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DesignCrowd,
5/12/2012 7:00:52 PM
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Introducing the Logos Quiz Game app - the 'logo game' for the iPhone and iPad that is taking the world by storm.If you haven't seen people playing the game, you soon will. The free logo game (which c
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DesignCrowd,
3/15/2012 4:50:20 PM
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The first graphical user interfaces were modeled on the metaphor of a desktop, with folders and windows that worked like papers scattered across a desk - not to mention the tidy bin by the desk for al
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DesignCrowd,
3/15/2012 1:10:16 PM
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You may know Mark by his moniker, BigBlueCurrant on DesignCrowd and our sister site, BrandCrowd. Mark Curran is one of DesignCrowd's most in-demand designers so we've asked him to share with the commu
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DesignCrowd,
3/14/2012 7:44:01 PM
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The UK startup scene is booming with many interesting startups creating new market opportunities around crowdsourced models to the rise of the tech-savvy urban locavore to social music services and mo
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DesignCrowd,
3/10/2012 6:26:21 PM
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To celebrate International Women's Day 2012, DesignCrowd is celebrating and acknowledging top female designers from around the world!Support women in the design industry by hiring one of DesignCrowd's
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DesignCrowd,
2/23/2012 10:00:42 PM
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In early December, Twitter rolled out a new design - known as 'new new Twitter' having followed so soon on the heels of the previous major redesign. One of the less loudly touted features introduced a
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DesignCrowd,
2/23/2012 8:29:50 PM
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Sometimes a business needs a logo fast. Sometimes getting a custom logo design might not yield the right result. Sometimes a designer submits a design to a client that doesn't get used. This is whe
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DesignCrowd,
2/23/2012 7:12:00 PM
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DesignCrowd recently launched in the UK! So we thought we'd do a blog post highlighting DesignCrowd's best UK designers! As background, we at DesignCrowd have noticed that the UK is a great source o
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DesignCrowd,
2/16/2012 3:24:59 PM
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UK businesses and designers can now use DesignCrowd to work directly/exclusively with eachother via a new feature on DesignCrowd.co.uk. UK business customers now have the ability to crowdsource logo,w
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DesignCrowd,
2/16/2012 2:39:56 PM
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Dear "Mother Country" / UK entrepreneurs / UK designers / UK DesignCrowd Users, DesignCrowd is delighted to announce that we've launched a new UK website for DesignCrowd - DesignCrowd.co.uk. The new
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DesignCrowd,
2/15/2012 4:47:24 PM
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To celebrate the launch of DesignCrowd.co.uk - DesignCrowd is offeringUK businesses and entrepreneurs a free posting on ANY logo, website or graphic design project to for the months of February and M
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DesignCrowd,
2/10/2012 6:40:56 PM
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Social media is the best thing to happen to small business owners since the personal computer. Social apps like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare enable small businesses to compete with big brands by g
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DesignCrowd,
2/10/2012 4:59:52 PM
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St Valentine, love and the heart are great sources of inspiration, not only for lovers and poets but also designers, bloggers and business owners around the world. We've noticed love-themed (in partic
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DesignCrowd,
2/10/2012 4:43:40 PM
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Logo design trends start with niche groups of visual designers creating a particular visual style. Often these concepts are inspired from adjacent creative practices (think music, literature, fashion
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DesignCrowd,
1/27/2012 9:43:38 PM
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To continue the Australia Day celebrations this weekend, we've created some shareable little Aussie icons you can send to your mates. To shout your mate a virtual beer or a
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DesignCrowd,
1/27/2012 9:39:39 PM
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A really cool new feature available to Australian customers is the ability to crowdsource logo, website, print and other graphic designs from their favourite local Aussie d
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DesignCrowd,
1/27/2012 9:31:03 PM
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We're excited to announce that we've launched Australia's first only country-specific crowdsourcing service. Our new site - www.designcrowd.com.au - allows Australian businesses to crowdsource designs
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DesignCrowd,
1/16/2012 3:07:58 PM
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DesignCrowd logo designers can now sell unused logo designs (i.e. logo designs that were not selected / purchased / used by clients) via BrandCrowd.com. This will help you make money from every logo
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DesignCrowd,
1/11/2012 3:07:53 PM
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Dear Designers and Customers,We're pleased to announce that our recent acquisition of Brandstack has grown our design community to more than 50,000 designers (you heard me).To celebrate this and the e
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DesignCrowd,
1/11/2012 12:19:10 PM
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We'd like to introduce some of the top logo designers on BrandCrowd.com (which was previously known as Brandstack) to the DesignCrowd user base (and to simply show some love to some of our fav designe
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DesignCrowd,
1/9/2012 5:34:57 PM
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The startup / tech-scene boomed in 2011, wavered somewhat and then soldiered on. Tech businesses weathered natural disasters, GFC "2" and, sadly, the passing of Steve Jobs. Despite this, Groupon and
