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20 Green Logos for Organic, Green and Eco Companies

Jo Sabin - Wednesday, October 16, 2013

The color green is uplifting, and popular in graphic design. Many companies love to use the color to communicate energy, youth and wellbeing. From web 2.0 companies to food companies, it's a popular color. From tree logo designs to the trend in 'green packaging', to app design, green is easy on the eye and carries a timeless essence due to its inherent connection to nature. Consider using green for your next design project. Read more

Logo Design Tips: Top 20 Canadian Logo Designers on DesignCrowd

Jo Sabin - Wednesday, October 2, 2013

This post is features a round up of the top 20 logo designers in Canada on DesignCrowd for your design inspiration. We'll also take a look at why logos are important and share some tips for logo development if you're an entrepreneur looking for design advice.  Read more

5 Logo Competition Tips for Entrepreneurs

Jo Sabin - Thursday, September 26, 2013

In this post we will outline 5 tips to help you get the best design in a logo competition.Introduction to Crowdsourcing DesignSpeed of execution. Creativity and innovation. These factors are important to entrepreneurs trying to build a new business. Which is why when enterpreneurs need design like a new company logo for startup business, Facebook promo banner, fly Read more

Logo Design: Top 20 UK Logo Designers on DesignCrowd

DesignCrowd - Thursday, September 26, 2013

We Love Our UK Designers! The DesignCrowd designer community is a broad church that encompasses professional designers of every nationality from aroud the world. 140,000 designers. Fact! This week we're focusing on showcasing our top UK logo designers. Whilst we have thousands of UK designer who specialise in a wide range of design services, we want to highlight some Read more

Logo Competitions - 7 Logo Competition Tips For Designers

Jo Sabin - Thursday, August 8, 2013

Are you looking for a design job? Want to know how to win design contests? This article will help you! it includes 7 key tips to help you win any design competition you enter.  Read more

Meet 6 of the Best Up and Coming Graphic Designers on DesignCrowd!

DesignCrowd - Thursday, July 18, 2013

DesignCrowd is about to hit 130,000 freelance graphic designers. That's a huge milestone, right? Our designer rankings are chock-full of top designers, including super-star designers like PB who hit $300,000 in design contest winnings last month and top UK female designer, Inspiral, who is one of the site's most in-demand designers. Today we feature six new up and coming de Read more

Design Blogs - Top 100 Design Blogs

DesignCrowd - Friday, February 11, 2011

In this article, DesignCrowd designer Crystal Bernia reveals the Top 100 Design Blogs ranked by traffic and categorized by topic.The world wide web is constantly sprouting new design blogs.  Amazingly, some of the biggest websites in the world are now graphic design blogs. For example, the largest graphic design blog (Smashing Magazine) is on of the top 500 websites in the wo Read more

6 Unusual Crowdsourcing Projects

DesignCrowd - Tuesday, February 1, 2011

When you think of graphic design crowdsourcing (and projects suited to design crowdsourcing) you probably think of logo design and web design and online design contests. However, there is so much more you can do with design crowdsourcing that you may not have even thought of. Crowdsourcing allows you to be creative and inventive with your projects and not just the designs. Wh Read more

Grow your own virtual agency: bring new designers to DesignBay!

DesignCrowd - Monday, December 15, 2008

Bring new designers to DesignCrowd and get 1% of their earnings. Checkout why you should be submitting designs on DesignCrowd now! Read more

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