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HiretheWorld is a crowdsourced design marketplace. The company was founded in 2009 in Vancouver BC, and has hosted more than 75,000 design contests.
I think the crowdsourcing model is particularly useful for graphic design projects. You can tap into a wide network of visions and ideas, rather than being tied down to one designer or freelancer.
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Services
HiretheWorld specializes in logo designs, website designs, and book covers, but can run a contest for anything graphic design-related.
The way it works is you fill in a brief questionnaire about what you’re looking for in your design, and then you start to collect submissions from all over the world. HiretheWorld boasts a truly global network of designers, with active representatives from more than 130 countries.
That broad range of perspectives can help yield unique and thoughtful designs. The average HiretheWorld design contest attracts over 100 entries.
After you’ve reviewed all the entries, you get to pick the winner and the designer gets paid. If you don’t like any of them, you don’t have to pay; the company has a risk-free money back guarantee.
HiretheWorld Intro Video
Plans and Pricing
Logo contests start at $265, which is a little less than market-leader 99designs. In general, the more you pay, the more entries you’ll get and the higher caliber of designers you’ll attract. And if I was a betting man, I would wager that many of the designers active on 99designs and similar sites are also active here.
One alternative for cheap logo design is Logo Garden.
Web design contests start at $665. For me, I might look at some premium WordPress themes before plunking down that kind of cash. Plus, that’s just for the design, not any of the html or functional coding.
Authors can get a professional book cover designed from $365. Again, and maybe this is me being cheap, but I’m pretty happy with the book cover I had made on Fiverr.
Before you sign up, take a look through the HiretheWorld design gallery to get a feel for the kind of work their designers are producing.
Your Turn
Have you tried HiretheWorld for graphic design work? If so, please share a quick review below to help others with their decision.
Beware potential clients. Before going to HireTheWorld for any kind of design, do some research. They DON’T PAY designers, they REFUSE to reply to e-mails and YOU (clients) will eventually end up with your money stolen and a take-down notice for the design you think you’ve bought.