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DesignCrowd,
12/30/2011 1:49:00 PM
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To celebrate the launch of BrandCrowd.com, we are offering a $20 discount on any logo on BrandCrowd that you purchase! Browse the logos now and make sure you use the following discount code:Discount /
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DesignCrowd,
12/30/2011 1:00:44 PM
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We are pleased to announce the launch of BrandCrowd (www.brandcrowd.com).BrandCrowd is a marketplace for premium, ready-made logos and brands. You can use BrandCrowd to browse thousands of beautiful
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DesignCrowd,
12/30/2011 12:41:21 PM
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DesignCrowd is pleased to announce to its beloved users the acquisition of Brandstack.com, a leading online marketplace of premium, ready-made logo and brand marketplace, where designers can upload th
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DesignCrowd,
11/28/2011 11:49:12 AM
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Anyone who has the Internet has used Google and anyone that's used the Google more than once has probably noticed that Google's logo changes from time to time. This is part of Google's Doodle4Google
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DesignCrowd,
11/25/2011 4:22:03 PM
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Bright logos that use a number of colors are great. They're eye-catching in a sea of drab logos, which works well for businesses, and they have that playful, light-hearted feeling that makes viewers f
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DesignCrowd,
11/25/2011 3:07:18 PM
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DesignCrowd is on a recruitment rampage! We're looking to hire some talented, motivated, brilliant, noble, hard working and creative people into the DesignCrowd team. We've got loads of positions av
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DesignCrowd,
11/7/2011 4:51:45 PM
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Dear designers / entrepreneurs / friends,We're very happy to announce that DesignCrowd has received a $3 million venture capital investment from Starfish Ventures.Starfish Ventures is an Australian (M
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DesignCrowd,
10/12/2011 11:19:58 AM
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Excellent news for New Zealanders - we have just launched DesignCrowd.co.nz. That's right, New Zealand now has a site dedicated to helping NZ businesses "crowdsource" creative projects to designers ar
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DesignCrowd,
10/11/2011 1:21:33 PM
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Silicon Valley is the place most people think of when talking about startups, while Israel, India, China and more recently Australia are receiving honorable mentions as foreign investors are developin
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DesignCrowd,
10/11/2011 1:18:33 PM
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With the Rugby Union World Cup currently underway in New Zealand, we thought there is no better time to look back at some of the top Rugby World Cup poster designs from over the years. We take a look
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DesignCrowd,
10/11/2011 1:06:03 PM
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New Zealand is a place that puts a huge amount of value in national symbols. The silver fern is the most prominent among these - as you'll see in this roundup, Kiwis find many ways to work the fern in
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DesignCrowd,
9/12/2011 11:29:54 AM
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Universities, colleges and tutorial bloggers are brilliant at teaching designers how to use Photoshop, Illustrator and other design software. But they rarely introduce designers about other useful ca
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DesignCrowd,
9/12/2011 11:16:22 AM
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Our top logo designers are constantly churning out creative logos (via our crowdsourcing process). Here are some of the best from August 2011:Raw Studio by GohdezignShakr by HellorexIsland Power by B
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DesignCrowd,
8/30/2011 2:59:37 PM
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Every man, woman, friend and cousin has had a business idea. Seeking to pursue their dream (or perhaps inspired by Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Tony Robbins or The Social Network) we have countless friends w
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DesignCrowd,
8/30/2011 12:39:28 PM
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If you're starting a business (or considering starting a business), there are a number of reasons a recession or downturn (e.g. the current economic downturn) is a good time to start. For example, du
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DesignCrowd,
8/29/2011 11:35:25 PM
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They say that starting a business during a recession is, contrary to what many would say is common sense, the best time to do so. But some businesses do better during recessions than others — it’s har
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DesignCrowd,
8/5/2011 6:49:13 PM
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DesignCrowd visited Zappos offices in Las Vegas last month and, in addition to taking a few happy snaps, we took away some ideas and learnings about an importa
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DesignCrowd,
8/5/2011 1:32:56 PM
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We've just launched some new affiliate tools (from banner ads to videos) to help you (affiliate marketers, customers, designers or secret admirers) promote DesignCrowd with their friends, families, bl
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DesignCrowd,
8/5/2011 12:41:35 PM
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This blog post was written by Angela Farrell (Sydney based graphic designer and art director). Angela was a member of Australia's 2008 Beijing Olympic Sailing team. You can hire Angela via Angela's
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DesignCrowd,
7/27/2011 2:45:03 PM
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Need a metallic graphic design? Check out the tutorial below, download the free Adobe Illustrator file below or hire James Turner (the designer) on DesignCrowd. See how James T
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DesignCrowd,
7/13/2011 6:07:10 PM
