Worth1000.com, a creative contest platform home to over 600,000 users, has joined DesignCrowd to create a bigger and better marketplace for freelance designers to find clients and earn income and where businesses can crowdsource graphic design from a worldwide design community.

From our humble beginnings in 2008, DesignCrowd’s mission has been to discover the most creative design ideas and designers in the world and we believe that combining our two design communities together will turbo-charge our marketplace towards this goal.

So, how can you - as a business with graphic design needs or designer or creative looking for work opportunities - benefit? Here are 6 big reasons to get on board!

Customers Can Find The Best Design in the World!

Creativity doesn’t reside in one place. With this acquisition, startups, entrepreneurs, big brands, small businesses, corporates, governments and NGOs can now reach more creative talent through DesignCrowd than if a person door-knocked on the every design agency in the USA, Australia and the UK combined. Fact.

Launch a design contest anytime and get more designers working on your brief than ever before!

Enjoy Faster and More Creative Design Services

DesignCrowd turns the traditional way of getting design done on its head. Our platform makes it faster to get the design you need – from logo design to business card design to website design, flyer design and more – from a worldwide community of over 350,000 freelance designers and design studios. It takes two minutes to describe your design requirements, then watch designs start pouring in after only a few hours, give feedback on designs you like and eliminate designs you don’t, pick your favorite and download the source files. Easier, cheaper, faster and more creative than the traditional design process.

How do logo design competitions and other design competitions work on DesignCrowd.

Post your project and SAVE $20 on design fees! Use the discount code W1000 or use this DesignCrowd Discount link.

Need advice for growing your business or tips for how to develop a company logo or a easy-follow guide to launching a crowdsourcing design project, check out our blog.

Agencies Love Us!

Agencies and design studios can leverage our platform to earn more money. Check out the benefits of white labelling DesignCrowd’s design platform and outsourcing design projects in busy periods. Find out how agency crowdsourcing can grow your business.

Designers: Get More Opportunities to Be Creative & Earn Money on DesignCrowd.

Freelance designers from around the world can sign up for free and start earning income. Right now there are over 1,100 design jobs open – that’s over $300,000 in designer project payments up for grabs!

Unlike other marketplaces, all contests on DesignCrowd are 'blind', meaning that participants cannot see each others' entries while the project is open. This prevents issues like group-think, resulting in more diverse creative options in any given contest. DesignCrowd has innovated on the traditional crowdsourcing model and used Participation Payments to reward designers who submit quality designs and to incentivize top designers to participate. It’s all about making the marketplace fairer and better place to find work.

Did you know? Freelance designers on DesignCrowd have earned over $18 million in project payments and uploaded nearly 4 million designs. Fact.

Designers: Showcase Your Creativity!

Work with Big Brands as co-creators on awesome projects! On DesignCrowd, you can work with Virgin and Amnesty and heaps of others. Check out these 10 Big Brands Crowdsourcing Design on DesignCrowd to see who we've worked with!

Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting out, you can find exciting contests that will challenge your creativity whilst having a tonne of fun! Keep an eye out for our fun and irreverent community contests! Popular recent contests include: Crowdsourcing Royal Baby name card design, 25 Famous Celebs Get a Hipster Makeover, Re-design Game of Thrones Banners for Famous Companies, and Photoshop Angry Ronaldo in Other Scenes – think World Cup photo memes... plus many more.

You'll get a digest of the freshest community contests delivered to your inbox on a regular basis.

Worth1000 Showcase

Awesome Photoshop Design Contests - Enter Now

Love a bit of digital mischief? Then check out these new Photoshop Design Contests and share in $2065 in prize money sponsored by DesignCrowd:

#1. 4 x FIFA World Cup Photoshop Design Contests

$1150 in cash prizes...

We've caught 2014 FIFA World Cup fever and launched four awesome / hilarious photoshop design contests! You're invited to showoff your photoshop skills, sense of humour and creativity to the following contests. Deadlines to submit are closing fast, so enter today for your chance to share in $1150 in cash prizes. Enter now and have fun with these design contests!

#2. Redesign/Remix Your Fave Iconic/Famous Album Cover Design Contest

Designers, you're invited to put a new and creative spin on the world's best selling album covers!
Certain albums have cover art that become just as iconic as the top singles fans know by heart. From The Beatles’ Abbey Road to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon to Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run, iconic album covers are easily identifiable and define a timeless record.

View Brief and Enter Contest Now: Redesign Iconic Album Covers

Win: $425 // Deadline: Saturday June 21

#3. Photoshop Famous Females as Orange Is the New Black Inmates Design Contest

As people all over the world binge-watch the second season of the hit Netflix show Orange Is the New Black (#OITNB), we have to wonder what famous female groups would look like as inmates. DesignCrowd wants you to reimagine famous groups of women as prisoners at Litchfield. View Brief and Enter Contest Now: Photoshop Famous Females as Orange Is the New Black Inmates

Win: $490 // Deadline: Saturday June 21

Designers: Build Your Portfolio and Learn

If you’re just starting out or you're up and coming, check out the DesignCrowd blog for design and business inspiration including visual roundups like the best flat logo designs and 2014 color trends as well as the business end of design crowdosurcing for designers like 7 logo competition tips for designers to help you to learn how to win more design contests.

Get a piece of the action! If you’re looking for design jobs than sign up today! Check out the latest design jobs open now!

Tell Us What You Want!

We'll be posting more updates soon so keep an eye on the blog for upcoming announcements. Worth1000 designers, creatives and customers new to the marketplace, you are invited to send us your questions, provide feedback on using DesignCrowd and share new ideas to improve the marketplace by leaving a comment or email us on info(at)designcrowd(dot)com.

Written by Jo Sabin on Wednesday, June 18, 2014

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.