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Originally Posted by squiggs96
None of these are immoral, lacking credibility, disobeying professional conduct, cheating people out of time/money, and/or set under false pretenses. Everything is disclosed and if you want to enter, you can. If you (general you, not specific you) are as talented as you think you are, then you don't have to do contest work, and can get paid for everything you do. A contest might allow an up and comer to showcase their skills, and it might produce an excellent final product that wouldn't have been thought of otherwise.
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On a basic level, you're right, nobody is being forced to enter. But you have to realize that as a whole, the design industry is too many times being asked to work for this magical carrot that rarely materializes in the end.
A lot of students and juniors will jump on this. And on many levels I can understand why...they want to prove their worth. But this will be the first of many in the cycle of "this will be great for your portfolio!" or "there will be more work after this" that they will face that inevitably goes nowhere. Every designer out there has a book's worth of stories of being screwed, whether it be out of money and credit.
If 200 designers enter a contest, and only 1 person is successful and gets paid... how exactly is this good for the design industry? Would any other industry be ok with this?