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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 someo
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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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DesignBay, 29/10/2008 Designe
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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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