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In this article, we speak to one of our designers, Aart Tanner from Netbloom in California (USA). Check out Aart's Netbloom designer portfolio on DesignCrowd today.About Aart TannerAre you male or fe
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DesignCrowd,
7/13/2011 5:17:58 PM
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Last week DesignCrowd visited Google's "Campus" headquarters in Mountain View California. In a nutshell, Google's Campus is Disneyland for the computer geek. Upon arrival we were immediately struck
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DesignCrowd,
7/12/2011 3:24:48 PM
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"Deal of the day" or "Group Buying" websites are popping up all over the world. They're the new startup trend and the valuations and capital they're attracting are creating waves in the online world
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DesignCrowd,
6/29/2011 5:24:32 PM
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While browsing projects in DesignCrowd's list of graphic design jobs, you'll see an avatar wearing a green shirt () and you might wonder what that is all about! This icon () indicates that the project
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DesignCrowd,
6/17/2011 4:09:49 PM
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Like the rest of the design industry, DesignCrowd has a range of designers with varying levels of experience. This is reflected in the diversity of the design bids that clients receive. Want to attr
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DesignCrowd,
6/6/2011 4:20:10 PM
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In this article, we speak to one of our DesignCrowd designers, Stuart Burns, who has become one of the top ranked logo and business card designers — check out Stuart’s designer portfolio here.Burns’ D
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DesignCrowd,
5/30/2011 2:48:54 PM
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DesignCrowd is pleased to announce the launch of our affiliate program. This program will allow anyone (designers, customers, affiliate marketers, web hosting comp
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DesignCrowd,
5/24/2011 3:15:55 PM
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Need to a character design, character illustration or comic book illustrator? Check out the tutorial below, download the free Photoshop file below or hire Michael Patrick on DesignCrowd.
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DesignCrowd,
5/23/2011 11:25:29 AM
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Advertising in the digital age is more ubiquitous than ever. With increasingly interactive and unconventional advertising formats, it is sometimes easy to forgot about one of the fundamental classic m
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DesignCrowd,
5/21/2011 3:18:21 PM
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When you’re creating a brief for a graphic designer, it’s tempting to stick to the bare minimum: “Auto shop with older customers driving mid-range cars” is a good start, and it may do you some good. B
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DesignCrowd,
5/17/2011 3:19:59 PM
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When it comes to increasing conversions in any web-based sales funnel, much of the focus is usually on the copy — and rightly so, as that’s where most of the heavy-lifting is done. But the design elem
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DesignCrowd,
4/26/2011 7:43:17 PM
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DesignCrowd recently reached a big milestone - as of April, we have now paid out $1 million to graphic designers from 72 countries around the world. This is fantastic for our designer community that
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DesignCrowd,
4/26/2011 6:23:21 PM
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Everyone in the world is aware of what happened in Japan in early 2011. The tsunami, the earthquake and the resulting catastrophe with the Fukushima Nuclear power plant has captured the world's atten
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DesignCrowd,
4/25/2011 5:55:43 PM
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The adoption of the CSS3 media queries specification by most major browsers has been a great thing for the web. More designers are paying attention to mobile design than ever before, and not only that
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DesignCrowd,
4/13/2011 3:43:12 PM
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Arun Bhattacharya (a Kolkata based Indian web designer) has earnt an amazing $10,000 his first 4 weeks on DesignCrowd in what can only be described as a design cont
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DesignCrowd,
4/11/2011 8:40:53 PM
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This blog post was written by Elisha Leo - the #1 logo designer on DesignCrowd and winner of '2010 Logo Designer' award on DesignCrowd. DesignCrowd is a design marketplace that offers designers both
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DesignCrowd,
4/9/2011 12:58:52 PM
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Hi everyone!Velaro.com has just posted an $8000 SaaS website design contest on DesignCrowd (that's right $8,000 - well actually ... $7,960 ... but still, massive). It is for a fully coded website (so
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DesignCrowd,
3/25/2011 10:58:41 AM
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Steve Jobs is the CEO (and a co-founder) of Apple. He's a co-founder of Pixar and Time magazine's person of the year 2010. Through his career and through Apple Steve Jobs has had a huge impact on th
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DesignCrowd,
3/21/2011 3:18:22 PM
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Need to use some symbol fonts? Not sure if you need webdings, windings, carta or dingbests? Check out this free font symbol wall chart provided by DesignCrowd's James Turner.Need a graphic design wi
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DesignCrowd,
2/24/2011 4:12:58 AM
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In this blog we interview Kim Heras (Aussie tech startup guru and former writer at Technation and TheNextWeb) about his latest venture: the Australian Startup Accelerator PushStart (see also PushStart
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DesignCrowd,
2/24/2011 3:32:58 AM
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Brilliant business ideas are generated daily by budding entrepeneurs. Unfortunately bubbles can be burst and business sometimes fail (illustrated by low % of businesses that last more than a year). A
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DesignCrowd,
2/11/2011 4:38:41 PM
