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What Makes Freelancers Tick, And How Can Your Company Work With Them?
A new report is shedding light on the people benefiting from the explosive growth of the freelance economy. Read more
Celebs on canvas: Graphic designers re-imagine Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and Justin Bieber as classic works of art
Designers from Australia, France, Ghana, Iran and all over the world have transformed classical portraits so that they feature modern-day celebrities. Read more
Crowdsource graphic, logo and web designs from designers around the world with Alec Lynch
Alec launched DesignCrowd in 2007 from his family home, and today DesignCrowd has over 500,000 designers and ~$20 million in revenues. Read more
People Photoshopped Pokémon INTO Popular Movies AND It's AWESOME
Just in case you needed more Pokémon in your life, here's SOME extra geeky fun that you actually won't mind seeing. People on DesignCrowd took the time to photoshop Pokémon characters into popular movies for a contest — and the results are pretty freaking awesome! Read more
Meet The $1m Man Who's Making A Killing FROM Freelancing
Anand Thangavel IS something OF a poster boy FOR the new wave IN freelance business, HAVING just hit the million dollar MARK IN earnings AFTER five years WITH DesignCrowd under the moniker PB. Read more
Why your restaurant needs a good logo
According to Jo Sabin, head of community at DesignCrowd, which crowdsources logo, graphic and web design jobs, businesses at all levels of the foodservice market should have a logo, and should put serious thought into what they want it to communicate. Read more
DesignCrowd founder doesn't do interviews (except for this one)
Alec Lynch is the founder of DesignCrowd, a marketplace that helps entrepreneurs and small businesses outsource graphic, logo and web design. Read more
ARE ANY OF These Instagram Logos Better Than the Actual Redesign?
OK, so we didn't like the new Instagram logo that much. But could you do any better? That's the challenge that DesignCrowd.com gave its community, AND submissions have been flooding IN FROM users. Obviously these ARE pretty quick sketches, FOR the most part - but do ANY OF them strike your fancy? Read more
What businesses can learn FROM Instagram's rebrand
Instagram's dramatic rebrand has FOUND lovers AND haters. Whatever your own personal VIEWS ON the colourful rainbow redesign ARE, it has certainly highlighted just how sensitive the market IS WHEN something familiar becomes a little more unfamiliar. Read more
DesignCrowd dominance highlights our marketplace hub
[DesignCrowd's CEO Alec] Lynch is recognised as a founder of the design crowdsourcing concept, where designers compete for posted jobs in an iterative exchange with the client, with the winner getting the commission but several runners-up rewarded for their input with cash prizes. Read more
How DesignCrowd Changed The Game By Cutting Out The Middle Man
Design market disrupter Alec Lynch is using technology to achieve even greater scale, after successfully turning his bedroom start-up into a global business. Read more
DesignCrowd extends global reach
Australian crowd-sourcing outfit DesignCrowd now boasts a half-million designers on its global platform, with company founder and chief executive Alec Lynch saying his eight-year-old company is on track to building the world’s largest creative design marketplaces. Read more
How the role of a founder develops over time
DesignCrowd founder Alec Lynch says the role of a startup founder changes drastically as a company grows and develops. Read more
Designers CREATE alternatives TO controversial Uber rebrand
Crowdsourcing SITE DesignCrowd has revealed the winner OF a contest TO find an alternative logo FOR taxi app Uber, AFTER the company unveiled a controversial rebrand earlier this MONTH. Read more
From lucky to plucky
Alec Lynch and Adam Arbolino launched DesignCrowd in Sydney eight years ago after an earlier startup failed. Undeterred, Mr Lynch saw a chance to change the “slow, risky and expensive” way people procure projects from local graphic designers. Read more