This document provides guidelines for submitting design work to be featured on Resource for Graphic Design. Designers can submit individual projects or interviews. Options include an article on the website, social media posts, and paid additions like extended social media coverage or a website takeover. Requirements include high resolution images, project details, and crediting all contributors. The process involves acknowledgement of receipt, review, questions to the designer, writing the article, creating assets, scheduling posts, and a newsletter highlight if applicable. Not all submissions are selected but a response is provided on the status.
This document provides guidelines for submitting design work to be featured on Resource for Graphic Design. Designers can submit individual projects or interviews. Options include an article on the website, social media posts, and paid additions like extended social media coverage or a website takeover. Requirements include high resolution images, project details, and crediting all contributors. The process involves acknowledgement of receipt, review, questions to the designer, writing the article, creating assets, scheduling posts, and a newsletter highlight if applicable. Not all submissions are selected but a response is provided on the status.
This document provides guidelines for submitting design work to be featured on Resource for Graphic Design. Designers can submit individual projects or interviews. Options include an article on the website, social media posts, and paid additions like extended social media coverage or a website takeover. Requirements include high resolution images, project details, and crediting all contributors. The process involves acknowledgement of receipt, review, questions to the designer, writing the article, creating assets, scheduling posts, and a newsletter highlight if applicable. Not all submissions are selected but a response is provided on the status.
This document provides guidelines for submitting design work to be featured on Resource for Graphic Design. Designers can submit individual projects or interviews. Options include an article on the website, social media posts, and paid additions like extended social media coverage or a website takeover. Requirements include high resolution images, project details, and crediting all contributors. The process involves acknowledgement of receipt, review, questions to the designer, writing the article, creating assets, scheduling posts, and a newsletter highlight if applicable. Not all submissions are selected but a response is provided on the status.
If you’re looking to submit your design work, you’re in the right place. The next six pages detail the options available to you and our submission requirements. If you’re submitting multiple projects, For typeface submissions, please check the branding for yourself or would like to out our Typeface guidelines. If you would showcase your company in more detail, like to promote your own product or brand, please consider our Interview guidelines. please refer to our Product guidelines.
Page 02 Website
Article If we love your project, we will write and publish an article about it on our website for free. It will be displayed on our homepage for a minimum of three days, and exist within our chronological index page forever; allowing your work to be seen, searched for and saved. You will also be added to our directory page, which lists all of the creatives that have been featured within our articles. For more info on our processes, see pages 07-08.
Free
Instagram Story, Twitter, Facebook
and LinkedIn Posts included*
*Most selected projects are also shared to our new Pinterest account. Page 03 Extend Your Reach Choosing one or more of the four paid add- 1 x Instagram Post 3 x Instagram Posts
ons to the right options will guarantee even One Instagram carousel post or reel* Three Instagram posts – usually two
more attention and recognition for your published on the same day as the carousel posts and one reel* – published
work by allowing it to reach significantly article about your project. over 5-7 days from the date of the article.
more designers, agencies and companies.
These options are only available for the
submissions we have already decided
to write and publish an article about.
It is not pay-to-play. For more info on
our processes, see page 07-08.
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*Most reels are also shared to our new TikTok account. Page 04 Submission Image Format and Size
We can use jpg, webp, png and mp4 files with a minimum Project Description
Please provide as much information as possible about the
Requirements width of 2000px. Any image ratio is fine, however, please project, design concept, client and yourself (if we don’t know provide at least one 3:2 image for the article cover image on you already). We will also ask you a series of questions to help our website. Images should be sent through a download us find out more about the project, so if you don’t have link, zip file or a link to the project online. If you are sharing anything prepared, that’s okay. specific assets for Instagram, we prefer 4:5.
01 02 Contributor Credits The Edit
Please let us know every little detail, from typefaces, papers We currently publish 12 articles per week, but receive hundreds and suppliers to photographers, illustrators and animators. of submissions. This means that not every project we like can be Most of the creatives, assets or companies involved in the featured in its own article. To make up for this, we publish five projects we publish are added to our website’s directory page, projects at a time with our fortnightly article series called The Edit. further helping their work get noticed. Projects chosen for this series are not those we like ‘less,’ but usually those with less imagery or information available. The add- ons from page 04 are not available, as it is an article-only feature.
03 04 Page 05 To share your project with
us, please email Layla at:
[email protected] When submitting, please let us know if you are interested in any of the paid add-ons from page 04 as we will usually prioritise your project if selected. However, please recognise that it is not pay-to-play, so they do not guarantee you will be featured.
