Customer Blog

Love at first sight does happen at 99designs.  Garden Dish immediately fell in love with binaryrows‘ design at the first sight of its earthy and organic elements. Garden Dish is a small business dedicated to giving inspiration, guidance and support to vegan cooks, food gardeners, and anyone interested in plant-based cuisines.  Binaryrows brought Garden Dish’s …

Did you have a favorite teacher when you were in school? For me, it was my third grade teacher, who introduced me to some of my favorite books and served as both mentor and inspiration to a very enthusiastic and rambunctious 8-year old.  When you think about it, it’s amazing how just one person can …

In a world that tends to organize its visual real estate according to the Times Square model – cramming as many lines, colors and textures as possible into a given space – sometimes a feeling of clean spaciousness is the most outstanding attribute your design could have. In other words, what your design is may …

Our San Francisco office (the rest of our team are in Melbourne and London) is participating in a unique challenge May 17th, and we thought you just might want to know about it! The first-ever Startup Pushup Charity Challenge pits 99designs against four other great Bay Area startups (Udemy, Zaarly, HotelTonight and GitHub) in a …

If you’ve ever thought about taking the skills you’ve acquired working for other companies, identifying a niche or target market you’re passionate about, and striking out on your own, you have something in common with Yolanda Russell. Yolanda is the founder of Australian executive recruitment firm Brighten Recruitment, which is dedicated to linking talented individuals with businesses focused …

For contest holders who haven’t quite pinned down what design elements they’re seeking in a design – “I’ll know it when I see it!” is a refrain we often hear – a good starting point is to simply describe what your company does and what you hope to communicate. After all, as with solving any problem, …

From time to time, we like to share company news and insights with our customers. After all, we’re always eager to learn more about you, so we figured perhaps you’d like to know 99designs a bit better, too. Here are the some of the  latest highlights: Announcing our first-ever 99designs Homepage Redesign Contest! We launched a …

Spring has sprung, and what better time is there to celebrate Mother Nature than Earth Day? Sunday marks the 42nd celebration of Earth Day, an international day dedicated to the environmental movement and pushing forward critical environmental issues to political leaders for reform. Earth Day was founded on April 22, 1970 by Gaylord Nelson, a …

“Don’t judge a book by its cover!” That’s what my mother always used say when I headed into a new situation filled with people I didn’t know. And she’s right – when it comes to people, first impressions are often misleading. But when it comes to actual books, adhering to my mom’s advice is a …

Sydney writer Aenghus Chisholme had no problem penning a 350-page book about  the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, from the passionate love affairs to the murderous overlords to the sorcery and swordfights. But there was one page of his first published work of fiction, “AD 491: Merlin the Sorcerer,” that required …