designer Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:46:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Capo For Guitar http://www.dot-design.co.uk/is-it-fair-to-have-public-design-competitions-being-entered-by-design-professionals/comment-page-1#comment-28505 Capo For Guitar Thu, 20 May 2010 16:29:27 +0000 http://www.dot-design.co.uk/?p=620#comment-28505 I would like to include your weblog to my blogroll please tell me what anchor should I use? I would like to include your weblog to my blogroll please tell me what anchor should I use?

]]> By: Amanda Vlahakis http://www.dot-design.co.uk/is-it-fair-to-have-public-design-competitions-being-entered-by-design-professionals/comment-page-1#comment-12669 Amanda Vlahakis Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:41:54 +0000 http://www.dot-design.co.uk/?p=620#comment-12669 I don't think it's particularly unfair in the scheme of things, however feel that ideally the public should be made aware that it's open to design firms also so they can decide if they want to bother wasting their time, because the chances of them winning is very unlikely due to this. I suspect the general public don't quite realise that design firms are entering such things and hence that is the bit that has a degree of unfairness to it, in that the public are almost being duped. If they want to do 'real' public competitions they really should just ban design firms and then it would be genuinely 'the public', but we all know full well that these 'public' competitions are just stop them looking so bad whilst they trying to get free concepts from designers. As if we don't know why they do them eh. I wonder how many examples there are of 'public' competitions that have been won by non professionals. I don’t think it’s particularly unfair in the scheme of things, however feel that ideally the public should be made aware that it’s open to design firms also so they can decide if they want to bother wasting their time, because the chances of them winning is very unlikely due to this.

I suspect the general public don’t quite realise that design firms are entering such things and hence that is the bit that has a degree of unfairness to it, in that the public are almost being duped.

If they want to do ‘real’ public competitions they really should just ban design firms and then it would be genuinely ‘the public’, but we all know full well that these ‘public’ competitions are just stop them looking so bad whilst they trying to get free concepts from designers.

As if we don’t know why they do them eh. I wonder how many examples there are of ‘public’ competitions that have been won by non professionals.

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