(EMAILWIRE.COM, May 01, 2012 ) Berlin, Germany -- Startup founders, freelancers and small and medium sized companies will benefit from tailored and affordable solutions to their creative needs.
Thanks to this partnership, clients of 12designer shall access iStock’s huge database of professional imagery and use it for their graphic designs. And iStock clients will be able to enjoy 12designer’s professional services for design needs under privileged conditions.
"Normally, our clients wouldn´t consider hiring a design agency due to budgeting reasons", said Dittmar Frohmann, Director International Product of Getty Images, iStock’s parent company. "Using the cooperation with 12designer, we’re now able to offer them an alternative for creative services, therefore ensuring that our imagery receives a proper and professional representation".
"We strive for a long-term partnership with iStock, because both sites are aimed at the same target groups", said Eva Missling, founder and CEO of 12designer.com. "Our clients just love the easy and affordable solutions crowdsourcing is able to provide them - that’s why we think iStockphoto is the perfect partner. Not least, iStockphoto has brought crowdsourcing to the photography market more than ten years ago, and their imagery continues to rock".
About 12designer:
12designer provides a creative marketplace where offers and demands of design and communication work meet. Logo, flyer design, naming strategies, slogans, commercial banners, websites or promotional videos: client publishes a project and sets a price, the creatives send their proposals in an open competition and the client buys the one they like the most. A 20,000+ creative community is ready for the test. Founded by Eva Missling, 12designer operates in the German market since March 2009, has five European language versions and is established in Berlin.
About iStockphoto:
iStockphoto offers more than 10 million affordable, royalty-free pictures, videos, graphics and audio & flash® files. Every second a new image is uploaded. iStock was founded in 2000 and introduced in the picture world an innovative micro-payment structure. Headquarters are based in Calgary, Canada, and it’s a 100% subsidiary company of Getty Images. Since October 2008 European HQ are ba sed in Berlin, Germany.
