Why professional designers should NOT participate in Spec Competitions | Professional Practice

Speculative design award competitions would not thrive without the designers that submit work to them. This is why designers should choose to take a stance and not support this practice and why design organisations should play a role in supporting them. A primer by the International Council of Design.

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ICoD Best Practice Papers: https://bit.ly/ICoDBestPractices
ICoD Professional Code of Conduct: https://bit.ly/ICODProfCoC
ICoD position on unpaid work: http://bit.ly/ICODftunp

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The International Council of Design (ICoD) is a world body for professional design, representing more than 120 organisations in 45 countries. Founded as Icograda in 1963, it is a non-profit, non- partisan, member- based network of independent organisations and stakeholders working within the multidisciplinary scope of design.

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