You might not now but recently the world's biggest logo marketplace Brandstack.com was acquired by DesignCrowd. It's since been relaunched as BrandCrowd, a marketplace for designers looking to sell any unused logos and for anyone hunting for a logo design.

The marketplace is offering a quality experience for both parties;

• only high-quality designs are accepted so buyers browse through a well-designed set of logos
• designers focus on creativity without being directed by a client brief

The process to sell logo designs is pretty straightforward, upload the designs with a short brief and they are ready to be purchased after the BrandCrowd team places them under the right categories so buyers can find them easily.

The user profile also function as a portfolio of items for sale where your designs are listed and the price you've set is displayed to the user. Sellers can receive offers from buyers who want to make an alternative offer to buy the design and/or request modifications to the existing design.

Listing items is completely free and BrandCrowd only gets a commission when there is a sale. After each sale, the company contacts buyers to verify the purchase, which means logos are protected.

If you want to buy logos, things are all good as well. Browse the logos, filter with keywords (for ex :check the design and creative services logos) and, if found a logo meeting your requirements, just pick the item and it is all yours (won't be resold to anyone). As the buyer gets the vector files, it is possible to easily apply updates on it.

Re-selling/Privacy

Interestingly, there is a feature available to buyers (such as web design agencies) to allow them to make a purchased logo hidden or private.

This is useful if you're looking to:

• re-sell that logo (potentially with a margin)
• just wanting to hide the logo for your own business so that people don't know where you got it from.

Conclusion

BrandCrowd (which used to be known as Brandstack) appears to now moving forward with a new name + energy.  Our take: it's a risk-free opportunity for unlocking the value of any used logo designs and a great place to buy a creative logo for yourself (or your clients).

A smart and good-looking logo is a must for every company but, probably, a design company needs something better than that.

If you were a coffee shop or a restaurant, it is pretty easy to guess "the ingredients of the logo". For a web & design studio, what is the shape of creativity?

While browsing for beautiful logos, we have realized few trends that design studios use to represent themselves like using a pencil, light bulb, animals or many colors to show the creative power inside.

Here are 45 inspirational logos of web & design studios:

Pencil In Logos

Amiri Web and Graphic Designer

Siah Design

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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.

We sometimes try to understand the font used in images / logos and we don’t have the source files.

What The Font is a free service by MyFonts which lets you upload an image, scans a large font database and gives you the font name as a result.

Even if you searched your font in What The Font and couldn’t find the font, you can still post the image in What The Font forum to ask help from the community.