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Crowd sourcing. No phrase makes more designers cringe than crowd sourcing, except maybe “angry clients with pitchforks.” For whatever reason, the thought of competing with thousands of other users for gigs, clients, and projects is totally appealing, to us as well as most other designers we know. If you happened to grow up and work in an age when your book was still carried in a leather chap with handles, we have a feeling you don\u2019t even know what crowd sourcing is. But is this how it should be? Should all of us creative types be so terrified of the idea of crowd sourcing? To be honest, not at all, and for one very good reason: DesignContest.com<\/a>.
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\nThe site combines the best of a traditional design runoff with the best of crowd sourcing, producing an experience that\u2019s simple, easy to learn, and potentially endlessly rewarding. If you\u2019re still not sold on the concept, don\u2019t worry: We\u2019re going to dive into the matter directly, but before we do, we feel we owe the elders and ludites amongst us a quick explanation of the crowd sourcing concept itself.<\/p>\n

What is Crowd Sourcing, Anyway?<\/h2>\n

To begin with, you may be wondering just what in the name of all things holy crowd sourcing actually is. (By the way, we\u2019ve also seen it spelled \u201ccrowdsourcing\u201d but to avoid any jargony turn-offs, we\u2019re going to opt to spell it in phrase format. No matter the orthography, though, the idea behind the concept is relatively simple: In times gone past, you would hire a specialist to deal with your problems. Do you have a pipe that needs fixing? Hire a plumber. Have to buy a house? Get a realtor. Need a new logo for your business? Find, hire, and coax a graphic design firm into giving you what you want. But what if we took this idea of need-and-purchase and stretched it out over the entire Internet? What if it were possible to use a mountain of producers, instead of a single firm?<\/p>\n

Essentially, this is exactly what crowd sourcing does. The whole idea is that a business can access a crowd sourcing site, start the contest of its needs (logo design<\/a>, website design<\/a>, t-shirt design<\/a>, banner design<\/a>, etc.), and then accept bids and proposals from a sea of Internet-based designers. From this slush heap, the original purchaser can select the best deal, send out a single payment, and then receive the goods. This cuts out entirely the need for complex contracts, messy payments, and long waits at the firm. It\u2019s a beautiful system, but DesignContest.com makes it even more appealing.<\/p>\n

How Does it Work?<\/h2>\n