Questions tagged [freelance]
Questions about work while self-employed and not committed to a particular employer long-term. Freelancers are sometimes represented by a company or an agency that resells their labor and that of others to its clients with or without project management and labor contributed by its regular employees. Others are completely independent. "Independent contractor" would be the term used in a higher register of English.
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What price should I charge for design services?
I was hoping I would find some people in the industry that could help me decide what's the best price to charge to design (in this case) business cards.
What are standard prices for professional ...
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How can I write requirements for a graphic designer?
A friend of mine is in need of some graphic design work. I'm trying to explain to him that his make-me-something-like-X-but-different-approach is not a very good way to communicate his needs. We tried ...
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What should I do if a potential client claims my pricing is too high?
I gave a possible client a price estimation for concept of a character, and making it 3D as well.
Now I find out that my estimation is double what he is paying his current artists. He never mentioned ...
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What should be in a job contract?
Inspired by the great answers from this question, what are things you would include in a graphic design job contract?
Are there items or conditions you would have in a freelance contract that aren't ...
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What are some good ways to gain practical experience to add to my portfolio?
I passed the ACE exams for InDesign and Photoshop a few months ago, but I am stumbling on how to get practical experience.
I have a couple of years of news page design, and a very small number of ...
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Why was my experience with a logo contest so miserable?
I'm starting out as a freelance designer (and no job experience at any company before) and I decided to join "contests" held by freelancer.com's users.
I've joined several of them already and I can ...
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Copyright on free work
About a year ago when starting out on graphic design in school I started doing a bit of free work (something I'm not doing any longer) for a 'client' here and there.
For this one client I provided a ...
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How can a designer explain their work to non-creative people?
One issue I face personally is how can I, as a designer, effectively explain my work to potential clients or people that do not have a creative side. I know how to explain what software or process was ...
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Client wants me to teach them InDesign
My client wants me to teach them how to do basic editing in InDesign.
This is after, against my better judgement, I had agreed to give them the source files of the documents I created in favor of ...
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What if client doesn't like any logo design concept?
I'm in a process of creating Graphic Design contract. I've decided to provide each client with 3 logo concepts and 3 rounds of revision. Ideally, I would create 3 concepts and client will chose one, ...
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Do you expect a client to pay for a design they don't like?
Situation: a long time client (at this point I've done consistent work for them for about two years) just messaged me saying they do not want me to bill them for the last design I did because it was ...
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What can a designer do if a client claims that the work delivered is unacceptable and refuses to pay?
I recently had an experience with a client that was a bit messy, and now they don't want to pay for the work I did.
They needed some presentation decks, one of which needed to be editable (text to ...
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Advice when hiring a freelancer for creating a company logo
I'm about to hire a freelancer to create a logo for my IT consulting company. My personal thoughts:
The logo will be vector based as I might need to use it at different sizes.
It should look good in ...
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Where can I find web design projects?
I am a recently graduated graphic designer. I would like to know if there are any worthwhile websites that I could present my portfolio and receive or look for job offers.
I have came across the ...
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Do you need permission to use your own work when working for an agency?
For the past year I have been working for an agency as an intern. It is now the end and I want to build a portfolio of the work I have done.
Do I need the agency's permission to use the work I ...
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How should a designer communicate price is negotiable to a client?
While in the stages of a bid, quote, or proposal I was curious how should a designer communicate "price is negotiable" in a professional manner instead of stating the simple fact. I know it's ...
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How do I know when I'm ready to start doing professional work?
I was searching around and I found this question here talking about how a designer knows when thier work is 'good'; and it has a lot of crucial information.
My question is almost an extension to this:...
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How to manage working for friends or family
I'd like to see peoples opinions and methods for managing jobs for family or friends.
Just to clarify, I mean singular freelance jobs. Actual employment would be something different altogether in my ...
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What are common non-traditional Graphic Design requests, and how to handle them?
Naturally you would expect that a graphic designer is proficient in logo, print and web graphics, but what else do clients commonly request? (Web, email, motion graphics, 3D animation etc...)
I've ...
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How should a designer handle the request to repurpose a design?
Scenario:
You design a piece for Company A. The piece performs very well for Company A. So much so that they use the piece for several years.
Eventually Company A shuts down.
A few years later, you ...
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What to ask client before designing a logo?
What questions do you ask a client before designing their logo? (preferred colour, font, references, etc) And how do you do it exactly? Do you use a template PDF questionnaire/Word doc/Google doc ...
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Do I own the rights to show my designs in my portfolio?
I was hired as a freelancer to do some work for a company. I made a design that I love which included some of the company's data within it. I asked to put it on my portfolio and they got very ...
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Should I charge less for being a freelance entry level graphic designer?
I've been told that this company has paid others $40/hr. This would be my first work at a professional level. They've already seen my portfolio, and love my work- and have had trouble finding someone ...
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Usage costs for logo animation intro / outro template
As a freelancer I recently produced three web animations for a client.
The company has just rebranded and I've been asked to create an animated logo intro / outro template (that's 2 x concepts, ...
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Software to invoice clients [closed]
I'm looking for some apps to create your invoices which I want is simple and free (such as up to 10 invoices a month) can be managed and organized the invoices online.
I have a good one in my ...
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Help with Microsoft Powerpoint templates and themes
I am working in a commercial agency. At times clients need custom Powerpoint templates and themes. We don’t have people in our agency with enough skill and knowledge for this kind of job, and few have ...
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Making web hosting plan payments?
I'm a web designer freelancer. I just started freelancing. What is the best process for web hosting plan payments? Do I sign up for web hosting plan myself using my credit card and collect payments ...
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