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In this article, DesignCrowd designer Crystal Bernia reveals the Top 100 Design Blogs ranked by traffic and categorized by topic.The world wide web is constantly sprouting new design blogs. Amazingly
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DesignCrowd,
2/1/2011 5:29:01 PM
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We are pleased to announce we have added a Voting/Polling tool to help customers get opinions and votes designs they receive on DesignCrowd. This allows project owners to
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DesignCrowd,
2/1/2011 2:16:32 PM
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5 Unusual Crowdsourcing Projects When you think of graphic design crowdsourcing (and projects suited to design crowdsourcing) you probably think of logo design and web des
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DesignCrowd,
1/23/2011 9:58:40 PM
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Need to design a web 2.0 logo? Want to get a slick wordmark logo? Hire Clément Nicolle, read his tutorial below or download the vector file Tutorial by Clément Nicolle
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DesignCrowd,
1/11/2011 6:00:30 PM
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Web design is a fast evolving industry and as such the trends in the web industry are ever changing. In today's modern market it has become a rich,
mature medium
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DesignCrowd,
1/11/2011 3:55:15 PM
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Having so many amazing designers on DesignCrowd.com gives us a chance to really learn a thing or two about design, the design industry and what drives a good designer. The following interview
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DesignCrowd,
1/10/2011 4:43:31 PM
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50 Australian Startup Logos Despite the recent economic downturn, start-up companies are still proving to be at the forefront of economic growth. There have been some fantas
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DesignCrowd,
1/10/2011 3:26:41 PM
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We have decided to inverview some of our intrepid designers on what they do, how they do it and what makes them tick in terms of design! (We also threw in a few questions about DesignCrowd so
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DesignCrowd,
12/27/2010 3:11:11 PM
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2010 Logo Designer Award Winners!It's time for our annual logo design awards and this year we would like to congratulate Elisha Leo as the winner of "Best Logo Designer of 2010." Our "Best New Logo D
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DesignCrowd,
12/24/2010 4:49:20 PM
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2010 Web Designer Awards
2010 Web Designer Award Winners!
It's time for our annual web design awards and this year we would like to congratulate Xpiderz
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DesignCrowd,
12/17/2010 12:43:49 PM
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Startups have flourished in 2010. The last 12 months have yielded some fantastic success stories. Groupon is a standout and is currently receiving a lot of attention, buzz and press. Some believe th
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DesignCrowd,
12/16/2010 4:23:09 PM
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Need to design a fruit logo? Check out Clément Nicolle's tutorial below or hire Clément through his portfolio.You can also download the above free strawberry logo vector below!Tutorial by
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DesignCrowd,
11/29/2010 6:30:50 PM
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Origami logos are in vogue. Learn how to make an origami logo design (like the one below) via this premium tutorial written by DesignCrowd's own Elisha Leo and published on BlueBlots!
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DesignCrowd,
11/26/2010 6:52:32 PM
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Businesses and designers can now use Facebook and Twitter to promote themselves via DesignCrowd!
We've integrated Facebook and Twitter features throughout DesignCrowd allowing project owners (busin
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DesignCrowd,
11/26/2010 5:13:00 PM
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Witkey is the Chinese word for crowdsourcing and (thanks to sites like TaskCN.com, Zhubajie.com and Witkey.com) Witkey might be (already) bigger business in China than crowdsourcing is in the US, UK,
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DesignCrowd,
11/19/2010 5:52:10 PM
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Logo contests might be the best option for startup company looking for a new logo on a tight budget but a number of the world's most famous logos and big brands have benefited from the value and creat
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DesignCrowd,
11/19/2010 5:06:40 PM
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Web design contests involve posting a brief and getting 20, 30, 50 (or sometimes 100-plus!) web design concepts from designers around the world. Clients all request different things - but one th
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DesignCrowd,
11/3/2010 12:45:21 PM
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If you did a quick internet search to find the list of the largest employers in the world, you would get the following well-known organizations: Peoples Liberation Army, China, 2,300,000 employee
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DesignCrowd,
10/28/2010 11:28:15 PM
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Dirt.com recently posted a logo contest on DesignCrowd ("Kick Ass Logo That Will Make You Famous") and in response received a whopping 630 playful logo designs. After recently selecting a winn
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DesignCrowd,
10/28/2010 8:44:11 PM
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Crowdsourcing (the process of using an open call contest or a 'crowd' of people to get something done) is a buzz word that was coined in Wired Magazine by author Jeff Howe in 2006, but the process of
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DesignCrowd,
10/7/2010 3:59:27 PM
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Poster design often provides great scope for creativity. Events, DJs and festivals all need posters and the nature of these clients allow for more creative graphic design. Below are 14 bea
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DesignCrowd,
10/7/2010 3:09:31 PM
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We're pleased to announce the winner of our designer widget
contest as Harry Jay (of HarryJay.org)!
