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$3,000 'Hire Me' Facebook Design Contest Winners Announced!

$3,000 'Hire Me' Facebook Design Contest Winners Announced!

DesignCrowd - Friday, September 21, 2012

A couple of months ago we launched a contest that got our designer community really excited. Designers were invited to submit a design advertising their services for the chance to share in $3,500 cash prizes. 662 designs later and we're delighted to announce the names of the two winners of the Facebook 'Hire Me' $3,000 Designer Contest.In first place for 'Most Likes', winning $1,500 is ... Read more

Virgin Crowdsources $3,500 T-shirt Contest on DesignCrowd

Virgin Crowdsources $3,500 T-shirt Contest on DesignCrowd

Jo Sabin - Thursday, September 13, 2012

Virgin HealthMiles has launched a $3,500 t-shirt design contest on DesignCrowd! Part of the famed Virgin Group, owned by Sir Richard Branson, designers from around the world are invited to create a t-shirt graphic for Virgin Healthmiles company members.   This is a challenging brief. Your t-shirt design is part of a mission to "change adult health behavior". You need to consider the ta Read more

App Design: 15 Examples of Skeuomorphism in User Interfaces

App Design: 15 Examples of Skeuomorphism in User Interfaces

DesignCrowd - Thursday, July 12, 2012

By Jo SabinAs digital consumers, every day we are exposed to skeuomorphic design elements. In it's simplest definition, a digital Skeuomorph (pronounced skew-o-morf) is an element that retains the look, feel and/or functionality of it's real-world counterpart. Skeuomorphism is a major design element present in both User-Interface (UI) design as well as User-Experiences (UX) and can have a profound Read more

20 Business Apps for Freelance Designers

20 Business Apps for Freelance Designers

Jo Sabin - Monday, July 2, 2012

As a designer, you know the tools get to freelance design done efficiently and effectively: you've got apps like Photoshop and Illustrator and specialty tools like FontLab installed and ready to go. But what about the business and administration apps? What do you use to deal with tasks involved with bookkeeping and client collaboration?  Read more

DesignCrowd Launches $3,000 'Hire Me' Facebook Design Contest!

DesignCrowd Launches $3,000 'Hire Me' Facebook Design Contest!

DesignCrowd - Thursday, June 21, 2012

We're super-excited to announce the launch of DesignCrowd's $3,000 Facebook Design Contest!We're inviting DesignCrowd designers to create an enticing/compelling/luscious/cool/awesome graphic promoting yourself on DesignCrowd - hence the theme 'Hire Me on DesignCrowd.com!' We want you to upload your graphic(s) to the contest page and share the graphic with your friends and the DC commun Read more

Showtime (USA) Crowdsource 'Dexter' T-Shirt for 7th Season Launch on DesignCrowd - New Contest!

Showtime (USA) Crowdsource 'Dexter' T-Shirt for 7th Season Launch on DesignCrowd - New Contest!

Jo Sabin - Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Dear Dexter Fans,The international hit TV show Dexter featuring America's favorite fictional serial killer, Dexter Morgan, has launched a 'killer' Dexter-themed t-shirt design contest on DesignCrowd! Channel your inner 'dark angel' and express your passion for the TV show character Dexter for your chance to win $500. This is a killer opportunity for DesignCrowd designers to get expos Read more

Top 12 Canadian Designers

Top 12 Canadian Designers

DesignCrowd - Wednesday, June 6, 2012

DesignCrowd Canada has launched and in this post we're highlighting a few of the best Canadian designers. Between the following 12 designers below, they have submitted over 9325 designs to 3912 briefs, on average submitting 2.4 designs per contest. Out of those briefs, they have won 337 of them  and earned stacks of prize money - for example Elisha Leo has earned $30,00 through DesignCr Read more

$10,000 Logo Contest Launches on DesignCrowd!

$10,000 Logo Contest Launches on DesignCrowd!

Jo Sabin - Monday, May 21, 2012

Attention designers! TimesSquare.com - a news and entertainment guide website focused on the Times Square district in New York City - has launched a $10,000 logo contest on DesignCrowd! It's time to fire up your imagination and start designing for this brilliant logo competition!From neon-lit billboards featuring pop star Justin Bieber to the famous  Read more

Logo Games App ... Free Logo Quiz Game Hits Top 10 in App Store

Logo Games App ... Free Logo Quiz Game Hits Top 10 in App Store

DesignCrowd - Saturday, May 12, 2012

Introducing the Logos Quiz Game app - the 'logo game' for the iPhone and iPad that is taking the world by storm.If you haven't seen people playing the game, you soon will.  The free logo game (which can be downloaded from the App Store) is currently listed by Apple as a Top 10 App in 8 countries around the world - including Australia, Ireland and Belgium!  While other "logo games" have come and go Read more

Interview with UK Designer & Musician Mark Curran

Interview with UK Designer & Musician Mark Curran

Jo Sabin - Thursday, March 15, 2012

You may know Mark by his moniker, BigBlueCurrant on DesignCrowd and our sister site, BrandCrowd. Mark Curran is one of DesignCrowd's most in-demand designers so we've asked him to share with the community some insights into his design practice and the influences that shape his work. Today the spotlight is on Mark, let's get to know him better! Enjoy, and tell us who you'd like to see pr Read more

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