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T-shirts. It’d be tough to find someone who doesn’t own one, and their universal appeal serves a wide range of purposes and audiences. They can be amazing works of art, a corporate uniform, a canvas for advertising, a souvenir, or a personal and political statement. Similarly, people turn on 99designs to get t-shirts designed for …

Update: We’re pleased to announce the winner of our design contest giveaway! We’d like to thank everyone who applied – it’s great to see so many awesome fitness-related businesses out there and it definitely made for a tough decision. Kellie Davis from Get Glutes is going home with the prize and will soon launch a …

A logo design has at most two components: there’s the text and there’s the symbol. While most designs keep the two separate, designers love to combine them when possible. Harnessing the biomorphic nature of letter forms or the negative space they create to craft something symbolic, a la FedEx or Tour de France, is a …

There’s a lot of talk surrounding “lean startups” these days (in fact, we wrote about a lean startup related contest earlier this week). But perhaps the subset “dorm room startup” warrants some buzz of its own. Jeff Steitz, a rising senior at Claremont McKenna College, and his five undergraduate friends-cum-entrepreneurs did not have much in …

While the term “infographic” still gets flagged in some spell-check programs (including 99designs’ own blogging platform!), there’s no doubt infographics have gone mainstream. Gone are the days when a mere bar graph or pie chart satisfied our urge to better understand a particular phenomena – graphic designers can now leverage new technology, media platforms and …

Chances are you’ve heard of the book “The Purpose Drive Life” by Rick Warren, an influential Christian pastor who founded Saddleback Valley Community Church in Southern California, a megachurch attended by 20,000 people weekly. The tome has sold well over 30 million copies in more than 50 languages worldwide since its publication in 1992. With …

A great logo quivers on the page. Its component parts at once complement and contrast, creating a slight tension that makes the whole look as though it is about to leap right off the screen. The key to achieving this effect is good composition, and as with all things that appeal to our senses, this …

Few designs flop harder than ones that attempt to be playful, but end up reading like a still life. Avoid this. If you’re looking for a logo on the fun/playful side of the spectrum, you must insist on a sense of dynamism – movement, action, “pop” (just keep this last word out of your brief; …

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 …

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 …