If you are looking to have a new logo, business card, graphic or web site designed you know it is sometimes tough to decide where to get started. crowdSPRING, a Chicago-based crowd sourcing startup, might be a good option as it offers a marketplace for your design projects. Simply create a project and the design community will offer up suggested proposals. You can select the one you like the best and pay the designer a one time fee for the design you decide to choose.
This nimble rockstar team from Chicago (see photo below) has created an eye appealing site and experience. crowdSPRING reminds me of the TopCoder program which runs contests for design and development work but with crowdSPRING the marketplace is open to anyone to post contests for design projects.
crowdSPRING will be demoing at the upcoming TECH cocktail Chicago 8 on May 29, 2008.
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Frank,
Thanks for the nice write-up and compliments. We are very excited to take the cover off our site this week (we were in a closed beta for 9 weeks) and to finally join other Chicago technology companies! We invite everyone to come take a look.
Best,
Ross
Posted by: Ross | Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 11:53 PM
This should be a good measure of how many professional designers read this blog. Just count the number of outraged comments decrying the destruction of design vs. the number of glowing reviews from business drones.
I'm somewhere in the middle. It's destroying the industry, but the industry was dying anyway. So someone might as well make a few bucks selling drinks before the Titanic slips beneath the waves.
Posted by: J. Jeffryes | Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 12:04 AM
Is it just me or does that picture make them look like a dodgy rock band. haha
Posted by: Steven Finch | Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 06:58 AM