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4 Tips To Create Original Graphic Design Artwork

Jo Sabin - Monday, December 23, 2013

As a designer working on a design crowdsourcing platform, it's normal to seek design inspiration from different places: Pinterest, Behance, Dribble, hard copy books, magazines, music and even nature. An idea can be found where you least expect it! However, it is sometimes easy to confuse being inspired by a design versus copying a design and simply changing some of the elements. This article will explain the key difference between copying and inspiration in graphic design. Read more

Web Design: 15 Top Web Designers from Pakistan

Jo Sabin - Tuesday, October 29, 2013

The top 15 web designers from Pakistan combined earned over $60,000 through web design contest wins and participation payments. Based across the Pakistan, from Lahore to Mardan to Karachi, the country's capital, Pakistan's web designers are rising quickly up the DesignCrowd rankings.  Read more

Web Design: 20 Incredible Freelance Web Designers from India!

Jo Sabin - Thursday, October 17, 2013

Indian web designers dominate the top web designer rankings on DesignCrowd. We've hand-selected a few of our favorite and some new freelance designers and studios for this collection. In this show case you will see web design examples for consultancies, online shopping sites, handmade crafts, stock traders, football communities and furniture websites to name a few.  Read more

Packaging Design: 5 Awesome Aussie Freelance Packaging Designers

DesignCrowd - Thursday, October 17, 2013

Packaging design is ubiquituous. Just visit your local supermarket and you'll be bombarded with a million products shouting for your attention. Any company looking to launch a product on the market for consumers or busniess needs a professional packaging design to leave a great impression and prompt a p Read more

T-shirt Design: 5 Awesome West Coast T-Shirt Designers from the USA

Jo Sabin - Thursday, October 10, 2013

Company T-shirts Are Cool (again)Branded custom t-shirt design doesn't have to cost a fortune. If you want to promote your cool new startup or your a brand with a new product, custom t-shirt design can help you get your company up close and personal with your target market.Every startup worth its salt has company t-shirts. From the founders to the team, cool company t-shirts are gr Read more

New Bing Logo: 11 Crowdsourced Bing Logo Designs

Jo Sabin - Wednesday, October 9, 2013

In September Yahoo launched a new logo, Google's logo went flat, and Microsoft search engine, Bing, launched a new logo. At DesignCrowd we thought the Bing logo, with its searchlight theme and boxy geometric icon, was a smart move. The old logo was tired and Microsoft's new branding left the Bing logo looking like an outsider. The design community reaction to the new logo was mixed. So we launched a contest to see what alternative Bing logo designs were out there. 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

20 Brilliant Business Card Designers on DesignCrowd

Jo Sabin - Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Business cards still matter in the digital age because a business card is a key face to face networking tool. You might be wondering why you need a business card when you have a smartphone and you're on social media. Business cards are a personal tangible reminder of your interaction with another. This article showcases a range of business card designs from different industries. Read more

Design Politics: Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games Logo Contest

Jo Sabin - Monday, September 30, 2013

In this post, we will overview the sour events surrounding the Sochi Winter Olympics Games, explore the role of design in political communication and show case the best of our Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Logo Design Contest. The brief for this logo contest? To simply redesign the Sochi logo to better reflect Russia's new politics. Find out more! Read more

Logo design: Achieving Colour Consistency Across Web and Print

DesignCrowd - Thursday, September 26, 2013

This guest post was written by BigBlueCurrant, a talented graphic, web and logo designers on DesignCrowd. BigBlueCurrant is ranked #21 in the DesignCrowd global rankings. He was profiled on the DesignCrowd blog in 2012.Logo design: Achieving Colour Consistency Across Web and PrintThe logo is often the starting point when businesses decide to create/refresh their brand, and with that usua Read more

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