Anyone ever use 99designs or Crowdspring for design work?

nskitts · 01-31-2013, 04:24 PM

Basically,
You post the amount you will pay (typically $250-$300) and post your idea for a logo or design that you need and a contest is created in which multiple designers compete for the cash. I have been looking over the sites and have seen some great work. Does anyone have any experience with either of these or others like them?

JamesG · 01-31-2013, 04:35 PM

Depends on what you are doing and what kind of response you get. You can get a lot of ideas (and crap) that takes a lot of time to sift thru.

nskitts · 02-02-2013, 06:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JamesG

Depends on what you are doing and what kind of response you get. You can get a lot of ideas (and crap) that takes a lot of time to sift thru.

Were you successful in getting what you were looking for?

JamesG · 02-02-2013, 06:52 PM

Yes I suppose so. We farmed out an algorithmic problem to the unwashed massed, and the results were from pathetic to the functional, but nothing "OMG! that's genius!" . Nothing that we couldn't have coded out ourselves if we'd just done it. As mentioned earlier, the time spent evaluating various submissions probably made the thing a wash, man-hours wise..

It was interesting as a process experiment. YMMV. Go'fer it, for your application you might have better results.

01-31-2013, 04:24 PM	#1
nskitts ^OP Beastly Adventurer Joined: Apr 2006 Location: Southern Ohio Oddometer: 2,710	Anyone ever use 99designs or Crowdspring for design work? Basically, You post the amount you will pay (typically $250-$300) and post your idea for a logo or design that you need and a contest is created in which multiple designers compete for the cash. I have been looking over the sites and have seen some great work. Does anyone have any experience with either of these or others like them? __________________ "I never regretted any vacation that I took." --Dad, a few months before he passed.

01-31-2013, 04:35 PM	#2
JamesG Beastly Adventurer Joined: Dec 2006 Location: Columbus, GA Oddometer: 9,991	Depends on what you are doing and what kind of response you get. You can get a lot of ideas (and crap) that takes a lot of time to sift thru. __________________ I am a conservative, not a Republican. There is a difference.

02-02-2013, 06:52 PM	#4
JamesG Beastly Adventurer Joined: Dec 2006 Location: Columbus, GA Oddometer: 9,991	Yes I suppose so. We farmed out an algorithmic problem to the unwashed massed, and the results were from pathetic to the functional, but nothing "OMG! that's genius!" . Nothing that we couldn't have coded out ourselves if we'd just done it. As mentioned earlier, the time spent evaluating various submissions probably made the thing a wash, man-hours wise.. It was interesting as a process experiment. YMMV. Go'fer it, for your application you might have better results. __________________ I am a conservative, not a Republican. There is a difference.

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