99designs

99Designs is a great interface to work through for reviewing entries during the contest. The idea of having designers all over the world submit their takes on your brief is such a great idea and results in a high end final product. It was an exciting few days as I rated designs and sent messages back and forth. Be careful of giving a design four or five stars too early on. What can happen is less innovative designers rip off a design that got 5 stars with their own take. This results in numerous submissions that are similar instead of continuing the variety of submissions. Message designers you like directly to work with them on edits versus always giving them 5 stars and then publicly messaging the comments. It was an action packed few days and I couldn't be happier with the ending design.

I was almost scared off by all the negative reviews, but I had the most amazing experience! "KCRS" (screen name) was my designer and provided not only a 5 star logo design, but provided it in multiple different formats, sizes, with text, without text... etc. I highly recommend this sight to anyone who can not afford thousands of dollars for a design company. It was the best $300 I've spent.

I had the account for 3 years, but didn't login, last week I submitted 2 logos and both of them are in the final round (with 5 stars from clients), today I couldn't login and got a mail with: "The current quality of your work does not fit our site standards. As a result, we have put your account on hold."

Staff use racist and homophobic insults when dealing with disputes. Truly a disgraceful business

Upon doing a one to one project, the work was so bad it could have been done by a child. Had to laugh it was so bad otherwise the only option is to cry.

There is no way out then, even if the work is bad. You have to pay those disgusting sums of money for work that a toddler could do better.

A scam of a company with a disgusting attitude

This has to be the coolest logo design platform by far. It was absolutely seamless and the designs that were being submitted were so cool it was hard to just pick one. I viewed hundreds of designs from designers all over the world and managed to pick a design from someone I would of never connected with had it not been for this company. 5 stars!

I've used 99designs a couple of times to source designs for ebook covers. The creativity of designers is sometimes hit and miss, but it's always fantastic to get a wide range of designs, and it's great to be surprised when a creative designer comes up with something fantastic that I hadn't even thought possible. I plan to use 99 designs for all my future projects. Ideally, one has a good working relationship with a fantastic and creative designer that understands your needs - but, that's sometimes hard to find. When you don't have someone like that in your network, 99designs fills the role spectacularly.

By suspending accounts and not offering a different way to participate to improve, is not very encouraging of designers to want to come back and participate.

Funny how I was in the running to win one contest, and received very good feedback from another and now somehow after 2 years, the quality of my work is what? Bahahahaha

With sites like designhill, designcrowd, there is a whole world where I would rather participate and I do and make money.

Don't bother with 99designs, not like they pay benefits or support people working.

I used 99designs.com for their basic logo package. It was fun and fascinating to see my vision come to life from the designers perspective and then work together to create a professional finished product. With respect to the logo project, I consider the 99designs process the best overall value on the market.

99designs is such a fantastic site! You get so many wonderfully diverse designs to choose from (artists from around the world!), the interface is very user-friendly, the designers are easy to work with -- even with tight timelines. I definitely plan on using this resource every time I need graphic design work. Thumbs way up!

I am a designer that focuses on Book Covers. What I have learned since joining, is to choose your contests wisely and try to be original. The experience has given me more tools to be a better designer. The support team has been great, and sometimes it may take time to get a response, but it all depends on the situation. Choose wisely, be original, think outside the box, do not copy anyone and you will find a more lively and enjoyable experience. I am 100% happy with my decision to join 99designs. I am a better designer for it!

This site screwed me over as a designer. A few years ago I entered a contest and after multiple (and I DO mean multiple) revisions, emails, messages from the client (I'm telling you, I lost track of the time I had stuck into this logo - I mean, the guy was SO demanding, he had me nearly in tears a couple of times), I was told I was going to be chosen as the winner. The time came for the contest to end and lo and behold, I was not chosen as the winner. Ok, that was a waste of time, but no big deal, right? Wrong. Come to find out, the company used my logo anyway! They saved my design, created a vector version of it (something any designer could do) and used it. It was on their website, on their clothing. It was their whole identity! I contacted 99designs about this problem and they basically told me, "Suck it up buttercup. There's nothing we can do!" Never again will I work with 99designs.

