The Hatchwise Blog
News and inspiration for entrepreneurs and creatives, plus updates on new developments at Hatchwise.
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September 6, 2019
Recent Startup Trends
When 2018 ended, there were many speculations about what trends would appear in 2019. Logo trends, tech trends, and, the topic of today, start-up trends, are all trends that the public was curious to see what would happen to as we entered the new year. It turns out, 2019 lived up to all the expectations […]
September 4, 2019
Logo Trends of 2019
We are officially more than halfway into 2019 and let me tell you, the logo trends we’ve seen so far are some of the best yet. With bright, original, and creative logos filling the business world, we’ve got some pretty significant trends going so far. These trends are taking the business world by storm and […]
July 15, 2017
Scheduled downtime for 7/17/17
Hatchwise will be offline at around 9 PM EST on Sunday the 16th Monday the 17th, for about an hour (although possibly several hours or more for some users based on where they are located.) as we perform a scheduled update. All active contests will be extended by 24 hours at no charge to make […]
March 30, 2016
Community Logo Design Contest: Redesign the Rhode Island State Logo – $1000 prize
On March 28th, Rhode Island unveiled its new logo, part of a $5M marketing campaign. Despite the fact that the logo was designed by Milton Glaser, a renowned designer previously responsible for the ILoveNY logo, among others, response has been largely negative, with some going as far as describing the logo as “embarrassing“. Hatchwise is located right […]
August 10, 2012
Hatchwise scheduled maintenance for 8/11 at 9 am EST
This is a quick note to let everyone know that on Saturday 8/11 we will be taking Hatchwise offline for a little while as we migrate to a new server. We plan to start around 9 AM EST and hopefully everything will be back to normal within a few hours, although it is possible it […]
April 6, 2010
Hatchwise featured in article about logo design in April issue of Inc Magazine
There was much excitement around the office today when upon checking the mail, we got our copy of the April issue of Inc Magazine, and found out that Hatchwise had been included in an article about logo design. The article chronicles small business owner Steve Whitesell’s journey to develop a new brand for his company, […]
February 5, 2010
PayPal reversing payments to and from India
PayPal has notified us that they are currently blocking payments to and from India. This resulted in several of the designers that got paid on the first not receiving their funds. Once PayPal returns the denied funds to us (they have not yet done so) we will credit the amount back to the appropriate accounts […]
December 19, 2009
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Hello from the freezing state of New York! Seriously, it’s cold here, really cold. It was -7 degrees out the other day. Here at Hatchwise we’re actually hoping that Santa leaves coal in our stockings so that we can burn it and cut down on the heating bill. Seriously, though, we’ve had a GREAT year. […]
October 7, 2009
Updated contest holder accounts make commenting and rating designs way easier
We recently added a new feature to contest holder accounts that enables contest holders to rate and review designs without leaving the main contest page, this should make reviewing designs a lot easier and hopefully result in more designers getting feedback. Next project to be completed: Design Court, where YOU get to judge entries that […]
August 13, 2009
eLogoContest is now HatchWise! (plus: run all types of design contests!)
Hello! I’m very excited to announce something that has been a long time in the works – a name change for eLogoContest and the addition of a bunch of new types of design contests. Ever since we launched in 2008, we have constantly had contest holders contact us asking if they could run other types […]