Harry's widget received over 500 views in September and as the most viewed widget he'll receive "2
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DesignCrowd,
10/7/2010 12:19:57 AM
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In addition to the stellar growth of our graphic designer community, we're very pleased to announce that the DesignCrowd business is going gangbusters too! In the last 12 months we've grown the
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DesignCrowd,
10/7/2010 12:16:38 AM
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DesignCrowd is proud to announce that in early October we signed up graphic designer number 20,000 (as of today we have 20,311 graphic designers - see our graphic designer directory)! Even more
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DesignCrowd,
10/7/2010 12:11:05 AM
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We wanted to celebrate reaching 20,000 graphic designers on DesignCrowd and we thought "what celebration is complete without a collage or montage?" The answer: none. So, here is a collage of
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DesignCrowd,
10/5/2010 11:03:03 PM
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Design contests can help you get creative designs and ideas from around the world but a design contest can also help you promote your product or service; generate positive
PR; engage with c
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DesignCrowd,
9/14/2010 4:52:24 PM
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If you are a new designer (perhaps with no designs in your portfolio and no customer feedback) you can create a basic 'Hire me' widget. Here's what a basic 'Hire me' widget looks like: Powered by
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DesignCrowd,
9/10/2010 6:32:19 PM
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Print design encompasses flyer design, poster design and brochure design. The skills to produce all of these design types are similar but the techniques, software and skills used are quite different
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DesignCrowd,
9/10/2010 1:29:22 PM
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The other week I attended a series of expert round tables for small businesses and technology companies hosted by The Insight Exchange (topics included search marketing, content curration, iPhone app
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DesignCrowd,
9/1/2010 6:18:14 PM
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Over the past few weeks we have been actively been asking designers what they would like to see in their my profile page. As such, we have been busy implementing as many of these feature requests as p
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DesignCrowd,
9/1/2010 5:16:28 PM
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Have you ever submitted a bunch of designs to DesignCrowd and wished they automatically showed up on your personal website? Or maybe you are jumping up our designer rankings and would like to adv
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DesignCrowd,
8/5/2010 1:08:14 AM
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DesignCrowd has (finally) launched a facebook group! http://facebook.com/DesignCrowd
Our DesignCrowd fan page is intended for bot
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DesignCrowd,
8/3/2010 12:43:23 PM
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Udaya Kumar (designer of the Indian rupee) has joined the DesignCrowd community as a designer (view Udaya's profile page here). Udaya (who we interviewed last week) specialises in graphic
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DesignCrowd,
7/28/2010 8:22:20 PM
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Last week, the Indian Government completed one of the most successful, high-profile crowdsourcing projects ever when it revealed its new symbol for the Rupee () which was created through a public desi
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DesignCrowd,
7/15/2010 4:25:22 PM
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Meet Crowdrise (www.crowdrise.com) an online fundraising service that is essentially a charitable crowdfunding site (based on the principles of crowdsourcing).
Crowdrise is genius and, at some leve
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DesignCrowd,
7/8/2010 3:51:49 PM
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Wine Logo Designs and Wine Labels - Here are 6 famous wine logos (shown on the actual wine labels) for some of the most expensive wines and champagnes in the world ...
#1 - Grange Hermitage Label a
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DesignCrowd,
7/1/2010 2:25:01 PM
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About 4 years ago I was in New Zealand and I walked past a church with a clever, funny and striking billboard:I didn't take a photo at the time but, thank iGod, after 4 years of inaction someone did t
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DesignCrowd,
6/29/2010 5:36:51 PM
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Negative space logos are a particular type of logo that makes use of background colour (often white) to create something (such as a shape, icon or character). Negative space logo designs make for some
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DesignCrowd,
6/29/2010 1:29:22 PM
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Crowdfunding websites are a new way to get money from the community / other people for your project, charity or business and they are an exciting new application of crowdsourcing!
Here's a definiti
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DesignCrowd,
6/29/2010 12:06:29 PM
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Crowdsourcing can take many forms - for example, you can crowdsource feedback, you can crowdsource t-shirts, you can crowdsource funding and (of course) you can crowdsource design (DesignCrowd is a
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DesignCrowd,
6/9/2010 11:44:33 PM
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To celebrate the release of the invite system (in addition to the new and improved designer portfolios), I thought I would spend some time looking through the designer directories and pick out some de
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DesignCrowd,
6/7/2010 6:11:13 PM
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Recently, we came across TinEye (www.tineye.com) which is a brilliant, and currently free, resource for checking the originality of images online in seconds.
