Canva, the Aussie-led graphic design start-up, has reported its biggest year of growth with 60 million people joining the platform over the last 12 months.
The graphic design platform, which turned 10 this year, has attracted more than 170 million people in total across 190 different countries.
Canva’s community has created over 20 billion designs – up from 15 billion in February this year – which the team at Canva said is the equivalent of 280 designs every second, 16,000 every minute, or one million each hour.
This year Canva launched a slew of new products and AI with their Magic Studio product that resizes, transforms, and translates designs. The platform’s AI product has been more than 4 billion times and placed second from Apple for their AI app of the year.
The platform is also empowering the education space as it supports more than 60 million students and teachers to unlock their creativity and achieve their goals through programs such as Canva for Education, Canva for Campus, Canva for Districts, and a new suite of educator products bringing customised lessons, student-safe AI products, and thousands of free resources to classrooms across the globe.
Canva also partnered with the University of California to bring the platform to more than 500,000 students and faculty across the university’s network.
The Canva team now 4,000 employees worldwide and has launched new offices in Melbourne, Austin and London.
Canva founder Melanie Perkins launched the company in 2013 in a bid to make design accessible to all people. The company is currently valued at $39 million.