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Happy Australia Day, Share A Virtual Gift With Your Mates!

DesignCrowd - Friday, January 27, 2012

To continue the Australia Day celebrations this weekend, we've created some shareable little Aussie icons you can send to your mates.To shout your mate a virtual beer or a lamb chop your item just click the icon and "like" or "send" the icon to a mate. Happy Australia Day, Beer-Lover! Baa Baa,  Read more

50 Startup Logos from 2011

Jo Sabin - Monday, January 9, 2012

The startup / tech-scene boomed in 2011, wavered somewhat and then soldiered on. Tech businesses weathered natural disasters, GFC "2" and, sadly, the passing of Steve Jobs. Despite this, Groupon and LinkedIn IPO'd, Quora got popular, Google launched Google+ and people developed "Group Buying Fatigue". In summary, while in 2011 we witnessed some sobering tech developments / news Read more

Top 20 Google Logos of 2011

DesignCrowd - Monday, November 28, 2011

Anyone who has the Internet has used Google and anyone that's used the Google more than once has probably noticed that Google's logo changes from time to time.  This is part of Google's Doodle4Google program which aims to make searching on the Internet more fun.In 2011, Google has already had 231 different Google logos on their various homepages around the world!  Naturally, people will use their  Read more

20 Rugby World Cup Posters Over the Years

DesignCrowd - Tuesday, October 11, 2011

With the Rugby Union World Cup currently underway in New Zealand, we thought there is no better time to look back at some of the top Rugby World Cup poster designs from over the years. We take a look at some of the most famous posters, from the historic 1987 rugby world cup wallcharts to some of the modern day rugby posters featuring the Web Ellis cup.  2011 - The PresentRugby World Cup Read more

30 Logos from New Zealand Companies & Organizations

DesignCrowd - Tuesday, October 11, 2011

New Zealand is a place that puts a huge amount of value in national symbols. The silver fern is the most prominent among these - as you'll see in this roundup, Kiwis find many ways to work the fern into their logographs, from the straight-up implementation in the All Blacks logo to the clever integration of grapes and fern in the New Zealand Wine logo. Others play on symbols of the Maori, the indi Read more

10 of the Best Crowdsourced Logos from August

DesignCrowd - Monday, September 12, 2011

Our top logo designers are constantly churning out creative logos (via our crowdsourcing process). Here are some of the best from August 2011:Raw Studio by GohdezignShakr by HellorexIsland Power by Big Blue CurrantRecipes by Clément NicolleGlider Systems by BluejetANNIEE by HellorexHound Habit by Jace DesignCornville Mission by BluejetSmile Social by HnwokoCrocobee by GohdezignWhat do you think?  Read more

40 Logo Designs for Daily Deal and Group Buying Websites

DesignCrowd - Tuesday, July 12, 2011

"Deal of the day" or "Group Buying" websites are popping up all over the world.  They're the new startup trend and the valuations and capital they're attracting are creating waves in the online world while the discounts they're providing are creating waves for bricks and mortar retailers. With so many of these sites available chances are that if you work as a designer, and work with startups Read more

Design Blogs - Top 100 Design Blogs

DesignCrowd - Friday, February 11, 2011

In this article, DesignCrowd designer Crystal Bernia reveals the Top 100 Design Blogs ranked by traffic and categorized by topic.The world wide web is constantly sprouting new design blogs.  Amazingly, some of the biggest websites in the world are now graphic design blogs. For example, the largest graphic design blog (Smashing Magazine) is on of the top 500 websites in the wo Read more

6 Unusual Crowdsourcing Projects

DesignCrowd - Tuesday, February 1, 2011

When you think of graphic design crowdsourcing (and projects suited to design crowdsourcing) you probably think of logo design and web design and online design contests. However, there is so much more you can do with design crowdsourcing that you may not have even thought of. Crowdsourcing allows you to be creative and inventive with your projects and not just the designs. Wh Read more

50 Web Design Trends of 2010

DesignCrowd - Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Web design is a fast evolving industry and as such the trends in the web industry are ever changing. In today's modern market it has become a rich,mature medium which balances aesthetics and functionality. We have so many powerful tools at our disposal, (such as CSS and advanced HTML coding) and areon the verge of being able to utilise the long awaited HTML5 and CSS3 which will bring about a Read more

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