In the spirit of supporting design innovation and creativity, ideacious announced that the $20,000 FREEform Competition is now live!

Submit your best sketch, finished design, or achieve a presales goal on ideacious and you could win up to $20,000 in cash and prizes.

The FREE[form] competition not only gives you the chance to win cash and cool prizes - it also gives every submission the opportunity to put your idea into production (and making you profit) with no additional work or cost to you!

The Brief

The FREE[form] competition earns its name by allowing you the freedom (FREE) to design any object ([form]) for production – anything you want – no clients - no opinions (other than your own).

The FREE[form] competition begins - as most great ideas do - with the iconic napkin sketch (Tier 1), followed by a properly designed product submitted into the ideacious.com platform - ready for manufacturing (Tier 2).

Now it gets interesting; all competition submissions continue on in an attempt to find a group of early buyers to preorder a preestablished number of units required to put the product into production (Tier 3).

So at the end of the day, you’re looking to put this product idea into production using the ideacious platform. It’s a great idea to get as familiar with how ideacious works to increase your chances of success – certain product types are going to sell better than others, and price point is always a consideration. The clever monkey is going to understand the market... er... banana.

The Prizes

The FREE[form] competition launches with up to $20,000 in cash and prizes available to be won. Dollar amounts and other incentives may increase as we hunt down more co-sponsors.

The FREE[form] competition is open to anyone with a new idea for a product. The opportunity to win prizes is broken down into three stages, so more people can win something, but one person (or team) could still win it all.

Do it all and you could win up to $20,000 in cash and prizes from ideacious, and other co-sponsors.

Tier 1 of 3 begins as most ideas do, with a napkin sketch. Be sure to see the brief for details, but in short, come up with an awesome product that retails for $99 or more and send us a short description and a sketch. Any submissions sent before February 1st will be entered in a draw to win ideacious swag, including Penny Hockey Sets, Foreword shelves, Magpins, 4 Cities Coasters, and more.