CrowdSpring: Community Based Design
I discovered a site today called CrowdSpring, which is a fantastic community based design site based right here in Chicago. The concept behind Crowdspring is this:
- I have a project I want designed (logo, website, t-shirt, etc.)
- I post it to Crowdspring with some information about my project and a prize. Most of the prizes I saw were around a few hundred dollars.
- Designers submit their designs and the community and myself (the buyer) choose the winner.
The designs that I saw were pretty amazing for $150. I really like the site and wish them well. I think they have enough of a first to market advantage to get some steam.
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Hi Jeff,
Thanks so much for writing about us and for the good wishes. Just as iStockPhoto has helped bring about a change in the industry, we’d like to do the same. They’ve opened the door to millions upon millions of people who previously had no way to get noticed in the creative community. Threadless has done the same thing for t-shirt design. Creative people can’t stop being creative and they look for any outlet they can.
We like to think that we’re following the path that these other models have blazed.
And we provide some pretty powerful features - we handle the billing and payment, we provide legal contracts, we handle end to end project management (including feedback). We’ve had some very nice projects from local businesses (For example, Cachefly had a great site design project a month ago and received 60 designs). We look forward to seeing more.
Best,
Ross
Best of luck Ross. I think your model is right along the lines of Threadless and as long as you can keep the traffic flowing and creative ideas coming in, you’ll be just fine.