Beyond the Pen Tool: A creative blog by DesignCrowd - 'milestone'

DesignCrowd Hits $30M in Projects

Kevin Bradford - Wednesday, October 14, 2015

We love big numbers at DesignCrowd. Our creative community has expanded to more than 485,000 designers. 7.5 million designs have been submitted to our contests. And now, we’re delighted to announce we have hit $30 million in projects. Read more

DesignCrowd Raises $3 Million To Expand Worldwide!

Jo Sabin - Friday, November 15, 2013

In 2013, DesignCrowd has grown its designer community to 250,000; paid designers over $10 million in crowdsourced design projects and raised a second $3 million round of investment from Starfish Ventures.  Read more

DesignCrowd Hits $10 Million in Crowdsourced Design Projects - Thank You!

Jo Sabin - Friday, August 2, 2013

We're delighted to share this awesome milestone with you, cue drum roll... DesignCrowd just hit $10M in crowdsourced design projects! We couldn't have done this with out you! Thank you DesignCrowd customers and designers helping us achieve this fantastic milestone. Read more

Meet 6 of the Best Up and Coming Graphic Designers on DesignCrowd!

DesignCrowd - Thursday, July 18, 2013

DesignCrowd is about to hit 130,000 freelance graphic designers. That's a huge milestone, right? Our designer rankings are chock-full of top designers, including super-star designers like PB who hit $300,000 in design contest winnings last month and top UK female designer, Inspiral, who is one of the site's most in-demand designers. Today we feature six new up and coming de Read more

Crowdsourcing Goes Gangbusters! Our Designer Community Has Hit 100,000!

Jo Sabin - Friday, March 15, 2013

We're pleased to reveal that we've hit 100,000 registered designers on DesignCrowd! And we couldn't have done it without you!We're not just here to blow our own trumpet (though we don't mind a bit of that!). We have some interesting figures to share with you about the kind of work our designers are doing and where our community is booming. We're seeing tremendous growth in Read more

DesignCrowd saves small business $1M (and reaches 30,000 designers)

DesignCrowd - Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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 has recently grown to 30,000 (another milestone reached in April).While businesses have now spent $1M through DesignCrowd - a key question is: how much money have they saved?Ba Read more

20,000 designers - woot woot!

DesignCrowd - Thursday, October 7, 2010

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 amazing is that these 20,000 designers come from 140 different countries!  Most of our designers (65%) come from 'The big 5' - the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia and India - but we also boast des Read more

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