Announcements
How Would Pablo Picasso Paint The Letter “P”?
Ross | July 22nd, 2010What if some of the world’s most respected artists, including Picasso, Monet, Dr. Seuss, Dalí, Van Gogh and 21 other famous artists were each asked to paint a letter of the English alphabet – in their own unique style? How would each of their letters look? crowdSPRING’s Audree Rowe wrote and illustrated a fun book [...]
Screencast: Post your project on crowdSPRING!
Mike | April 15th, 2010We’ve prepared a short screencast video with instructions on posting your first project to crowdSPRING! Lots more information on posting projects can be found in our Help Center. Enjoy and please let us know if this is helpful.
Who are we? And, where do we come from? (2010 edition)
Mike | April 5th, 2010A little over a year ago, I wrote a post about the international flavor of the crowdSPRING community and I thought perhaps it was time to click the refresh button and see what’s happened in the past year. When I wrote that post, we had been in business for almost a year and we had [...]
Satisfaction (guaranteed)
Ross and Mike | March 11th, 2010Later today begins a new day at crowdSPRING and a new approach to our community. When we launched in May of 2008, we offered buyers a simple guarantee, and made an equally simple promise to creatives. We guaranteed “25 entries or your money back” and promised creatives that when a project reached the 25 entry [...]
U.S. Government Embraces Crowdsourcing
Ross | March 10th, 2010The White House has embraced crowdsourcing, urging federal agencies in a memo issued on March 8, 2010 to use challenges and prizes to crowdsource innovative approaches to governmental initiatives and programs. Within the next 120 days, the administration will release a web-based platform to manage the government’s crowdsourcing efforts. Some of you might recall that [...]
New Stock Art Policy
Jerome | March 3rd, 2010The use of stock art has always been prohibited in crowdSPRING logo design projects. Today we are announcing zero tolerance policy towards users who break this rule. Any creative who submits stock art to a logo project will have their account removed immediately and permanently along with all the work that s/he has submitted to [...]
Here Comes the FLOOD
Audree | March 2nd, 2010From time to time here on crowdSPRING, a design project will get “flooded” with entries by one creative. We are often asked by buyers and other creatives if this is acceptable. Well, no it’s not. To help clarify, we have compiled some FAQ’s about flooding. We hope this will help everyone understand the problem better. [...]
New crowdSPRING policy in LOGO projects!
Jerome | March 1st, 2010Hi All, For a long time now, many Creatives in our community have wanted to submit entries to logo design projects showing their design on various “collateral” items, such as tee shirts, hats, packaging, business cards, etc. Until now, we have not permitted this, because we felt it was unfair to other creatives who could [...]