This is an incredibly useful too
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DesignCrowd,
6/5/2010 8:41:37 PM
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Dear designers,
As of yesterday (with the introduction of new paid invite system and new designer portfolios) participation payments now work differently.&n
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DesignCrowd,
6/5/2010 8:32:14 PM
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*Drum roll* ... the DC team is extremely proud to unveil brand new graphic designer directory!
We have launched directories for each of our product categories. Here are some examples:
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DesignCrowd,
6/5/2010 8:00:36 PM
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Yesterday, DesignCrowd launched a new form of crowdsourcing - hybrid crowdsourcing. Its key feature is this: customers can invite specific designers to work on their design projects via paid inv
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DesignCrowd,
6/1/2010 5:13:49 PM
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Congratulations to Zubin Kutar a pro blogger from WebTrafficROI in Canada for taking out DesignCrowd's $1,000 award for the blog with the most tweets (Zubin's blog received a wopping 205 tweets!). Yo
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DesignCrowd,
5/24/2010 5:12:05 PM
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Online forums are useful resources for small businesses. They can help you solve a problem; provide a means of business networking; and/or help you advertise your goods / services (particularly
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DesignCrowd,
5/20/2010 4:39:10 PM
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Customers are always asking "What happens if I don't like any of the designs?"
Well, now we have a good answer: We offer a 100% money back guarantee.
...
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DesignCrowd,
5/18/2010 6:41:16 PM
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We like to think that you (the users of DesignCrowd) drive the car; we just make sure the motor runs. On a regular basis, we receive hundreds of requests and updates to DesignCrowd. In fact, I can alm
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DesignCrowd,
5/5/2010 4:20:16 PM
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If you didn't already know, we've just launched a DesignCrowd blog contest for $1,000! This page is to help you with any questions you have about the contest or DesignCrowd itself ...
(If you
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DesignCrowd,
5/5/2010 4:20:03 PM
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Yo! We've just launched a DesignCrowd blog contest. Check it out here: http://www.designcrowd.com/blog-contest! Got questions? Visit th
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DesignCrowd,
4/30/2010 6:01:32 PM
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Logo bids, in general, come in two forms:
1) Logos - actual, custom (sometimes finished) logo design concepts
2) Proposals - quotes or pitches to engage in future logo design work
The ter
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DesignCrowd,
4/26/2010 11:28:21 PM
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Almost every business needs a website and, more and more, businesses need websites with strong design (to stand-out from their competitors) and websites that convert (to ensure their advertising leads
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DesignCrowd,
4/26/2010 10:03:47 PM
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DesignCrowd is fortunate to have a constant influx of new design talent. As at Monday 26 April 2010 9:53PM Sydney time we had 14,605 graphic designers on DesignCrowd.com. While we welcome
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DesignCrowd,
4/26/2010 9:14:15 PM
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DesignCrowd has now launched RSS feeds! These feeds are perfect for keeping up-to-date with our latest blogs (useful for business owners AND designers) as well as the latest design jobs as the
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DesignCrowd,
4/19/2010 10:54:26 AM
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Free logo design is tempting for businesses on a shoestring budget - but they can be a big mistake. Free logos are often cliche, cheap and impossible to trademark. Here are 5 free logos th
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DesignCrowd,
4/9/2010 1:21:43 PM
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Simple logos are the best kind of logos - if you want proof of this, all you need do is look through the top 100 brands of the world.
In the universe of logos there are 5 main types: wordmar
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DesignCrowd,
3/26/2010 4:56:49 PM
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Designer-to-designer outsourcing (or D2D outsourcing) occurs when one designer or design related business (a company, studio or freelancer) uses another design
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DesignCrowd,
3/26/2010 3:47:48 PM
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Post any project on DesignCrowd in March and receive 50% off posting fees and any project upgrades! Remember to enter the code march-madness on step 5 of the order process to receive your discoun
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DesignCrowd,
3/26/2010 2:40:08 PM
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Logo
redesigns are unavoidable as businesses naturally change and
design/marketing techniques improve over time. High profile logo
redesigns (good or bad) always garner publicity. Howev
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DesignCrowd,
3/24/2010 5:01:35 PM
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DesignCrowd is pleased to announce a number of changes to our site and our design brief / order system. These changes affect both customers buying designs as well as our designers. Changes
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DesignCrowd,
3/12/2010 12:53:41 PM
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DesignCrowd has added some super cool features to our graphic design jobs page to make finding projects on DesignCrowd easier!
