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Is it fair to have public design competitions being entered by design professionals?

By Gareth Coxon | January 14, 2009

After my post yesterday highlighting The Royal Mint’s new design competition to design a 50 pence for the 2012 London Olympics I came across a story on the Design Week website: Royal Mint to Launch Olympic coin competitions
Which details that there has been some negative feedback from the design community after

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Design your own coin for the London 2012 Olympic Games

By Gareth Coxon | January 13, 2009

The Royal Mint is currently running a design competition that’s open to everyone in the UK.
The design competition involves designing the new 50p piece that celebrates the forthcoming 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games. The design competition is open to all UK residents aged 13+, 27 designs will be chosen – one for each of [...]

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