Posted: September 25th, 2009 | Author: Charles Wu | Filed under: Late night updates, Web design | Tags: 99designs | No Comments »
A while ago I won a contest at 99designs for my online engineering education site design and was stoked.
Still, I never got to share all the failures I had in these online design contests. So, here we go, 99designs: The Fail Story.
In total, I submitted 8 designs to 8 different contests, some were just quick-edits of old designs and some were designs I made to WIN. That’s right, I had the win or bust mindset during the design process. I’d like to share two of the designs in the latter category.
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Posted: July 24th, 2009 | Author: Charles Wu | Filed under: Web design | Tags: 99designs, Web design | 2 Comments »
Recently, I’ve been entering in some web design contests at 99designs.com. 99designs hosts a lot of design contests by allowing anyone to sign up and setup a “design contest” for their business or company. There’s anything from logo design to t-shirt design to twitter background contests. I don’t really have the time to commit to guaranteed client work at the moment (which takes a couple weeks to complete); so, I pretty much just browse around the site looking for any interesting contests.
Well, I submitted an entry for the design of EngineeringDegrees.com and was chosen as the winner! I guess studying electrical engineering at college was finally put to some use? It may not be my flashiest design, but it fit their needs and they’re happy with it; so, it’s all good.
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