Customer Blog

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 …

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 …

99designs is celebrating another big milestone today: the launch of Spanish-language versions of our site in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain, as well as a site for Spanish-speakers in the U.S. ¡Olé! This means we’re not only continuing our expansion in Europe — in the last six months we’ve launched sites in German, French and Italian — but embarking …

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick may be gearing up for his first Super Bowl appearance this weekend, but behind the scenes another new venture of his is taking place here at 99designs. Colin will soon have a new design for his website Kaepernick7.com courtesy of the winning designer in a contest run on his behalf by custom web development …

Announcing the participants in 99designs ♥ French Startups (Retrouvez ce post en version française un peu plus bas!) In November (51 days ago, to be precise!), we launched 99designs.fr for our French-speaking customers and designers. To mark this milestone and celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit sweeping France, we invited French startups to apply for one of nine free design …

99designs is starting out 2013 with a bang – or should we say 99designs sta cominciando 2013 con il botto!? Today we launched 99designs.it, our Italian-language site. Italian customers and designers can now participate in design contests and communicate with our support teams in Italian. Siamo molto eccitati! 99designs’ focus on international expansion will be …