🏆designers’ proposition🥊

if you win, you earn. No more chasing clients.

There is no minimum quota of entries. You enter as many or as few competitions as you like.

we’ve got you covered (if the project continues beyond Stage 2).

you will have access to legal licenses with no restrictions (if the project continues beyond Stage 2).

You will be able to nominate any client who operates in a malicious spirit to be included on this list. Future designers will be able to access it and the client’s ‘patron score’ so they may decide whether to work with them or charge an additional risk premium. Designers shall drive design and interactions shall be driven by fairness.

the competition is one entertaining way to democratise access to design projects. They harness your agency and desire for differentiation rather than your network’s abiility to commission schemes. Our contest is setup to avoid unfair advantage - which is typical in regular market patronage - adjudication fatigue - that is typical in regular competitions - implausible proposals - many competitions are often over embellished with the fantastic - vague briefs and we are honest that the winner is selected based on the patron’s taste. Because ‘design’ - as a discipline - has different taste than a patron, designBouts also selects a winner (architect’s winner). The patron’s winner wins the prize money; the designBouts winner wins ‘street cred’. Designers with higher street cred will receive a bigger share of the prize money from the competitions they win. They can also receive other priveledges like design expeditions / sabbaticals.

designBouts is the space where prospective patrons / clients meet designers who can deliver a project to their requirements and preferences. Thus, you will be exposed to a broader group than your existing network or its reach. More importantly, our patrons have indicated a desire to invest in ideas (or they should not have approached designBouts) so your role is to present and dazzle rather than pitch and convince.

designBouts is architecture’s standup. Whether you are an experienced pro or an emerging graduate, designBouts allows you to flex: winners get all the glory, losers get humility and the standard of design increases.