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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