New Crowdsource Platform From Amsterdam Challenges Graphic Design Talent Around the World

AMSTERDAM - PimTim, the online marketplace for graphic design, used its own platform (www.pimtim.com) to challenge creative people from all over the world to design its new identity. Today, PimTim shows its identity and website to the world.

PimTim

PimTim is a crowdsource platform that challenges the traditional way of doing business in the graphic design industry and encourages designers and buyers all over the world to go into business together by means of a contest.

Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing has proved itself as a genuine new distribution platform for “user generated content” from YouTube to the way in which Obama used the crowd for his election campaign. PimTim offers buyers, who need a graphical design, a large community of graphic designers around the world. Buyers can set their own prize and the designers compete for the buyer’s prize by showing their creative quality, talent and ideas.

Proof-of-concept

PimTim used its platform, as a proof-of-concept, to design their new identity to show the potential of unlocking creative talent from all over the world. The contest, which ran 3 weeks, delivered 1,117 designs (!) from 234 creatives from more than 30 countries.

“Our expectations were surpassed,” said Vincent Bröring, cofounder of PimTim. “Did you ever see a contest with so much creativity unleashed? We are very happy it went this way because it shows the possibilities of PimTim and that there is creative talent everywhere around the world.”

Karsten Skjoldhøj, Director of Designmind, a Danish design-agency from Charlottenlund won the contest prize of Euro 2,500. “It was my intention to create a strong, timeless, beautiful identity with a clear idea. And by telling the PimTim story in a simple and yet strong way with a twist of humour,” said Karsten.

Fast and easy

PimTim is transparent, funny, fast and easy. You post a design-project for a logo, stationary, a T-shirt-print, a website-design or another graphic illustration. You set your prize. You get many different quality designs from all over the world. Every design is visible and can be commented on easily. You choose the best design. And that all within two weeks time.

About PimTim

The vision of PimTim is to build a really new economy by the means of crowdsourcing. PimTim wants to give everybody the possibility to connect to talent all over the world.

www.PimTim.com is an online marketplace for graphic design, where buyers and creatives meet and connect. Buyers can post a project, enjoy the designs and make a choice. Creatives can show their creative talent, can learn, interact and earn money along the way.

PimTim was founded in November 2008 in Amsterdam by five experienced people from the graphical industry, IT-consultancy and retail.

More information is available at www.pimtim.com.

Source: PimTim

Contact information: Vincent Bröring, Tel: +31-623520392, contact at pimtim.com or vincent at pimtim.com, Amsterdam, The Netherlands