I pulled my contest after the CSR's response to my questions started to give me heartburn. I noticed the use of "already" at least four times in one comment (e.g.'" if the contest is completed already, and you have issues already, Jimdo would handle that already."). This bothered me... my questions at this stage were not confidently answered and CSR had to check for answers to basic questions (e.g. Do you provide support for back-end issues on the website). I think I'll just go with a basic site and look for a private designer.

I really was enjoying the whole process, until all the hard work was done and I had a poll set up and emailed to all my people, that one of the logos was taken down because it was a stock photo. So basically out of 6 designs on poll one was off thats 15% of my creativity and all the days work put in to it was waste. I am glad it was detected but it seriously affected my logo selection process. Also I was not offered any compensation apart from thats I can select a new design. How in the world thats an option when I have submitted the poll by email, thats extremely embarrassing. As a small scale start up business I felt this was great option, but I felt let down. The designer who won and all the designers who submitted were great but one bad apple spoilt the taste and the nature of this experience.

I was really floored by the spread of different designs I received, and was able to cut this down to a few quality pieces of work. The designers were great about quickly responding to refinement requests, and delivered a final cover design I'm very happy with.

99Designs is different from other similar sites in that the set up is better for both client and designer. Designers get an opportunity to hone their skills by learning from others and the client gets to choose from hundreds of designs. The system is efficient and from what I have experienced, very well run.
I would love to be able to enter more contests, but at the same time understand that it is just another way in which 99Designs ensures that the contests I enter are selected wisely and with my skillset in mind and that I am going to do my best work for each and every one. Keep it up!

I was pretty happy with the design I got and with the phone support from 99Design when I needed guidance dealing with my chosen designer.
I won't give a 5 stars because some of the designs submitted were pretty average and amateurish, no effort put in at all and some of them didn't understand the brief.
I have raised this with 99Design on my final review. Maybe they need to a better screening process for the designers
But overall I got a great design and working again through 99Design on a new project with my designer.

I make top quality designs I have been deigning for over 10 years and they tell me my work isn't quality when Im approved on shutterstock, istock, upwork and fiverr. Not only that but the actual customers always rated my work 4 to 5 stars out of 5 so they loved my designs. The last design I made, made it to the final round and won, Then my account got suspended for poor quality. I never got payed or got recognition I contacted the customer who bought my design I have proof of all this and I am looking into bringing in a lawsuit $$$

I picked a bronze branding package (with the £75 extras pack), and was over the moon to receive over 360 designs! Our whole team had fun voting on which they liked best. The designers couldn't do enough for you, and were happy to do anything from a tweak to a complete makeover based on our requests. All in all, a fun process that has enabled our company to come away with an exceptional new brand and logo design.

Very easy process in setting up a contest for designers to bid on my word mark. After leaving a descriptive brief, I had designers coming in with very creative designs. I had only expected 30-40 designs, but in the end there were 109 designs. The last 50 were adjustments with 4 designers. Awarded two designers. Very happy with the results!

I ended up with a couple of designs I liked, and my friends weren't much help since they split between the same ones. In the end I got something I'm happy with and have now plastered all over social media, replacing the generic design I had before. I didn't give the artists much to work with but they still managed to turn out some nice designs. My only regret is that the "losing" finalists don't end up with any money at all.

Book artomatic for ANY JOB, you will not be disappointed, a true prodigy! He listened to my brief and I barely had to make any changes. (which is insane because I can always find stuff) I only asked him to add a few special symbols to incorporate into the design which he did subtly and beautifully, barely any revisions! Book him! Artomatic!

I'm a designer with 99designs. Recently I entered a contest and submitted a design, very simple and focused on the brief. The client was pleased with it and rated it 4 stars (out of 5). Then many participants started copying my design with very slight tweaking. I brought this to the clients notice pointing out that I was the first to come up with that particular concept and my design is being copied. The client reassured me and said he'd keep that in mind.
To my horror, in the end he awarded the prize money to a designer who had copied my design almost 99% (guess that's why they call it 99designs).
Also repeated mails to 99designs to intervene yielded no result. Zilch!

Someone serious about starting a business will do research and look to a professional designer that they feel is worthy of the task of creating the face of their baby.

Brands aren't just about logos. If you don't know this, you're not ready to start a business. Brands are about how a company makes the customer feel, their experience and feelings towards the brand, knowing they cut corners and contributed to screwing over the design industry will definitely leave a bad taste in my mouth...