CrowdStudio – an Affordable Graphic Design Platform for Startups

Most startup founders know the importance of good design. The problem is most don’t have the budget to afford a quality design studio. Their only option is to find designer friends, budding freelancers or small design studios so as to get this done on a budget.

Presenting CrowdStudio, a platform to solve graphic design for startups. It is founded by WowMakers, a digital media studio, based at Kochi.

What is CrowdStudio?

CrowdStudio is an affordable graphic design platform for startups. It’s a self-service platform. All you need to do is sign in, launch a design contest and get the design of your dreams.

There are many design categories for the clients to choose from, each with their own pricing packages in Gold, Silver and Bronze. The complete set of categories on our platform includes:

• Banner Ad Design
• Book Cover Design
• Complete Brand Identity
• Business Card Design
• Logo Design
• Mascot Design
• Poster Design
• Social Media Design
• Stationery Design
• T-shirt Design

Check out the complete design categories here.

 How it works?

• Select your design category
• Choose your budget
• Write your design brief
• Complete the payment & Launch your contest
• Get a lot of designs within days. Give feedback to see revisions.
• Select the design you love. Get the final files.

Please find our detailed how it works page to know more.

Why CrowdStudio? What problems does it solve?

• Design quality: CrowdStudio has a community of 200+ hand-picked professional designers. Amateurs are filtered out, which helps ensure design quality.
• Design options: CrowdStudio has the full range of design categories offered by traditional design studios – logo design, business cards, banner ads, brochures, posters, mascots…everything, including designing a complete brand identity.
• Design pricing: Startup-friendly packages for each design option, some starting from less than Rs. 3000. The pricing is exclusive for early customers.
• Quick turnaround time: It takes just 7 days to get the design you want.
• Unlimited revisions: There is no obligation to accept a design, even the winning design, until you are a 100% satisfied. In other words, we guarantee you get the design you love!
• Full copyright: After it’s handed over to you, you have full control and copyright over the winning design.
• 100% money back: Normally this is something we try to avoid, because obviously, it means the client is unhappy. We do everything in our power to fix it, but if the client is still not satisfied, we give 100% money back, no questions asked.

What’s our story?

Some of you may know the story of CrowdStudio, which began when WowMakers itself was a startup. Myself and my co-founder,  Vivek Raghavan were often flooded with design requests from other startups. They desperately needed good design services, but couldn’t afford the prices. Being the first startup at Startup Village and the unparalleled support we received from the startup community, we always believed in giving back something to the community. We helped a lot of startups with good designs at heavily discounted price, but it was no way scalable.

This is the idea, the whole driving force behind CrowdStudio. We have no intention of replacing traditional design companies. What we do is make first-rate branding accessible to startups, and in doing so, bring them one step closer to achieving their dream.

We’ve already distributed more than 3 Lakhs to our designer community as winning prize. Please do check out our portfolio and tell us what you think.

We love your feedback! 🙂

Jaseem (@jaseemts)