DesignContest® is a community shaped by the joint efforts of talented designers and contestholders. By hosting a contest with us, contest holders are able to choose from a variety of greatdesigns created by our many talented designers. Our designers compete for the prize offered,allowing them to push the limits and create innovative new designs.
DesignContest (designcontest.com) has 85 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 4.4 out of 5.
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Bob
I went on to be a designer. They gave me infractions and banned me for 2 years. You give them free designs so they can make money, and they have no appreciation for you. They let me enter one of the contests and kicked me out.
Gerald H.
The worst contest site ever. Awful communication, you're lucky to get any reply at all from the website management, and if you do, they treat their designers like crap. The briefings are ridiculous, they're so vague, it's anyone's guess what the client wants. Contests closing with no winners being nominated is also a common thing. In general, the quality of the designs submitted is just horrendous, but that doesn't matter, because if you look at the designs selected and rated, it's easy to see that the contest holders don't have a clue of what they're doing. Getting your design copied by other designers, is also completely normal, anything goes, and the website management couldn't care less. Would you like to clarify or discuss some aspect of the briefing with the client? You can't. Only after you submit a design, you can post questions. Expect the contest-holder to reply to your question? Forget it. So, if you like to work for free, in the dark, for lousy prizes, with clients that have no idea of what they're doing, and still get treated like crap, by the ignorant lady that manages the site and who also has no clue of how to manage such things, or even how to talk to people, this is for you.
Orly A.
Honesty is a virtue, my humble advice, they should allow the system to work and not interfere. They should stop lying. My worse experience is their negligence to do due diligence on a client who used fraudulent Mastercard. This client took all our designs from six or seven designers without paying a dime. How can this happen. I don't want to say the company is fraud but with the way they are doing things and how things are moving, am beginning to believe they are engage in some fraudulent activities and they need to be investigated. The company they said engaged in fraud and took away six or seven designs without payment was Lab-Away. Gosh
Matt D.
Worse site dont waste your time on this site. Any positive reviews are from the insiders that probably work there. They take your idea then they delete and ban it informing you that it was copied from somewhere. When you ask them to prove it or at least to let you know which part is copied, they ignore and ban you. I repeat do not waste your time basically working for free for these scumbags.
Añnïkå B.
Design contest is a scam, Repeatedly gives infraction points while I did not steal any art from anyone.
Autumn V. R.
Why on earth would you share a personal conversation I had with one of your moderators on my personal messenger on social media? Did I give you permission to do so? No. I did not. Just like I said, your company is very unprofessional and its the same exact thing you did to the man that was unhappy with your service. You put him on blast and belittled him and again in your response to me. I'm glad you did repeat my conversation though because it shows how incredibly petty and ridiculous you are behaving. So I was blocked from sending your company messages on Facebook because I said 'Goodbye'???? You actually admitted to everyone on here that you did that to a member of your community. Because I said 'Goodbye'. WOW. What is your policy on that as well??? As far as 'taking your advice', I most certainly did go to the Designers Court and post my design and how my design was copied by another person. You should double check your info before posting false information about anyone. The response from the mediator was about 10 words. It was very vague about how my design was not copied. No explanation, nothing. What is your policy and criteria when deciding if someone has stolen another designers work? I re-posted my work next to the person that copied mine and also gave the mediator SEVERAL reasons how it was exactly the same as mine. The 2nd moderator was extremely rude! This is how the moderator that responded to my post started his comment, "Hi! You don't need to post this 3 times. We heard your message." Thats how you train your employees to talk to members? They need remedial training. I was not familiar with your process. That is why it was posted more than once. Again, I would like to know the policy and criteria that decides how a decision like that is made...as well as your policy on why you would block someone from sending you messages on Facebook. You mentioned that I said I was banned from the website. I NEVER said that in my response. Another false accusation. Stop Now. You are lying on social media about me. I am asking you to STOP doing that from this point on. I believe doing that is a crime. You seem to be making decisions on emotion. And I'll bet you respond AGAIN to make some sort of stand to try and not appear rude and unprofessional. Too late. You need to be giving yourself 'infraction' points. I've never seen anything like this from a company before. Your website is perfect for you and customers. Customers pay next to nothing and get to pick from several hundred designs. You charge these customers and make money off them and the designers get nothing. Designers! Don't do it unless you like to work for free. There are too many entries for each contest. Odds are not in your favor. Don't let these rude people on designcontest make money off of your designs! You are worth more than that and deserve to be compensated!
