Today I came across a nice unique site – Creative.gd. Creative.gd (Creative Graphic Design) is an innovative site that offers the designing community at chance to interact with a whole range of different clients, all with a variety of design needs from a simple business logo right through to a complete website design. Creative.gd allows businesses or individuals to post their design requirements on the site in the form of a competition, which can then be accessed by the global designing community. These design contests are open to any level of designer, from a student right through to a world class art director, and are an excellent way for designers to broaden their freelance portfolios and enhance their careers.

Creative.gd was founded in 2008 by a professional freelance creative, who recognised the need for a forum where designers and clients of all levels and budgets could meet and work together, allowing designers beginning their careers the chance to get experience meeting client requirements and deadlines, and also allowing professional freelancers the chance to work on new and more varied projects away from the rigorous and competitive demands of big business design.

It is easy to launch a design contest with Creative.gd, just start by drafting a design brief, listing your requirements and how much you are willing to pay the winning designer for their work. This is the prize offered for the whole competition and could be anything from $250 – $1000, or more depending on your individual requirements. It is completely free to post the contest on the website, so just simply prepay the prize money (held securely in the Creative.gd escrow account) and then post your contest online. Designers from around the world will then submit their concepts to you, and as the client you can rate the designs and provide feedback through the ‘Discuss this Project’ feature in your control panel. At the end of the project (usually between 7-14 days), you then select a winner and the designer will send you the finished, original work and Creative.gd will complete the transaction by forwarding the prize money to the winner.

If you are a designer interested in entering one of the Creative.gd competitions, then you can visit the website  to see all of the latest contests on offer. For example currently Creative.gd are offering an excellent little project to design a new slogan for the Creative.gd website itself, which has a prize pot of $300 and is open until the 3 September 09. It is also a good idea to read through the Creative.gd blog pages, which offer additional prizes and also provide news on any upcoming features and enhancements to the services, and also any bugs that may be affecting the site.:cool:

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