Customer Blog

With the New Year just around the corner, we know a lot of not-for-profit organizations are thinking of priorities – and budgets – for 2013. If a new logo, website  or graphic design work for an upcoming event or campaign is on the to-do list, “free” likely sounds pretty good! Which is why we’re so excited …

  Today marks another milestone for 99designs: the launch of 99designs.fr, our French-language site. You may recall that in September we launched a German version of 99designs at 99designs.de. We’ve since seen great momentum in the German-language market, underscoring how important it is for us to offer truly localized experiences as we continue to expand …

Here at 99designs, we know the designer-client relationship can be fraught with challenges — after all, with 175,000 graphic design projects completed on our site and more than 190,000 graphic designers working in our community, we’ve seen first-hand the trials and tribulations both sides deal with in this delicate working relationship. Often times these communication challenges can be traced …

Some cool design news: an Ontario, Canada-based company called Radix Inc. is featured tonight on the Canadian reality program “The Big Decision,” in which a big-time investor will decide if he wants to help take Radix to the next level. As part of Radix’s rebranding process, the long-established manufacturing tech company sourced a new logo …

Our pals over at San Francisco startup Scripted, an online marketplace connecting freelance writers with small businesses, asked us to pen a guest post about branding for the company’s corporate blog. It was published there earlier this week, and we thought we’d share it with our own customers, too! Read on for some good insights into why branding is …

As a business owner, figuring out how best to convey your brand in a single image is often no easy feat. If you’ve taken advantage of 99designs’ popular polling feature when running a contest, you may have been surprised by the feedback from your friends and colleagues. We often hear from customers that the design …

The debut of 99designs.de, our first localized-language site Today marks a milestone for 99designs – the launch of the first non-English version of our site at 99designs.de! From this day forward, wir sprechen Deutsch. (That means “we speak German,” for those of you who don’t. If you do, you may want to just skip down …

99designs has reached some major milestones since our 2008 launch, from winning the People’s Voice Webby in 2010 to successfully launching more than 155,000 contests to date. We owe our success to our remarkable community – we wouldn’t be where we are without your help! Our community of contest holders and designers is what powers …

99nonprofits, 99designs’ new initiative to provide free graphic design contests for nonprofit organizations, is off to an excellent start! We’ll be choosing a number of nonprofit organizations each month to participate, and selecting our August group proved to be quite a challenge. We were utterly blown away by the wonderful work being carried out by …

Hello 99designs community! Today is a big day for 99designs. We’re excited to announce our first ever acquisition and with it our new European headquarters! Berlin-based 12designer the leading creative design marketplace in Germany, is now part of the 99designs family. The acquisition is an important step forward in our mission to deliver the best platform …