crowdspring

crowdspring is an online platform where businesses post a design or naming brief and receive entries from a large pool of vetted freelance creatives. The customer reviews the submissions, picks a winner and takes ownership of the chosen work. It serves businesses, agencies and nonprofits that lack an in-house creative team.

What crowdspring offers

• Custom logo design — a brief is opened to many designers, who submit original concepts to choose from.
• Business naming — naming projects run in the same way, with multiple suggestions from the community.
• Website design — customers have used the platform both to redesign existing sites and to build new ones.
• Brand design — broader brand work so a business can present a consistent identity.
• IP protection — the winning design passes to the customer, who may use it however they like.

Who it works with

crowdspring serves small businesses, agencies and nonprofits worldwide, including professionals who have no creative staff of their own. Reviewers describe starting with modest briefs and getting over a hundred entries on a single project.

Key facts

• Creative pool: more than 220,000 vetted designers and namers
• Customers: over 60,000 businesses, agencies and nonprofits
• Reviews: rated 4.9 out of 5 across 5,826 customer reviews
• Guarantee: a refund is offered if a customer is not happy with the project