Freelance Contracts
Share Hi all, While surfing forums and the like found a great free contract resource , over at WDF. This is a contract that I came up with several years ago, with the help of a lawyer [personal friend]. I didn’t want anything too technical or full of legal speak. Just wanted something simple, straightforward, [...]
7 Things To Consider When Starting As A Freelance Designer
Share Many just pick up and go when entering the freelancing world, but to ensure things go smoothly for everybody involved, there are a few considerations. Setting up a small studio, office or dedicated work area within your household; keeping the font police off your heels, invoicing and paying correct taxes etc are vital. Being [...]
5 Little Tips for Designers
Share These are more focused on just getting into what we perceive as good habits, and its always best to egt into good habits from early on! Some of these are somewhat obvious, maybe even dumb but its easy to forget the simple things. Hope they help. 1) Ensure that your client is pleased with [...]
5 Ways To Copyright Your Work
Share This post is a short extension and continuation and summary from a previous article: Importance of Copyrighting Your artwork - it would serve well to read this before reading the following, as good background knowledge. 1) Deviant Art By uploading your work to a personal gallery on deviant art, you can protect your work under [...]
Free Business Plan, Projected Balances and Expenses Templates
Share When we first began, a friend sent over some very nice business plan, asset, balance sheet, started up expenses etc type templates. You can use, edit these at your own discretion. Unfortunately, I do not know and cannot ascertain who created them, so am unable to give credit, where its due as these templates are [...]
When Meeting A Client as a freelance designer…
Share When first starting out, the prospect of going to meet a client to discuss the project and work through the nitty gritty details can be a little daunting. This little list is just some things to make sure you have the predictable bases covered: Firstly, I am just going to say remember that they [...]
Free Invoice, Receipt, T&C and Privacy Templates
Share Found these great templates, originally created by Traxor over on Web Designer Forum Invoice Template (*.PDF File) Receipt Template (*.PDF File) Thanks to Traxor Designs for the templates. Original Source
10 Tutorials and Resources to Help You Understand/ Implement Copywriting Techniques
Share Copywriting is the use of words to promote a person, business, opinion, or idea. Although the word copy may be applied to any content intended for printing (as in the body of a newspaper article or book), the term copywriter is generally limited to such promotional situations, regardless of media (as advertisements for print, [...]
How Do You Organise Yourself As A Freelance Designer?
Share This is more of a search for ideas and methods than an informative article. No matter how often I tidy and plan ahead, my desk after about 2 weeks always seems to revert back to the same crazy chaotic mess that it does. Trying to give everything that I have to do/ handle organised [...]
10 Resources and Tutorials to Understand and Create Corporate Identity
Share 1) How to create a strong corporate identity You need to decide what is the core proposition of the company; what you do and what you sell,he said. If you don’t know what the company stands for it is difficult to create an identity. You can come up with the funkiest identity but if [...]
10 Resources to Help You Decide What To Charge for Design Work
Share As website designers , we know all to well how difficult it can be to competitively price your work; we compiled the following list of resources to help us in our endeavors. 1) Design Talkboard: ‘How much to charge for Graphic Design’ in reality, freelance designers will need to research carefully and develop a [...]
10 Resources For The Starting Freelance Graphic Designer
Share 1) Register for tax! Source: CarolineMurphy.co.uk ‘I feel like a broken record when it comes to this subject, but a lot of people are either unaware or chose to ignore the fact that once you are self-employed /freelance in the UK, you must register with HM Revenue and Customs.’ 2) Contracts! Author: Jacci Howard [...]
Do you need a design degree to freelance?
Share How essential is a design degree to a designer? Having gone through the process of formal education in graphic design and illustration (and paid the accompanying expenses) Many designers have often had to ask themselves the question: ‘was it worth it?’ The simple fact is that, with the evolution of the internet to a [...]
Apr 12, 2009 | Categories: Commentary, Freelancing, Graphic Design, Illustration, News, Popular | Tags: degree, design, Freelance, Graphic Design, Illustration | 17 Comments »