Page 06 The Process Behind a Submission is received at [email protected] One of our writers, Poppy or Harry, will write the article as soon as possible; drawing upon the supplied information Successful Submission Our Operations Director Layla replies to acknowledge that and the answers to our questions to create an original story. it has been received, usually within a few days. She then Once the article has been written, it is moved to the ‘Review’ adds it to the ‘New’ column in our Notion planner, filling in column in Notion all of the necessary details and links, ready for review. She also saves the assets for the submission to the ‘New’ folder Elliott reviews the text, checking its accuracy, grammar in our Google Drive and flow. Once the article is ready to go, it is moved to the ‘Schedule’ column in Notion Our Founder & Creative Director Elliott checks the submission over in detail, and if successful, moves it to Our Content Assistant Oli takes over to create the assets the ‘Approved’ sections in Notion and Google Drive. He for the article and social media posts, utilising a series then writes questions for the designer or studio behind the of processes and templates we have built in Figma, project to make sure we have all of the information we need Photoshop and After Effects. Oli then builds the article in to write the article and make it as insightful as possible. our website’s CMS, combining the assets with the article Unsuccessful submissions are removed from the ’New’ text in an intuitive order. He also adds all of the credits to column :( sorry! Some ‘Approved’ submissions are moved the article, linking them to our directory page if relevant, to the section for our series called The Edit (see page 05) and adds the necessary tags to allow the article to be found via the options in our search page. Next, he schedules the Layla replies if the submission has been successful, social media posts and writes the captions, using Later. sharing the questions written by Elliott and the prices of He also builds our weekly newsletter in Mailchimp, including the paid add-on options that are available, as well as other the designers and studios that opted for the ‘Newsletter small details or requests. The submission is then moved to Highlight’ add-on the ‘Waiting’ column in Notion while, you guessed it, we wait for a response Elliott runs though a final check on everything, and then moves the submission to the ‘Done’ column in Notion When the response is received, Layla adds all of the additional information to the submission’s Notion page, To conclude the process, Layla, Poppy or Harry send and moves it to the ‘In progress’ column. out a preview and publish date for the feature via email.
Page 07 Frequently Asked How do you choose what to feature?
We currently publish 12 articles per week, with around eight
Do I need to pay to be featured?
No, if we love your project we will publish an article about it on
Questions of those being project features. We receive more than 200 our website for free. In order to maintain the consistency and submissions in that time, so, it can be rather difficult to choose. quality of our curation, we select from our submissions without However, we’ve built our platform and reputation on quality, any financial influence. Our platform is not pay-to-play. The paid not quantity, so we have to be brutal and stick to our guns. Our add-ons are optional. However, we do usually prioritise features selection process is based on a balance of intuition, taste and that have opted for paid add-ons, as we are a profit-making variety. We generally do not choose projects to feature based business with salaries and bills to pay, after all. Furthermore, on the reputation of the submitting studio or their client. it is not possible to pay to override our selection process.
Can I see the feature before it’s published?
Why should I pay for the add-ons?
Yes, Layla, Poppy or Harry will share a preview in advance of Since 2015, we have built a reputation as one of, if not the, the feature being published. Feedback is always welcome and most respected platforms and resources for graphic design- we love to collaborate to make the feature the best it can be. based content. Being featured has been described as “notoriously difficult.” We have an audience of more than 650,000 individuals (see page 09) that look to us for our curation and insights. Our features have helped designers and studios to increase their reputation, grow their following, get new clients and find new employees (see page 10).
We do not operate like a traditional media platform, you will
find no intrusive banner ads from big brands that mean nothing How long does it take to be featured? to us or you across our platforms. We value curation, quality and From the date of the submission being received to it being consistency over everything else. We only work with designers, published, two-three weeks is realistic. However, please let studios and companies that we think can bring something to us know if you have a date in mind that you’d like to align the our audience, and vice versa. Your choice to pay for the add-ons feature with. We are more likely to be able to prioritise features not only extends the reach of your feature and access to the that have opted for paid add-ons, but we’ll always do our best potential benefits mentioned above and on page 10, but to match your timeline. supports our team, growth and continuous desire to improve.
3m Instagram impressions per week Australasia Top audience locations 7%
Male Female 18-34 35+ Desktop Mobile
35+
Audience gender Audience age range Website traffic by device type
Page 09 Our Impact*
90% 70% 40% 60% of featured designers and studios increased of featured designers and studios feel
their social media followers and website traffic. that they received industry recognition.
of featured designers and studios received
of featured designers and studios received
leads or commissions for paid client work. enquiries from creatives to join their team.
*Stats are based on a survey undertaken by 47 featured designers and studios in April 2023. Page 10 Testimonials “It really helped to boost our social presence and also got us a few leads on some new work.”
Ryan Vincent, Co-founder of Perth-
based design office Gesture Systems
“The interview we did had a big
impact. It’s also a great material to send to potential clients!”
Carlos Kun, Co-founder of
Barcelona-based studio Twoo
Page 11 Thank you! “The Brand Identity is the only design site I actually care about.” Garrett DeRossett, Co-founder of New York-based agency Alright Studio
