I'm a designer, how will my designs be used?

For logo design contests and other types of graphic design contests, when you submit a design your designs will be shown to the client on our website (and possibly via email or PDF depending on the client's preferences) as JPGs. Clients will not have the ability to access source files (if you have chosen to upload them) without first selecting you as the winner. If selected and purchased, the ownership of your design is transferred to the client.

In addition to this, the copyright of all designs submitted to DesignCrowd contests is owned by the designer who submitted the design (save for the company name, tagline, accompanying art, etc that is supplied by the customer) until that design has been selected as the winner of a given project.

If the project is public, your designs will be added to your designer portfolio and will be shown to other users of DesignCrowd. By default, all designs submitted to a design contest are kept hidden from other designers until the design contest deadline finishes. Once a deadline for a contest passes all designs for that contest are displayed publicly if the project has not been set to private.

Note that a minimum of 20 designs must be shown in your design portfolio at all times (unless you've not met the 20 minimum yet), so in order to "hide" a design, you must at least have 21 designs displayed.