Featured at Webciety 2009: DesignBay
DesignBay is a crowdsourcing marketplace for logo design, web design and graphic design. DesignBay helps businesses get 25 to 100+ designs from designers around the world. Its mission is to give designers opportunities and to provide businesses with risk-free creativity.
Benefits of using DesignBay
For businesses, DesignBay allows you to:
- Get better designs - Get 25 to 100+ designs instead of 5 or 6. Eliminate group think and, literally, get the world working on your design.
- Eliminate risk from the creative process - Never tie yourself to an one designer or studio and get burnt when they don't deliver. Only buy your favourite design.
- Save time - Get first designs overnight and eliminate time spent contacting different studios and selecting your favourite one.
- Save money - Access freelance, work-from-home designers, offshore designers and talented student designers.
For designers, DesignBay helps you:
- Earn more money - Find freelance work, new clients and enter design contests.
- Work on what you want to - If you have a passion for logo design - fine! If brochure design is your thing - that's cool! DesignBay helps you pursue your passion.
- Build your portfolio - Add designs for real clients to your portfolio and use this to win more clients and further your career / business.
- Utilise your spare time - Find open contests and immediately submit designs. DesignBay is perfect when a studio / designer has no work.
- Work when you want - DesignBay is flexible and lets you work when you want, as much as you want.
How it works
Businesses can use DesignBay to run Design Contests or Multi Quotes Project.
Here's how Design Contests work:
- Post a contest including your requirements and your budget
- Watch as 25 to 100+ designs pour in from scores of designers around the world
- Select your favourite design and release your payment to the designer
Design Contests get you tons of ideas. They are perfect for jobs where you need ideas and creativity.
Here's how Multi Quote works:
- Post a multi quote project describing your requirements the design work
- Get 5+ quotes from competing designers around the world
- Select the best / cheapest quote and the designer will start work
- Manage and pay the designer to complete the work through designer
Multi Quotes help you save money. They are perfect for very simple jobs (like a getting a vector file of your name) or very complex jobs (like a 20 page website).
Who is using DesignBay
Major brands (including Shell Oil and HI-TEC shoes) are using DesignBay. HI-TEC shoes recently used DesignBay to redesign the icons of some of its largest shoes. After using DesignBay to create designs for 30 shoes icons, HI-TEC's Global Head of Marketing and Product, Duncan Patmore, said “Crowdsourcing is a brilliant way to pick the creative brains of a global design team and home in on a solution that is right for you". Thousands of start-ups and businesses from around the world have used DesignBay for their logos, websites and marketing materials. Scores of printing companies, busy design studios and web design companies are using DesignBay as their virtual design team.
Hundreds of designers and studios (from New York to New Delhi, from Melbourne to Mongolia) are using DesignBay's website. DesignBay has some of the highest profile design studios in the world (like TheNetMenCorp from Argentina). Designers like DesignBay because it offers extra protection for their work (through watermarks, guaranteed payments) as well as an alternative to design contests (the Multi Quote system).
Services
Next time you need a design, consider crowdsourcing it through DesignBay.
