Welcome to Contesterous!
Community driven design contests are, without doubt, turning the design community upside down. More important than the effect that crowd sourcing design is having on the business of custom graphic design, open design competitions have, and continue to, allow more and more designers from all walks of life and situations contribute to, and profit from the design industry.
Just as blogging has done for the publishing of news stories (any newspaper publisher to slow to evolve will soon disappear), design contest sites allow us, the community access to a huge number of paying briefs and projects. The barrier to entry has not been lowered, the barrier has been ripped down!
Exactly like in the news industry, music, film and almost every other industry imaginable, those that embrace, adapt and morph to the strengths of this teenage internet of ours will lead the way. The graphic design world is about to explode with creativity and see off the slow, stubborn and doomed designers that are too busy complaining about copyrights issues, the non-exploitative fees and anybody who dares to break ranks from the traditional agencies.
Crowd sourcing and community submitted contest models are about to spread across many new markets during 2010. As this movement grows, so will the technology to support and improve the platforms pioneering the wave of change.
The aim of this site is not to bring down those that do not believe in change. Equally, there is no intent here to convert or prove community design contests to be the only way forward. Contesterous has been started, purely with the aim of contributing to and enriching the community of creative humans (commonly known as employees, bosses and customers) that share their time, designs, votes, comments and cash. Contesterous is all about YOU!
Because Contesterous is about you design contest loving people, I want to know what’s important to you?
So I have given you the opportunity to let me know exactly what in the world of design contests you want to explore. Make use of the Contesterous “What’s Important To You?” survey by answering a few multiple choice questions and help direct the crowd sourced development of Contesterous’s future content and features.
In true contest fashion, there will be a prize draw at the end of March April. The lucky winners will receive… well, I’m not sure what yet. The prize will be selected bearing in mind the feedback you give in this short poll. (So be honest!)
I would love to get your opinions and preferences so please help yourself to “What’s Important To You?” community survey, by clicking the link below now. (You will NOT be directed off this page.)
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