Each month, DesignContest will choose one of our successful, talented designers from around the world to showcase in our blog. It’s our way of showing appreciation for the dedication and contribution of our Designer of the Month, as well as honoring the skill and creativity our top designers possess.

Give your congratulations to this month’s featured designer – Morabira!

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As more and more designers start turning to crowdsourcing websites to seek employment opportunities, and more and more companies start seeking their designers via crowdsource websites, any graphic designer has to sit back and consider this new form of employment. More experienced designers might view crowdsourcing with skepticism while young, newly emerging designers see it as the perfect opportunity to try out their newly developed skills. Here is a quick overview of some of the pros of working on a design project through crowdsourcing.

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Looking for some graphical inspiration for your tee shirt designs? There are loads of websites showing off their great tees online, but these top three really take the cake. Are you also eager to enter a tee shirt contest and win cash? Give it a shot as well with these trendy tee websites.

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Ever heard of pixel art? It is basically a type of digital art where the artist creates the image by working at the zoomed-in pixel level. Many older console and pc games feature pixel art, as do newer handheld games on mobile phones and gaming devices like the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS. Think pixel art can only be used to create stiff, ugly and antiquated-looking images? Think again! With sufficient talent, artists can create masterpieces like these. Pixel art is an exciting computer graphic design medium with lots of room for creativity, even with nothing more complicated than MS Paint!

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