There are many ways you can earn money on the Internet and if you are a designer then it just get even better. You can easily earn quick bucks by making logos, banners, graphics and web layouts for clients. Today we are going to discuss how to earn money by participating in Graphic Design Competitions.
The advancement of Technology has enabled us to fit in a number of specialized roles. Certainly there are many advantages as well as disadvantages to it but for now lets just focus on the advantages. There are a number of people out there who are highly skilled and would want to use their talents to earn money easily. The Internet just provides more methods and means for these. Among the most advantageous method of getting good amount of money is to be specialized in a particular field and then reap benefits from it. In the same manner graphic design is a good enough money earning field but some how many graphic designers out there do not know how to reap full benefit from their designing skills. So I wanted to help my Graphic designer friends through this post. In this post I am going to suggest you one of the easiest way of earning money online by designing logos and websites by participating in Logo and Website Design Competition. Lately a number of websites have sprung up which allow Clients to post up Logo and Website design projects as a competition which enables them to get the best graphic design for their website.
A graphic designer can earn a good amount of money by participating in these kind of competition if he has skills and can design good logos and websites. These kind of competition have good amount of prize money associated with them, e.g. 250-500$ per competition. So you can earn anything from between 20-500$ and even more in one go. And moreover that you can participated in more than 1 competition at the same time as well as provide multiple entries on the same competition to increase your chances. So it is a win- win situation for both Clients as well as the designer. Even if you are not that good at designs and are just starting out , then too this can act as a good learning ground for you as well as if your luck favours you can earn some good amount of money.
Here I list you the top Graphic Design Competitions website where you can sign up and start participating in the competitions:
1 ) 99 Designs :– 99 designs is one of the leading Designing Contest website out there. In 99Designs you can participate in Logo Design, Website Design, Icon Design, WordPress Design, Stationary Design, T-Shirt Design, Print Design and other Design Competitions.
2 ) HatchWise : – Another one where you can participate in Logo, Website, Graphic, Brochure Design Competition and get paid good amounts when you win. Very active and new projects are posted daily (actually I see their messages filled up in my inbox daily)
3 ) DesignContest :- Like others this is also a website where you can find design contests to participate in. Well not much activity as others. At a time you can about 5-8 projects on which you can work on. Also I did not find any other competition going on except logo design Competitions.
4 ) LogoMyWay :- Another one which you can join, this one is also quite active. LogoMyWay connects clients needing design work such as Custom logo designs, T-shirts designs, Business card designs and more to a thriving community of talented logo designers exploding with creativity.
5 ) DesignTourney :- Another good one, participate in Identity design and Print Design Competitions. Semi-Active.
6) LogoSauce:- This one if for Logo Design Competitions. You can also showcase your own logos here.
7) LogoTournment :- Participate in the numerous logo comp….ehmm…Tournments that happens in this site. Win and earn.
8 ) 48hourslogo:- As the name suggests, the clients starts a logo design comeptition and then gets the logo the very next day. For people wanting logo designs, Start a contest for as low as $29
9) Astada:- This is another website where you can try your luck at the numerous design contests out there. You can participate in Logo Design, Website Design and any other Graphical Design Competition.
So this kind of contest not only provides good opportunities to designers to earn money but also to people who need designs since they can get the best design because of this contest.
