Email design worthy of a forward

Your emails allow you to communicate with attention-grabbing graphics, evocative illustrations and clean design. Our artists are masters of the latest design trends, and they’ll create a professional email for your business that you’ll be proud to send to everyone on your list.

Get all this with your email design:

Multiple designers (who find you)

Our entire global design community will have access to your contest and will send you all sorts of creative design ideas, unique to your needs.
Everything you need feature highlighted
by Cross the Lime

Ready-to-go files and total freedom

Your new email design comes with production-ready files that are ready for your mail client. Plus, the copyright’s all yours.
10+ designers feature highlighted
by Martis Lupus

Satisfaction, guaranteed

We’ve got your back every step of the way. Don’t like your final email design options? You get 100% of your money back. It’s that simple.
100% money-back guarantee feature highlighted
by pmo

How an email design contest works

Create a design brief.

1. Tell us what you want

Our interactive creative brief makes it simple to describe your design challenge and set your budget.

Pick your winning design.

2. Get dozens of email designs

Our global community of professional email artists present their ideas. You provide feedback.

Get dozens of designs.

3. Pick your favorite

Seven days later, choose your winning email design. It's like picking your favorite child.

Send a blast from the present with email design

US$799
Adult, high achieving, growth oriented people looking for leadership and life skill courses.
41
entries
11
designers
US$299
The target audience for this message would be members of the Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) and
57
entries
16
designers
US$499
Vacant Landowners who want to build a new home also people who would like a new home that are financial able too.
64
entries
17
designers
US$299
My target audience is owners of shopping centers/retail properties in the Houston, Texas, market
20
entries
6
designers
We saved a spot for your Email Design Contest.
Get started now
US$499
AGE 40+ Household Income $150k+ United States/Canada People interested in the stock market
28
entries
11
designers
US$799
Families, couples, golf groups.
54
entries
13
designers
US$1,199
Connect buyers and sellers together in a safe marketplace.
81
entries
12
designers
US$1,199
Founders, potential hires
89
entries
11
designers
US$299
Baby boomers who are nearing retirement, Ages 50-60. They love golf and are looking for a snow-bird residence in the sou
52
entries
15
designers

Professional emails, no matter your budget

Promoting a new product? We can help with that. Or launching your first newsletter? We do that, too. Whatever you need, we’ve got fast, eye-catching email design from the pros. Prices exclude Sales Tax.

Bronze
US$299
Silver
US$499
Gold
US$799
Platinum
US$1,199
Design concepts (approx.)
Design concepts (approx.)
20
30
40
30
100% money-back guarantee
100% money-back guarantee
Full copyright ownership
Full copyright ownership
Mid & Top Level designers only
Mid & Top Level designers only
Top Level designers only
Top Level designers only
Dedicated manager
Dedicated manager
Prioritized support
Prioritized support

Your burning email design FAQs, answered.

All the design files you need to build your custom emails. Your email design will be uploaded in the correct formats to send to a developer. Typically this means a production-ready Adobe Photoshop (PSD), Adobe Illustrator (AI), PDF or EPS files.

Plus, you’ll get the full legal copyright, so the design will be all yours.

Please note that an Email Design Contest does not include any coding, so you will have to have the email converted to HTML to upload to your email client.
Yes. If you have any specific images (like a logo or product photography) that need to be included in your email, please submit them to designers with your brief.

Unless you request otherwise, your designer may also use stock images (purchased from a third party) in your design. If a designer uses stock art in a design, they’ll tell you which images they are and use watermarked versions of them in their entries. Once you choose the winning design, you’ll need to purchase the stock art and provide it to the winning designer so they can complete the design.
Absolutely (and we love it when that happens)! When your email design contest has finished, you can start a 1-to-1 project with your winning designer.
We guarantee that you’ll get great emails at any pricing level, but our higher-priced packages give you more design options and better support.

Here’s how it works: When you pay more, the prize for the winning designer is bigger, too. More experienced designers participate in your contest, so you get more high-quality designs to choose from. More options means additional time that's needed to review your designs. That’s why our Gold and Platinum packages offer dedicated managers to help streamline that process by writing creative briefs and giving your designers feedback.

When selecting your email design contest package, think about how much time you’ll have and what experience you have writing briefs and working with designers. If you're still unsure, contact us for a design consultation.
We offer a 100% money-back guarantee within 60 days of payment on all Email Design Contests, except those with a guaranteed prize and those that have entered the Final Round. You can also call us anytime to help you rewrite your brief, reopen your project to ensure you get a good result and help you pick a winning design. Remember, if we refund your contest, you aren’t legally entitled to use any of the designs submitted to your contest.
Lots of ideas! If you’re looking for inspiration, explore 99designs for fantastic examples of emails created by our design community.

Bring as many specifics as you can, too. Include information about your business, the type of email you’re looking to send, dimensions, designs you like, and any other specifications that would affect your design.

The more you give the designers, the better they can design custom emails for you.
Your custom email contest includes one winning email design. If, for example, you need a second template for your email, you have a few options: you can award multiple winners, run a second contest or you can start a 1-to-1 Project with your winning designer to create the additional assets.
On 99designs, designers agree to upload only original artwork, so each designer owns the rights to their design submissions until you choose your contest’s winner. During the design handover stage, the designer agrees to transfer the rights, and you become the owner of the copyright of that email.
Choose “Make your contest private” from the Contest options section before you launch your email design contest. This will prohibit designers from using their designs elsewhere, and your contest will be unsearchable on the web.

This will automatically attach a standard NDA template to your contest. If you prefer, you can also upload your own NDA.

Let's talk!

Our kind, happy and humble customer support team would love to answer your questions. Send us an email or call to speak with an actual human.