Project Ideas for Graphic Designers
PGD Projects is a playing field for graphic designers. We provide fun design project ideas for anyone interested in keeping their design skills constantly challenged.
Q1: Any suggestions on a name for this site? I had so many ideas for which the url is already taken, I'm open to suggestions!
Idea Description
PGD Projects provides project ideas for designers interested in keeping their skills constantly challenged. Whether you’re a student looking to expand your portfolio, a full-time designer whose job doesn't utilize your design genius or if you just have extra time in your hands, PGD Projects is for you!
Projects will be assigned with various levels of “restrictions”. If you’re looking to expand your portfolio stick to the first portion of the assignment. If you’re looking to challenge yourself a bit further, we will sometimes provide various extra credit details, which will allow you creative freedom but will give you a few more “real world” guidelines.
http://www.pgdprojects.com
What will you do if you win $10,000 for this idea?
I'm currently working on a simple site to get things going, but I would love to invest some money into it so that I can have more features for people visiting the site such as user profiles to showcase projects created within the site. It would be great to create a community for designers to interact with one another.
Vote for it now.
I think you could utilize an ideablob format, where the top designs win a prize. You could also feature your designs on some sort of commodity (that you own) and market them to the public. This would give you a revenue stream as well as give incentive to designers to use your site and take it seriously.
Take a look at a few of these sites and see how you can learn from them:
http://www.threadless.com/
http://www.evolt.org/2006-weo-design-contest
As always, appearance and creative functionality are important to your site. I think you should not only pour resources into scaling your project, but you should also look at ways to improve your site. A good site makes people comfortable with your venture.