No longer fulfilled with the day-to-day running of a website and a blog, I decided to introduce a third tier to my website a few weeks ago.

For the last few weeks I have been running a weekly design competition for my friends which allows them to showcase new and varied work and vote on a winner. So far there is no prize for winners although it is a good accolade to win something like this. In the future I am looking into introducing something else as an incentive.

The competition has been successful so far as I am finding that people are having a lot of fun with it. I have learned that injecting humour into each competition allows for really funny entries, and encourages people to be clever with their designs. Ultimately I think this is a good way of constantly challenging your skills as a designer, and it helps to see other people’s interpretations of projects in order to improve for next time.