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If you’re one of the millions of Americans who filed a tax refund this year,  you’re no doubt pondering how to spend the absolutely massive refund due to land in your bank account. (Hey, we can all dream!) So we thought we’d offer some contest-inspired suggestions  for how best to part with all that extra cash. …

Guest contributor Dorit Magidor is the resident design geek at Website Planet. Developing a new website (or revamping your old one) means facing a series of important decisions. What should your website look like? What feeling should it convey? How will it stack up to the competition? It’s possible you have a business plan or …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We’re in good spirits this Valentine’s Day, having received a special Valentine’s gram (video below) from App Village, a client currently in the business of bear hugs. But the real recipient of this thank-you is Zaaviart, the designer in our community whose awesome illustration work won him the contest that App Village ran on our site. What they needed were …