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Originally Posted by Table 5
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?
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Lots of other industries do bid work for free. In this case the difference between a the finished product and the bid is likely limited so it isn't quite comparable. But it is quite common for engineering firms to spend 1%-5% of the expected value of a contract in pursuit of the contract which unless they win there is no recapturing of that bid money.
This is significantly different then a contest though.