What is the purpose of linking designs?

Linking designs was introduced to assist designers in grouping submissions of the same design. If you have multiple submissions which are essentially the same design (that is, they are a variation of an earlier design you've submitted), then you should link them together.

A linked design just allows submissions to be grouped for the customer and to be all be present on a handover page once a customer selects one of those designs as the winning submission. Linking simply saves you and the customer time later on when they are interested in purchasing a design from you but wants to get access to some variations and revisions.

Examples of when to link

If you want to submit to a logo project, you would simply submit your design as you would normally through the Submit Design page. Once this has been submitted, you may want to submit a variation on this design. In this case, you would then submit your variation as a linked submission to this design. Examples of design variations that should be submitted as a linked design:

• Color variations
• Different fonts used between logos
• Changes in positioning of logo text etc.
• Design revisions (changes or improvements made to a design)
• Black and white / monochrome version of logo

Linking is also useful when you want to submit a rendered view of a logo. That is, if you have produced a logo and would like to show what it looks like on the side of a mug, car or t-shirt etc. These should be submitted as linked designs.