New Filtering
You can now:
Sort by the size of the jo
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DesignCrowd,
3/10/2010 4:58:33 PM
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Dear designers and readers of this blog,
DesignCrowd is growing fast (think Yao Ming as a teenager) and, as a result, we're looking to hire talented and sma
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DesignCrowd,
3/4/2010 10:20:11 AM
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To date on DesignCrowd, we've allowed customers to set any budget on projects with "no minimum". We wanted to let the size of the budget dictate the response and we wanted to keep the site as o
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DesignCrowd,
2/23/2010 10:09:54 PM
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Design contests put an army
of designers (sometimes tens of thousands) at your
disposal - harnessing this many people, naturally, requires thought and effo
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DesignCrowd,
2/16/2010 2:58:15 PM
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Today we officially launched our new graphic design outsourcing platform to help design related businesses outsource their client design projects! The pl
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DesignCrowd,
1/27/2010 5:49:03 PM
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Most regular DesignCrowd users would agree, we have come a long way. It's taken time but we are now in a position where we can confidently say: not only do we have a brilliant product but we also have
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DesignCrowd,
1/25/2010 1:35:41 PM
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09 Lab has won the "Best Web Designer of 2009" award on DesignCrowd while Urban Ad from Australia has taken out the "Best New Web Designer of 2009" award.
A
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DesignCrowd,
1/25/2010 1:34:08 PM
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Jason Shaw from Jace Design Canada has won DesignCrowd's inaugural "Best Logo Designer of 2009" award while DustinC (also from Canada) took out best newcomer.
Canadian designers dominated De
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DesignCrowd,
11/27/2009 10:00:04 AM
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We received a fantastic response to the Brand Australia logo contest. 362 logos designs, 110 designers, 19 countries. A great example of the power of crowdsourcing. The winners (who are an
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DesignCrowd,
11/24/2009 11:36:58 AM
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What is DesignCrowd?
DesignCrowd is a marketplace for any type of graphic design from logo design, stationery design and web design to illustration, poster and t-shirt design.
Who is
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DesignCrowd,
11/23/2009 9:25:18 PM
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Dear DesignBay User,
DesignBay has been growing rapidly and to build on this I'm please to announce that we recently acquired and have now merged with another large freelance graphic design com
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DesignCrowd,
10/13/2009 3:57:57 PM
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G'day,
DesignBay with the help of our friends at B&T (yes, you heard me, B&T magazine the leading ad mag down-under) have launched a contest to get logo and tagline ideas for the Austra
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DesignCrowd,
9/17/2009 2:09:36 PM
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We are proud to unveil the greatest waratah logo ever made* and announce Dustin Crawford (of DustinC Canada) as the winner of our NSW Logo Contest. Unfortunately, but perhaps not surprisingly,
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DesignCrowd,
7/17/2009 8:08:36 PM
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Designers!
The NSW Government has botched their new logo so we're going out on a limb and running a contest to give them a better one! We've just launched an in-house $1,000 contest to improv
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DesignCrowd,
7/8/2009 11:21:53 AM
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Dear designers / anonymous blog-readers,
We've done a bunch of updates to DesignBay including improving your profile, improving how everyone views designs as well as more information on job brief
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DesignCrowd,
6/5/2009 2:12:23 PM
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Dear Customers and Designers,
DesignBay now requires that
customers prepay design contests. This means, for all new design contests,
customers must now deposit their full budget with De
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DesignCrowd,
5/26/2009 2:40:26 PM
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Firstly, thanks to everybody who came down
to CeBIT Webciety to visit us at the DesignBay stall. We met so many great
people, including other web start-ups, entrepreneurs, programmers,
designers
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DesignCrowd,
5/26/2009 1:39:25 PM
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Hi all!
Non-Logo Contests (Website, Flyer, T-shirt, Brochure etc... Contests) Check them out!
Some astute designers may have noticed that
recently we have been getting more non-logo contest
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DesignCrowd,
5/10/2009 8:41:47 PM
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DesignBay is proud to announce we will be running a crowdsourcing experiment as part of Webciety 2009 Sydney and we want you (designers, our customers and the public) t
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DesignCrowd,
4/30/2009 12:54:36 PM
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Yo, we have news!
DesignBay is exhibiting at CeBIT Webciety Australia 2009 (which is a part of the broader CeBIT 2009 ICT tradeshow - a down-under, spin-off of CeBIT's massive European trade
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DesignCrowd,
4/29/2009 2:32:28 PM
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DesignBay users needing design work done can now run private contests through DesignBay!
Private cont
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DesignCrowd,
4/4/2009 6:30:19 PM
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Well done to the winners of the HI-TEC shoes icon design contests!
HI-TEC is a major international brand. This is great for your portfolio and should help you win over future clie
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DesignCrowd,
4/2/2009 5:10:49 PM
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Yo!
You have been regular in submitting great designs, so you deserve this regular, metamucil-like blog! You might be interested in the new designer rankings just out for March 09 (published
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DesignCrowd,
3/12/2009 5:08:08 PM
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HI-TEC have just posted their 3rd contest for icon design on DesignBay after getting an amazing number and quality of icon designs on their 1st contest submitted to their first project from a truly in
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DesignCrowd,
3/9/2009 4:34:38 PM
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Hola!
