Crowdsourced Graphic Design Marketplace: DesignCrowd
It is sometimes the lack of inspiration or resources or being too busy, there is usually a moment that every designer, developer & creative agency wishes the touch of a magic hand that would create for them.
DesignCrowd, a marketplace for graphic design & creative services, can be what you're looking for & more.
It is a web-based service that helps you to get multiple custom designs for a project (~20-100) via crowdsourcing.
The service has 2 ends, you can be the "client designed for" or the designer (or both):
Outsource Your Design Works – outsource.designcrowd.com
This is the place to reach 12,000 designers & outsource design jobs like PSD web design, logo design, etc.
Outsourcing is completely turn on & off, no setup fees, monthly payments, etc.
It is very straight forward & results are received in a few steps:
- post a brief of your project
- get multiple designs from designers, ask for revisions & create a short list
- show the designs to your client via a white labelled web interface, email or PDF
- choose the best design
- that's all
The service is white labelled which means you can brand it however you like & present to your clients as your interface.
Jobs For Designers – jobs.designcrowd.com
This is where the design jobs & a number of contests exist.
It is a very ideal place to make a good use of free time to build a portfolio on real projects & earn money by participating into jobs posted.
You can select from a list of jobs & submit any number of designs to increase the chance of being selected as the winner. You can also find multi-quote jobs and submit quotes.
Although the winner is awarded with the project budget, there are also participation payments where you can be paid even if a design submitted is not selected.
Conclusion
DesignCrowd, with how it works & the community it has, can be a time-saver for anyone in search of a designer that can create 10s of designs to choose from in a very short time.
After digging DesignCrowd in detail, I really think that every design-related person can find a use of it.
To find out what type of a design quality to expect, there is a list of top designers which you can see what they have already created.
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5 Responses for "Crowdsourced Graphic Design Marketplace: DesignCrowd"
I like this. Very powerful. A number of advantages over outsourcing marketplaces and design contest sites.
I particularly like what they’re doing with participation payments. Is subtle but seems like they’re actually making an effort to make design contests sustainable and fair. Don’t think it’s quite there yet (participation payments are $20). Could be a bit higher but when some projects are 0.5hrs work that will at cover cost of time in.
$250 for website designs?
$70 logo projects?
Pure evil.
good. i will try this
NO NO NO and NO again!
I don’t have time right now to launch another lengthy post about WHY crowdsourcing/contests/spec work is bad–for client and designers alike. But you can investigate the following links:
http://www.no-spec.com/
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/07/interview-with-specwatch-the-naked-truth-about-design-contests/#comments
i tried it and i loved it!
didn’t win my first project but was payed a participation payment. they still look to be growing but i think there is more here than just the same old specwork website.