Are design competitions worth competing and investing in?

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GoodBrief

Are design contests worth entering? If your hope is that a company will see your contest entry and decide to hire you, probably not. Contests may be helpful, though more for developing a designer's skills and giving them a winning or placing entry that they can use to promote as opposed to gaining organic notoriety from the contest itself. It is true, though, that being able to promote oneself as an "award-winning designer" can have some value in legitimizing the designer in the eyes of prospective clients. It may be better to develop design skills using challenges or sites that generate fictional briefs. Here are a few: Dailylogochallenge.com Goodbrief.io Www.briefbox.me Fakeclients.com You may also want to seek out design competitions, which (when the term is used correctly) indicates that past real world work will be reviewed as opposed to designers creating new work, often around a specific theme, that design contests request. When looking for design competitions as a new designer, be aware that many entrants are seasoned design veterans or creative agencies whose work quality and resources are likely to be far more developed than a new designer.

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FakeClients

Are design contests worth entering? If your hope is that a company will see your contest entry and decide to hire you, probably not. Contests may be helpful, though more for developing a designer's skills and giving them a winning or placing entry that they can use to promote as opposed to gaining organic notoriety from the contest itself. It is true, though, that being able to promote oneself as an "award-winning designer" can have some value in legitimizing the designer in the eyes of prospective clients. It may be better to develop design skills using challenges or sites that generate fictional briefs. Here are a few: Dailylogochallenge.com Goodbrief.io Www.briefbox.me Fakeclients.com You may also want to seek out design competitions, which (when the term is used correctly) indicates that past real world work will be reviewed as opposed to designers creating new work, often around a specific theme, that design contests request. When looking for design competitions as a new designer, be aware that many entrants are seasoned design veterans or creative agencies whose work quality and resources are likely to be far more developed than a new designer.

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