Customer Blog

Online shopping can be a hassle and a pretty significant time-suck – and if anyone sympathizes, it’s 99designs customer Kassie Rempel, founder of Kassie’s Closet. Kassie’s Closet (or “The Closet,” as Kassie refers to it) is dedicated to making women’s experience shopping online for clothes and accessories easier and more fun. 99designs spoke to Kassie …

Few designs flop harder than ones that attempt to be playful, but end up reading like a still life. Avoid this. If you’re looking for a logo on the fun/playful side of the spectrum, you must insist on a sense of dynamism – movement, action, “pop” (just keep this last word out of your brief; …

On May 17th, 99designs triumphed in the first-ever Pushup Charity Challenge! 99designs is big on giving back. We love hosting contests for not-for-profit organizations, and supporting them, and so were thrilled when the folks at fellow San Francisco startup Udemy invited us to participate in a charity event they were organizing. Along with Udemy, HotelTonight, Zaarly and GitHub, we took part in the …

Love at first sight does happen at 99designs.  Garden Dish immediately fell in love with binaryrows‘ design at the first sight of its earthy and organic elements. Garden Dish is a small business dedicated to giving inspiration, guidance and support to vegan cooks, food gardeners, and anyone interested in plant-based cuisines.  Binaryrows brought Garden Dish’s …

Did you have a favorite teacher when you were in school? For me, it was my third grade teacher, who introduced me to some of my favorite books and served as both mentor and inspiration to a very enthusiastic and rambunctious 8-year old.  When you think about it, it’s amazing how just one person can …

In a world that tends to organize its visual real estate according to the Times Square model – cramming as many lines, colors and textures as possible into a given space – sometimes a feeling of clean spaciousness is the most outstanding attribute your design could have. In other words, what your design is may …

Our San Francisco office (the rest of our team are in Melbourne and London) is participating in a unique challenge May 17th, and we thought you just might want to know about it! The first-ever Startup Pushup Charity Challenge pits 99designs against four other great Bay Area startups (Udemy, Zaarly, HotelTonight and GitHub) in a …

If you’ve ever thought about taking the skills you’ve acquired working for other companies, identifying a niche or target market you’re passionate about, and striking out on your own, you have something in common with Yolanda Russell. Yolanda is the founder of Australian executive recruitment firm Brighten Recruitment, which is dedicated to linking talented individuals with businesses focused …

For contest holders who haven’t quite pinned down what design elements they’re seeking in a design – “I’ll know it when I see it!” is a refrain we often hear – a good starting point is to simply describe what your company does and what you hope to communicate. After all, as with solving any problem, …

From time to time, we like to share company news and insights with our customers. After all, we’re always eager to learn more about you, so we figured perhaps you’d like to know 99designs a bit better, too. Here are the some of the  latest highlights: Announcing our first-ever 99designs Homepage Redesign Contest! We launched a …