The pop reports for the 2010 design contests now are making more sense. The total pop reports are around 40+ each card on avg compared to the art academy cards which are around 20+. This makes sense if the 2010 design cards had double the release. On a side note, the 2009 design contests cards are still trailing far behind.
Also if you if you look at pichu’s thread from 2019, the pop for the design cards were 37 on avg. The pops haven’t increased that much in the past 3 years even after they became popular/expensive and worthy of grading, which suggest to me that they are still limited cards without too many extra copies.
www.elitefourum.com/t/the-2009-illustration-contest-a-card-quantity-query/23277/1