DesignCrowd

Minimum Design Standards Policy

The DesignCrowd Minimum Design Standards Policy (the "Minimum Standards" or “Standards Agreement”) outlines DesignCrowd 's requirements for your submissions (including text, graphics, photos, designs or other artwork) through the website www.DesignCrowd.com (the “Site” or the “Service”).  Note that in addition to these Minimum Standards is the User Agreement, which details your rights and responsibilities when using the Service, must be agreed to and followed.

Non-Compliance

DesignCrowd reserves the right, but not the obligation, to remove, block, not display and not store any information or materials that we deem to not comply with the Minimum Standards. DesignCrowd may limit, suspend or terminate the Service or remove member content and submissions to keep members off the site if we think they do not comply with our Minimum Standards.  DesignCrowd may block, cancel or reverse payments (including participation payments or place payments) to designers if we deem their submissions do not comply with the Minimum Standards.

DesignCrowd will have no obligation to monitor submissions or contributions made on the Service. However, DesignCrowd and its customers and other members have the right to monitor these transmissions and postings and report these activities or take the action as detailed above where the User Agreement or any other policies are breached.

General Quality

Submissions must be of reasonable quality.  DesignCrowd reserves the right to deem any submission as being of unreasonable quality.

As a guideline, we define reasonable quality as designs that are:
  • Highly professional
  • Meeting the brief
  • Suitable for the purpose and target market
DesignCrowd reserves the right to deem the general quality of a submission to be unacceptable and thus non-compliant with these guidelines.  DesignCrowd will reject submissions designed too quickly, with unreasonable quality or where we think the aim of earning a minimum payment.

Image Resolution

Images that you submit in response to a should be in 300dpi (dots per inch).  Images should be .jpg format.

Vector Quality

Vector images should:
  • Be Editable and Scalable - all elements within the file must be vectors.  There should be no raster elements.
  • Closed shapes - there should be no breaks or gaps in the outlines of your vector.
  • Font as outlines - all fonts should be converted to outlines.
  • No spare shapes - unneccessary shapes left in the background should be removed.

Submissions with vectors not possessing these attributes will be rejected.

Vector File Format

Vector submissions must be EPS file.  We prefer Adobe Illustrator 8-compatible EPS files.  The EPS file format is critical to your file's acceptance.

Colours

Logo designs should use Pantone colours.  Images for the web should use RGB colours.

File Matching

 When submitting designs in response to a brief the composition of your jpg image, eps vector and source files should match.  This is essential to the acceptance of your submission.