Response from DesignContestMar 7, 2020
HI there, The previous report did not mention anything of a personal message. what was said "We are sorry you feel the response was rude in the FB messages. This has been reviewed and there was not one time the person replied in a rude manor to you. You were asked to go to designers court several times and it was pointed out that FB is not the place for issues about reported entries, that is what designers court is for. You were the one that with the lat words said "good bye" only at that time your username was blocked. You chose to leave. You chose not to go to designers court. You were given a solution, it was your choice to not follow up with that. Plus you are NOT banned on the website, you can still go to designers court and express your opinion" no where does it say you were banned from the website. You were asked to go to The contest forums several times in a very polite manner 4 times. There was nothing rude at all. You were asked very politely... "please go to the forums and post about this reported entry" nothing was posted of a negative manner to you or about you. You said "goodbye" you were angry that the design was told to you it was not copied. that angered you and then there was some chastising from you in the message. Still the moderator was polite and never rude to you. We NEVER said you were banned and NEVER said you said you were banned. In fact we told you " you are NOT banned " and can go to the forums an post your issue so it could be discussed further ( we explained that facebook messages is not the place to discuss reported entries). You did go to the forums a little later and we thank you for doing so. Another moderator that works website and flyer type reports answered and told you it was not copied. The reason to be blocked on FB is not for you it is for anyone leaving in an angry way, Angry people can write things that don't normally say or write so it protects the user as well as the business form such instances. if the user is not angry anymore and want unblocked they are unblocked, very simple and it saves a lot of face for users. Good luck in your design business
Wilson F.
As a freelance designer I have been posting designs to this worst ever site and what they do is to remove your designs when you receive high ratings. Your rules are not clear when designers have subscription to third parties stock imagery to be used on designs and a bad language manners you guys have replied to my personal email. BAD COMPANY.
Response from DesignContestSep 3, 2019
Hi there, Your registered email was replied to because you sent in a helpdesk ticket, how do we reply to your help ticket without emailing you? The only bad language came from you not designcontest. All you had to do was go to chat with mods in the forums or designers court and discuss the issue, instead you sent in email with bad language and posted this bad review because you submitted a design that was removed for a violation, We have many many ways you can contact us, we have live chat, helpdesk, the forums Instead of writing this false review why don't you submit the design again without the copyrighted art or better yet create your own work so this will not happen again ? Your ticket reads title of ticket " Infraction Bullshit" "An infraction has been applied to my design on a contest and I find that BULLSHIT from moderator. This was the reason given: Copied design! Also you can not use premade designs. I want proof of that.... RAIDA Conceptualization Worst design contest site ever... …….. Our rules and guidelines are VERY clear. It is YOUR responsibility to check all the ELUA on any design you did not create yourself. As I said in my reply to you, we follow the law, The client can't copyright the design you submitted because the ELUA doesn't allow for that usage. 1. if design is clipart 2. design has been copied or stolen 3. If designer has been removed form site for serious violations such as stolen logo 4. in your case ( we have found your account) Copied design! Also you can not use premade designs. https://www.designcontest.com/infographic-design/raida-conceptualization/entry/10/; https://www.designcontest.com/infographic-design/raida-conceptualization/entry/9/; https://as2.ftcdn.net/jpg/01/79/70/ You are the one not following the rules and guidelines. Contestholder CAN NOT copyright art you did not create. You legally cant sign over rights to use artwork you did NOT create. We have rules and guidelines for a reason and we do not play favorites, the same rules and guidelines apply to ALL desingers The contestholder is the person in charge of their contest. The contestholder can choose to remove your entries if they are not what they want or like, designcontest.com does not do this. Thank you
Evan G.
I was really fired up to have this recommended site sponsor 2 design contests. Their website screwed up and said my phone number didn't exist. I contacted their call center in Ukraine and spent 20 minutes getting that resolved. Then I thought I was happily on my way. wrong. I sponsored a competition at my custom-selected dollar value. When the competition posted, it wasn't the proper amount. So I entered the correct amount and promptly charged my credit card for BOTH amounts. Even then, it was way wrong. I jacked with this for hours. Reversing the charges would take 3 days, even though it took 5 seconds for them to charge me. The call center kept insisting that she was the ONLY person in the company who could resolve my problem. After I called American Express and had them reverse, I received a call within a couple of minutes from a lady who was "on vacation" but calling to see what's up. She got angry at me for reversing the charges. She said, "you cost us $25 for each reversal, that's $50".....no maam, YOU cost yourself $50 plus a thousand bucks worth of really cool design work.....DOUBLE THUMBS DOWN for DesignContest!!! Customer is KEY, and you guys don't even have a clue!! Sincerely, Evan
