At DesignCrowd 2013 has been a big year of milestones for DesignCrowd customers and designers. Like any startup we love numbers. So we thought we'd share some big numbers from our growing marketplace and showcase the top 50 designs from 2013. This design crowdsourcing roundup was curated by our customer support team aka the Justice League - a group of professional graphic designers turned elite customer support warriors imbued with special super-powers to spread happiness to our customers and designers.
The *big* numbers...
$13,300,000 in Designer Payments
Our customers have crowdsourced over $13,000,000 of graphic design services and worked with the world's best designers to get the company logos, websites and brand collateral they need to ensure their business looks good and stands out from the rest!
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2,836,725 Designs Uploaded
It's been a huge year here for DesignCrowd designers - our community has almost doubled in size in 12 months, now tipping 150,000 designers from around the world. Our amazing/supremely talented designer community has submitted nearly 3,000,000 designs, earning about a $1,000,000 a month in contest payments.
930 Contests Open Right Now
But wait there's more. DesignCrowd is growing so fast with customers launching design contests 24/7 that there are currently
930 design jobs open! Find design jobs now and start earning!
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Top Crowdsourced Graphic Designs ... from 2013
The following designs are handpicked by the DesignCrowd team. Ranging from logo design to website design to business cards to book covers, packaging design and illustrations of characters and brand mascots by Alexander and Ruyi Gan.
Each example originates from a client project launched in 2013 and earmarked as favorite by our team. Some of our top designers - BlueJet from Australia, Art Tank from Philippines have their exemplary design work on show again. What's interesting is that we have a slew of top emerging designers submitting high quality designs including Anne Lise H. Arnesen from Norway, Portuguese graphic designer Pablo Von Crust to GrayMind from Mexico and Stephanie Pearl from Philippines to name a few.
Enjoy this gallery of 2013's top 50 crowdsourced designs, check out the designer's porfolios and request a design from one of these young gun designers for your next design project.
Which design did you love? Who did we miss? Let us know in the comments below!
Written by Jo Sabin on Friday, December 20, 2013
Jo Sabin is Head of Designer Community at DesignCrowd. She's led the company's public relations and social media programs since 2012. With more than ten years' experience working with Australian and international tech startups in the creative industries, Jo has been instrumental in meeting DesignCrowd's objectives in Australia and abroad. Get in touch via Twitter.