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It’s been a busy time for 99nonprofits - we welcomed 30 new organizations into the pro bono program in the first four months of the year, including 15 in March and April. This month’s charities embody 99designs’ international outlook, carrying out great community work in Italy, Russia, Thailand, Germany, South Korea, Puerto Rico, Canada, Australia and …

What does 99designs have in common with one of Australia’s most esteemed nonprofits, an edgy-hip clothing retailer, an organization supporting urban art and a priest with a terrific sense of humor? We’ve all come together to raise funds for Yooralla, which has been helping Australians with disability live independent and fulfilling lives since 1918. For its third annual …

To celebrate the launch of 99designs.it earlier this year, we teamed up with leading Italian entrepreneurial platform Startupbusiness to give away free graphic design contests to promising startups. We’d like to thank all the fantastic entrepreneurs who applied – such an inspiring and innovative group! And we think you’ll be as impressed by the startups we selected as we …

99designs President and CEO Patrick Llewellyn is in Amsterdam this week to kick off the launch of our Dutch-language site at 99designs.nl and give a pair of talks at The Next Web Europe 2013. Check out the videos below to hear him discuss the ins and outs of 99designs and our approach to  internationalization. Then …

Update: Head over to our Designer Blog to check out the winner and runners up of our “Design a Business Card Fit for the King” contest.  A customer in the Netherlands launched a design contest during 99designs’ very first week in business five years ago, so it’s no exaggeration to say the country has always been one of …

This blog post about a fun contest we just launched for our design community originally ran on our Designer Blog. After several staffers pointed out that some of our customers are likely to be as huge fans as Daft Punk as we are, we thought we’d share it with you. We expect quite a few …

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 …

Spring has sprung in our San Francisco headquarters, and with it has come 99designs’ new lucky number: 200. We recently surpassed 200,000 graphic designers in our global community, hosted our 200,000 design contest for customers, and received our 200th application for our 99nonprofits program. It’s clear there are many not-for-profit organizations in need of design work, and we’re …

99designs’ offices around the world celebrated our 5th anniversary this week, and at last night’s party in San Francisco we had a special guest: CBS/KPIX News. The resulting story, which explored the Bay Area’s booming small biz economy, features 99designs customer SF Kids Consignment along with our CEO Patrick Llewellyn. (SF Kids Consignment was included …

We hosted our 200,000th contest today! It goes without saying that 99designs never could have reached this milestone in five short years without all of the fantastic entrepreneurs, businesses and other organizations around the world who came to us to connect with members of our remarkable design community. (Incidentally, we recently surpassed 200,000 designers in …