It has been a long time since I last blogged and it has been a long time since Michael Jackson toured. Fortunately (and unlike MJ) this will not be 'our last time' - I promise to make b
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DesignCrowd,
1/22/2009 7:47:54 PM
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Dear Designers,
You may have noticed DesignBay has had some technical problems in the last 5 days. On Sunday 18th January our server experienced a problem and our system was dramatically affe
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DesignCrowd,
12/20/2008 12:30:43 PM
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DesignBay, 20/12/2008 Hi everyone, Jenny Witte or 'NiteOwl Designs' is a work-from-home mother and a great graphic designer wh
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DesignCrowd,
12/15/2008 1:49:53 PM
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DesignBay, 15/12/2008 You might have seen our new offer to refer designers and get 1% of their earnings. This post is an explanation of what it's al
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DesignCrowd,
12/8/2008 1:44:30 PM
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Designers & DesignBay aficionado,
We have added 6 hot new features to DesignBay and you guys have added over 1000 designs in the last month. Our
customers love it! We have set the table and som
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DesignCrowd,
11/20/2008 3:44:38 PM
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DesignBay, 20/11/2008 Designers, friends & anonymous blog observers You can now communicate better with customers and get expe
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DesignCrowd,
10/29/2008 12:20:59 AM
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Attn Designers. You can now review quotes and designs you have submitted through the Submissions section of your My Profile. You can also add an 'About' section to your public profile explaining ab
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DesignCrowd,
10/13/2008 1:36:37 AM
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DesignBay, 13/10/2008 Designers now have the opportunity to enter open brief design conte
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DesignCrowd,
9/29/2008 7:21:51 PM
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DesignBay, 29/09/2008 Creative peoples and DesignBay contributors! During September we've had over $4000 of projects on Design
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DesignCrowd,
9/8/2008 10:00:44 PM
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DesignBay, 8/09/2008 Hey all! We've had lots of new projects lately! We're keen to hear what you think. There's currently o
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DesignCrowd,
8/19/2008 9:12:49 PM
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DesignBay, 19/08/2008 We have been churning out improvements on DesignBay (and finding new projects) during August. Recent Des
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DesignCrowd,
7/20/2008 4:33:27 PM
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Authorities on design publish articles on logo design trends every year but a closer look shows a common vein of 7 logo design styles that have been with us for at least 5 years. , These 'trends'
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DesignCrowd,
7/14/2008 1:23:07 PM
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Our customers are clamoring
for more quotes and (incredibly) some projects are going without any
quotes. , If customers are not offering enough money for a logo design
or a web design - le
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DesignCrowd,
6/25/2008 7:05:03 PM
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DesignBay, 25/06/2008 We've got some new customers who are requesting quotes on DesignBay. To clear up confusion there are two types of briefs on De
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DesignCrowd,
6/25/2008 5:42:22 PM
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DesignBay, 25/06/2008 We have a number of customers taking a very long time in deciding which design they want and sometimes not replying to emails.
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DesignCrowd,
6/25/2008 5:22:14 PM
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DesignBay, 25/06/2008 Lincoln Hotels & Suites have decided to close their brief 1 week early as they have already selected the logo they
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DesignCrowd,
6/25/2008 5:20:10 PM
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DesignBay, 25/06/2008 April has been a good month for DesignBay - we've had some fantastic submissions, new briefs and have added some ne
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DesignCrowd,
6/25/2008 5:20:10 PM
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DesignBay, 25/06/2008
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DesignCrowd,
6/25/2008 5:18:29 PM
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DesignBay, 8/09/2008 Hey all! We've had lots of new projects lately! We're keen to hear what you think. There's currently o
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DesignCrowd,
6/25/2008 5:17:54 PM
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DesignBay, 25/06/2008 The winners of the DesignBay logo brief have been released! We've selected joint winners (and the result
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DesignCrowd,
6/25/2008 5:17:26 PM
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DesignBay, 25/06/2008 56 logo submissions, 25 designers, 5 place payments and 1 winner to choose. We have a tough decision to make in se
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DesignCrowd,
6/25/2008 5:17:04 PM
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DesignBay, 25/06/2008 The DesignBay website is not finished yet - it is ... yes, beta. However, rather than being a 'beta release' I lik
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DesignCrowd,
6/25/2008 5:16:38 PM
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DesignBay, 25/06/2008 A (completed) connect-the-dots flyer Today we marketed DesignBay to creative talent at leadi
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DesignCrowd,
2/28/2008 5:16:08 PM
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DesignBay, 25/06/2008 Congratulations to Fiona Johnston for being our first designer to win a brief! Fiona earned US$300 for
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DesignCrowd,
1/10/2008 5:15:25 PM
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In 2007, the London Olympic Games Committee paid the Wolff Olins brand agency £400,000 for a logo that sparked a public backlash and was famously condemned as "a puerile mess, an artistic flop and a c
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