Crowdsourced Graphic Design Marketplace: DesignCrowd

Umut M. — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:58:19 +0000

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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Learn The Font Used By Uploading The Image

Umut M. — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:01:58 +0000

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.