Toward a better business card: 5 unconventional tips
Eggshell or Bone background? Ebony type, or perhaps Pale Nimbus? For the boring business card designer, the possibilities are endless — so long as the card winds up being basically black on white (check out the link and you’ll get it). Outside the satirical world of “American Psycho,” however, good business card design means the …
Create a print-ready, cut out business card
In this tutorial, we will use InDesign to create a print-ready, cut out Business card. Although you can use other applications, Indesign does a great job for Print designs. Let’s get to it! Open up InDesign and create a New Document. Since we are designing a 2-sided Business card, we will enter 2 pages in the …
Top 9 at 99 results for November!
The community has spoken and the results are in! We would like to give a PAT ON THE BACK to adisign09 – winner of Top Designer honors for November and an iPod Nano with a watchband case. We love all of our Top 9 designers and want to give them a pat on the back as well: hattori adisign09 john x. …
The game is afoot! (a.k.a. what are points?)
Some of you may have noticed a new element in your profile over the past week and let me just say this – the game is on! We’ve added some great game features like points and levels to designer profiles to make being a 99designer better than ever.
Designer profile: fatboyjim
James Clark – Bromley, England, U.K. 99designs handle: fatboyjim Contests Won: 54 With an educational background in Design Marketing, James Clark has led a successful career in the field of graphic design for many years. Some of James’ experiences have even led him afar – a design competition that he won gave him a once-in-a-lifetime journey across the United …
99designs meetup in Serbia!
The first 99designs Meetup event happened last weekend and the turnout was AWESOME! Over 80 designers gathered together in Novi Sad, Serbia, to meet, greet and exchange ideas about design! We want to send out a SPECIAL THANK YOU to long time 99designer Ludibes for organizing this AMAZING event – you rule! Wondering what Meetups are? …
Top 9 at 99: November, 2011
November has passed which means Top 9 at 99 is here! We have chosen the top 9 designers that we thought had awesome wins from the following categories: Logo Design Web Design All other categories combined Now it’s your turn to vote for the designer you believe deserves the Top Designer honors. The designer voted Top Designer will win an …
UPDATE: staged contests – the remix!
We recently introduced a new Staged Contest model designed to save time for designers and contest holders and ultimately get the right people working together more quickly. We have been collecting feedback and taking a good hard look at the data to get a sense of how the new structure is working. So far so …
All design tips in tweets: December, 2011
Here are some awesome designer tips and resources that we recently shared via twitter@99designs. 100 (Really) Creative Business Cards 30 Tasty and Colorful Fruit-Inspired Logos 20 Excellent Dark Colored Websites to Inspire Designers 30 Sleek Fonts for your Minimalist Design Random Textures to Use in Your Designs How to Perfect a T-Shirt Design Top 15 Design Resources …
Designers’ New Year’s resolution for 2012
It’s the morning of January 1st and “Happy New Years” is still ringing in your ears from the previous night. Today is the day you will start your new year’s resolutions. Sure… last year you didn’t quite hit the gym weekly or, if you’re like me, finish “that big project” you’re so passionate about. Luckily… 99designs …
