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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 …

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 …

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 …

In our continuous quest for fun and timely blog post topics, we recently came across the little-known fact that October is Squirrel Awareness Month. And it appears some people actually do celebrate it, including members of The Squirrel Lover’s Club (who receive the organization’s aptly named “In a Nutshell” newsletter). And then, just today, The …

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 …

99nonprofits is gaining momentum and, this week, we’re proud to announce our next group of participants! With 105 applications submitted to date, choosing from so many deserving organizations was no easy task! We’re thrilled to be working with these organizations and to help further their missions to make a positive impact. Take a few moments …

In the span of a stunningly short period of time, the role of social media pages has morphed from a supplementary marketing tool to a must-have for any business endeavor. Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn have become essential ways for businesses looking to build, support and actively engage their target audiences. And while it used to …

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 …

If you’re currently enjoying the final weeks of summer like those of us in our San Francisco office, you know what’s right around the corner: a new school year! What better time to show off some of the cool logo designs, web page designs and illustrations schools around the world have sourced through 99designs? Selecting …

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 …