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Freelancers - freelance logo designers

Are you a freelance logo designer with a great web site? Perhaps you have a site or service that might be of interest to freelance designers, or those thinking about starting out on their own. Want to list your piece of the web? It's easy - Tell us about it here.

BoDo - Business of Design Online
BoDo is where freelancer designers can come for practical business advice. Maybe you’ve already made a range of expensive mistakes. Maybe you are trying to avoid the possibilities. No prob, your mistakes are us. BoDo is grass roots, get down and dirty, love-yo-mamma. We’ll talk about serious subjects such as “When to bring in a PITA clause,” “How to keep your clients” and “How to fire a client.” As well as lighter fare like “Working in your undies” and “How to tell when your down time is up.”

Organizing Your Design Business
What software you do use (or need, or want) to run your design business? Share your recommendations, or just find out what others are using. I’m not talking about actual production software like Photoshop, but rather the supporting software to handle “all that other stuff.”

Freelance Designers
FreelanceDesigners is an international directory of 1,000s of active freelance web designers, web site developers, graphic designers, flash designers, photographers, writers and search engine specialists. You can also find great web design firms and small companies that offer many design services. To find a designer in your area, just click a color tab for the appropriate business category then chose your state on the map.

Interview with a Freelancer
With over 6 years' experience in Website design, Cindy Chong decided to leave the corporate environment and become a freelance designer in May this year, starting her own business as 72dpi pixelartist. What made her choose this path? How has she managed her business? Who are her clients? How is her time and personal life managed? Cindy tells us all this and more...

Is Freelance Design the right career for you?
So you think you want to start your own business? Friends tell you that you've got a flair for making good-looking business cards and fliers. You've got an inkjet printer and an old copy of QuarkXPress. You're ready to start getting paid for doing something you enjoy. Wait! First, find out if a freelance business is the right move for you. Successful freelancing requires more than artistic talent or software proficiency. If a desktop publishing or graphic design business are your goal those are needed skills; but, first determine that you have the personality required to work for yourself.

Project Management for the Freelance Designer
You can ask anyone in the creative services industry, everyone at one time or another has had the client from hell. The difference between the good clients and bad clients isn't actually all that great. Most clients are demanding, and what all the projects done yesterday. In my experience good clients and bad clients will push you to do your best work. It's the approach the client takes that makes them feel like the "monster" client. Some clients can be micro-managers, asking you to change the design until it look's like a pile of horse puke, other clients can give you no direction at all yet hate everything you produce. The only constant factor in this equation is you. After working on multi-million accounts with large advertising agencies all the project problems seem to have a common thread...

Freelancer Network
(UK) Freelancers.net has been helping freelancers find work and clients find freelancers since 1999. Freelancers.net is UK focused and listsmany jobs and projects open to UK freelancers, however clients from across the globe use Freelancers.net regularly to source freelancers outside of the UK.

Creative Freelancers Online
Directory & representation of freelance web designers, illustrators, programmers, photographers,creatives of all types. FREE Listings for professionals. Classified ads. Portfolios. Talent Search area links toportfolios. Makes finding the right freelancer easy. Advertising, sales promotion,architectural,editorial, book, charts, maps, & technical areas.

Freelance design - related pages from our website

Online Logo Design - The McLogo Effect
Using the Internet to advertise your design firm is great. Alas, as competition has heated up, so has the rhetoric involved in the marketing of logo design services via the web. As clients wander from site to site, they're sure to bump into some seemingly impossible promises and sales pitches.

Online Design Marketing
As a freelance designer, whether or not you publish a design blog as part of your online marketing day-to-day is a decision that only you can make. A freelance design blog has some very real advantages in promoting your budding practice, but some downfalls in the upkeep department.

Bad Designer - No Donut
While a majority of our flash logo animation projects involve logos that we’ve designed at the shop, we also do quite a bit of animation using freelance logos that we didn’t design. We work with quite a few video production houses, as well as one-one-one with clients who have had their logo created somewhere else. Most of the time there’s no issue with using outside material, but once in a while - wow - I’m amazed at what passes off for file prep these days.

Why you don't want the logo design gig
We all love designing logos for clients, and it can be one of the most rewarding freelance challenges of the graphic design field. Not always a bed of roses though, and sometimes gigs go south, leaving the client and designer with a nasty vibe about the entire logo design process. Some failed logo projects are a result of the old maxim “Can’t please all the people, all the time”. Others, not so much.

Logo design - what not to do
Accordingly, thought we’d expand on our common mistakes and logo design tips, taking a look at things that freelance designers might do that will utterly ruin, destroy, wreck and bastardize a potentially decent logo attempt. I’ve tried (you can judge how successfully) to write this with both freelance designers and clients in mind. So without further ado, we present 10 things NOT to do when designing your next logo

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