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Designers, we need your help!  Mycroburst and WeTransfer have teamed up to bring you a stellar contest.   You can win $300 and more!  Here are the details:

How can you win?
We need you to design a wallpaper advertisement that will be feature on WeTransfer.com’s website.  Once the winner is chosen their design will run for 3 months on WeTransfer.

What’s WeTransfer.com?
If you’re unfamiliar with WeTransfer, but are familiar with your email inbox reaching capacity, then this is the site for you.  Used by many, WeTransfer is a free online file transfer service.  The site is simple and very user-friendly.

When you visit www.WeTransfer.com, the only features are the uploader, and the large pieces of art and graphic design – or their wallpaper advertisements.

What’s a wallpaper?
WeTransfer is able to offer free file transferring, up to 2 GB per transfer, thanks to advertising.  But they do it a little differently.  Instead of annoying pop-ups or text-based banner ads, WeTransfer features artistic backgrounds which are beautiful, colorful images provided by advertisers.  Take a look at their website for its general ambiance.

What exactly should the wallpaper be like?
MycroBurst needs to design an original and create wallpaper that can be featured on WeTransfer.  As discussed previously, the wallpaper shouldn’t be like a normal advertisement, it should be an outstanding image or graphic!  It also needs to embody MycroBurst.com and what we represent.  Use the logo, but be creative with it!  Feel free to use our tagline if you wish – “get drenched in design.”

Please note, there is an upload box in the middle of WeTransfer’s website.  Please take that into consideration when designing.

When does the contest start and end?
It’s on!  Start submitting today at Mycroburst.com, we are accepting designs until Monday, June 27, 2011.

What’s in it for me?
$300!  And a free WeTransfer Channel!  2^nd and 3^rd place will also receive a WeTransfer channel!  At $120 per year, the channels allow you to have your own WeTransfer URL, customization to your site, extended file storage for 4 weeks and more!  Any freelance graphic designer will instantly seem more professional with a custom file transfer website.

What are the requirements?
Here’s the nitty gritty:  Files must be in the format of JPG, GIF or PNG.  Ideally the wallpaper should be 2560×1600 pixels.  The wallpaper must represent Mycroburst and include the logo in some way – be creative!  Don’t forget:  The WeTransfer site has an upload box that lies across the middle of the wallpaper. Check out the WeTransfer.com website to see what the website looks and feels like.
So what exactly are you waiting for?  Head over to the contest now, there are just about 2 weeks left!

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Here at MycroBurst we love hearing about our customer’s experiences with our site and designers.

Recently we received feedback from Terry Jones, the Founder and Former CEO of Travelocity, Chairmain of Kayak.com and business strategy speaker.

Take a look at what he had to say about his experience:

“I’ve been very intrigued by the crowdsourcing model, and found MycroBurst to be a very powerful way to source design services. It was much less expensive than traditional design methods, extremely fast, and overall, quite good. I would definitely recommend this to my friends and colleagues.”

Thank you so much for your kind words!

If you had a great experience with MycroBurst and our designers, please feel free to tell us about your experience.  We’d love to hear all bout your success!

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At MycroBurst.com, we are all about ensuring that our graphic designers have a fun and productive experience while participating on our online design contest platform. Part of that entails notifying designers of financially rewarding and portfolio enhancing graphic design opportunities. With that in mind, below is a list of 15 lucrative graphic design contests currently active on the MycroBurst roster.

Shout Out to Designers – Win Guaranteed Prize Money!

Given below are top 15 open design contests with cash prizes of up to a $1000! It should be kept in mind that there are dozens more graphic design contests available on the MycroBurst.com portal. All designers are encouraged to participate in them as well.

Project Name:	Industry:	Prize Money:	Design Brief:
DACA Investment	Financial	$500 Guaranteed
you.i	Apparel	$1000 Guaranteed
Courtroom Consulting	Law	$500 Guaranteed
Dr. U MD	Health	$1000 Guaranteed
Tara Farms	Agriculture	$500 Guaranteed
Race Truck	Sports	$400 Guaranteed
Citrus & Bee	Salon & Spa	$400 Guaranteed
CouponCroc.co.uk	General Merchandise	$500 Guaranteed
E & L Electric Motor	Manufacturing	$600 Guaranteed
Neon Capital	Financial	$500 Guaranteed
VETOR	Jewelry	$1000 Guaranteed
Calculators.co.uk	Internet Services	$500 Guaranteed
myFORCE	Security	$550 Guaranteed
Respot.com	Real Estate	$1000 Guaranteed
MedEvent911	Emergency Services	$600 Guaranteed

We highly recommend that designers carefully review the Project Brief for each individual contest before deciding which ones to pursue. Our team has handpicked these design contests to make sure that our designers get first dibs on high paying opportunities. Start working on these projects today!

New designers, register at Mycroburst.com and be a part of the winning team. Start Winning Today!

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Online logo design contests are all the rage these days, both among participants who live to prove their talents and among businesses who strive to seek a much needed identity. A lot has been said about these contests as of late. While businesses around the world have showed their support and have graciously rallied behind the concept, some individual critics remain who question its very integrity and purpose and have started an all out war against this “vice” as they have termed it.

Here we will try to put ourselves in these critic’s shoes and analyze their reasons or “deadly sins” if you would, for being so against the online design contests.

1. Low Prize Amount for a Good Design

This is a fair complaint voiced equally by the participants as well as critics. The prize money allocated by some contest holders is often times not congruent with the amount of work they demand from the designers. This trend however, is now changing. Companies are realizing the potential of online logo design contests and are now coming forth with more competitive prize amounts in order to attract more talented designers.

2. Poor Quality of Design

Critics have been beating this drum since the very inception of online design contests arguing that the quality of work will not be up to standard. I’d urge them to take another look at the winning logo designs. There is a reason why online design contests are so popular and the quality of work makes this quite apparent.

3. Lack of Qualified Participants

People participating in logo design contests haven’t been spared either, as skeptics have directly attacked their abilities, citing lack of skill and knowledge about the subject at hand. This argument carries no weight whatsoever. The pool of participants today comprises of experts from around the world who come forth with their knowledge and experience to participate.

4. Undermining the ‘Real Designers’

This is a painful pill to swallow for the critics who are mostly designers by profession themselves. Online design contests have opened doors for numerous designers willing to work for cheaper pay. This does not bode well for the ‘real designers’ who have made careers out of designing logos. What they need to realize is that these contests are not here to complete with them per say. They exist solely as a means to provide businesses with better alternative to seek a company identity on a modest budget.

5. End Up Costing More to Companies

Again a shot at participants by making the businesses doubt design contests. Sometimes companies are simply not satisfied with the final draft which leads to time wasted and money lost.  However, this usually happens when contest holders are not very forth coming about the details of the assignment. Clients now have started providing in depth briefs with all the dos and don’ts and that has essentially rectified this issue.

6. You Get What You Paid For

When nothing else works, you will see this tag line being thrown around a lot. Since the prize money is so low, there is always a concern that the end result may not meet expectations. Again, this has been proved wrong by the hard work and dedication of the participants.

7. There are Better Options for Getting a Design

There are other options. Sure. Better ones? Not really. With the enormous amount of talent now available combined with a fast and efficient platform like the internet, online design contests are simply the best option for companies to getting good results fast and at an affordable price.

Honestly, this attitude of critics is more of an exercise of their right to disagree rather than anything else. These are hardly any reasons to start an all out war of words (as they put it), against this supposed vice. I guess sometimes a soldier just doesn’t know when to quit, even though he knows he has lost the war.