If you are a Designer or Developer then it is very important that you should get full reward and recognition of your hard work. If you have a really great designing skills then this post is just for you.
Take a look at this collection of some most popular web design contests which are totally free for web designers and developers.
Here you can unhide your creative skills and get good reward for that. Although some of these sites offers lifetime work contract if you prove yourself.
I would like to give one personal advice to all of you before entering any contest that don't copy any design idea, otherwise you would be out of the contest.
1. 99 Designs
99designs is a disruptive startup which connects passionate designers from around the globe with savvy clients who need design projects completed in a timely fashion without the usual risk or cost associated with professional design.
2. Sitemasher
Sitemasher is inviting design students and design industry professionals to enter the Sitemasher 2009 Website Design Contest. Build websites on Sitemasher and become a future Masher!
3. Design Contest
Design Contest is a community shaped by the joint efforts of talented designers and contest holders. By hosting a design contest with us, contest holders are able to choose from a variety of great designs created by talented, professional designers.
4. Freshly Squeezed - Web Design Challenge
Help city kids, put $5k in your pocket and get your work seen. Submit your designs for new and improved website for J.U.i.C.E., a non-profit hip-hop art programme of LA's urban youth, and you'll be entered to win Five Grand, courtesy of SCION.
5. DesignBay
DesignBay is a graphic design marketplace with 928 design studios and freelancers from Australia, the US and India for logo design, web design and almost any other type of graphic design you can think of.
Businesses/people that need a designs can use DesignBay to run a Design Contest and get the best design possible or Request Quotes to save money.
Any designer or studio is welcome to quote or submit their designs.
6. Open Web Design
The Open Web Design project was founded in November 2005 by Aaron "MonkeyMan" Nikula as a resource for users with no design skills to quickly put up a site and showcase their content and as a way for designers to share their designs and showcase their talent.
7. LogoContest
LogoContest is place for Designers and Contest Holders. Here you'll See hundreds of designs by large community of talented logo designers.
Currently 1,426 logo designers have entered 32,055 designs into 530 contests.
8. Branding Contest
BrandingContest.com offers a place to display design skills, meet the needs of clients, and interact with other members. They're more interested in what you can do than what you can potentially earn - although earning an income from your designs is something we would like to see happen as well!
9. Graphic Competitions
Francesco Natali, runs the Graphic Competitions website. He is also the founder of the Scoopark website and Jobforweb website. Graphic Cometitions offers various contest right from logo design to web design.
10. Need4Design
This place is for Designers and Contest Holders. This site has launched recently so you'll not find any contest right now. But don't worry they will come-up with big bang. need4design.com is currently running a beta version of its services.
Do you have any suggestions? Leave your comment.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
10 Great Contest Sites for Web Designers & Developers
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8 comments:
Aren't those logocontest websites and 99designs notorious for having stolen designs entered into their website? I'm not sure I'd want to support a site that encourages cheap knock-offs of other peoples work. I would steer clear of those and if you are serious about your work, I would steer clear of submitting anything to them.
I want to comment to Heather's response above.
There are some credible companies out there that do offer contests who are genuine and do not exploit the applicants work.
Some will encourage students and professionals to show their work and not create something for the heck not it(usually by submitting a site or logo they have done for a client). Contests are also a great way to get the word out about yourself, and your services/skills(and possibly get leads for a contract in the future). It is a win win solution.
I am speaking personally for Sitemasher, that is.
cheers
Shannon@sitemasher
Thanks for this nice post.
And btw., next time link thumbnails to their corresponding destination.
Sorry but 99designs is not for "savvy" clients--it's for people who want something dirt cheap and don't wish to pay for professionals who will actually collaborate with them to achieve their marketing/communication objectives. The true "risk" is not from paying a professional, it is from entrusting your company's brand to a contest of desperate, inexperienced people who can maybe make a pretty picture but are not going to be strategic business partners with you, which is what PROFESSIONAL designers are.
Pleae call a pig a pig, not try to turn it into a thoroughbred horse.
Thanks for acknowledging DesignBay!
Web designers can also use DesignBay to submit quotes and find new clients. We have a lot of web design customers who are simply requesting quotes via DesignBay.
Designers: come join DesignBay - it's free!
Your blog is very nice... i like your blog ....
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I belive www.crowdspring.com to be a cut abve the rest when it comes to design contests.
Business organizations have to realize the fact that many people just click away to some other website, because the website they are looking at is not professional looking or is not interesting enough. Only a well designed website can serve the purpose of its existence.
Once the website is designed up to the mark, then comes the role of SEO because a well designed website won’t serve it’s purpose until and unless it has a good search ranking. Globally India is the most sort after for such solutions. There are many companies in India that provide solutions for web designing ecommerce and website seo development and in their race of being the best Virtual Studio is leading the way.
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