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10 Things to Keep In Mind when you’re “Hunting” For a Designer
by Ovi Dogar
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"Yesterday, I was browsing through some online marketing forums. I’ve realized that many newcomers to the online business have no idea what are the things they should look for when they select their next designer.
So, here are the top 10 criteria for a smooth and successful design project.
1. Ask around Always ask you friends for recommendations. Chances are that someone that did a great job for your friends will do the same for you.
2. Look for someone that has a big portfolio displayed on his site Many samples mean that the designer has many clients and a lot of work done in his past. Design is a continually learnable skill so the more you work, the better you are.
This will lead us to the next criteria:
3. Work experience Look for someone that has at least 5 years of experience in the field. Anything less and you’ll have an amateur to deal with.
4. See how the portfolio is designed This will tell if the designer takes pride in his work. A lousy presentation of otherwise awesome designs is a big no, no.
5. Make sure that you like his style Nothing is worse than to work with someone that has different preferences compared to yours. Don’t you trust me? Ignore this tip and you’ll see for yourself.
6. Ask for references Contact the designer’s references. This is the best way to find out how well they handle the pressures of deadlines and how well they work independently or in a team environment.
7. Make sure that his work is suitable with what you need Designing for web is different than designing for print. An awesome looking image on the computer screen might be a total failure when printed. Always ask the designer if he will be able to provide you with images suitable for what you need.
8. Does he provide the images required for your design? Or do you have to purchase them separately? You might close a great first looking deal, only to find out later that you have to pay extra for the images used in the design. These can add pretty quickly to the expenses line.
9. Does he have the rights to use the images he’s using? If not, you might be opening the Pandora’s Box when you hire him. Should you settle for something cheap and then look back with fear over your shoulder for the rest of your life?
10. Location This is important for bigger projects. You might want to hire someone that lives in the same city with you if you need him to work closely with your team. Otherwise, you might want to consider someone that lives overseas.
Because of lower life costs in poorer countries, many skilled designers will work for much less than a local designer. This is one of the reasons a higher price doesn’t necessarily mean a better design.
Perhaps, you should find out for yourself with the best quality/price ratio by checking out my AbsoluteCovers.com site "
Ovi Dogar may be contacted at http://www.absolutecovers.com
Ovi Dogar is specialized in the creation of professionally custom made covers that really sell. You can view some recent samples of his work at AbsoluteCovers.com
If you are a Photoshop guru, then you are probably always on the lookout for new free Photoshop stuff. Well, we try to do that legwork for you. On this page you will find a nice roundup of free Photoshop pattern sites. Click through to these sites and download some of those free patterns. Have fun.
A collection of Typography blogs & resources, Typography articles, Typography showcases, and Typography tools and then categorized them for you in this article.
I have collected the top Photoshop Logo Design tutorials online and listed them for you below. There are also plenty of Web 2.0 Logo Design tutorials as well.
This part II of a never-ending series of the coolest outside ads, billboards, and public advertising.
Best Clever & Unique Billboards and Outdoor Advertising I have found tons of the coolest billboards, outdoor advertising, and transit ads ever. I am listing many of them today but I have found many others (and I am still searching for more) that I will list soon. I am listing them in a gallery [...]
This is part II of a multiple part series of the coolest logo designs. You can use this list as a source of logo inspiration or just look at it because it is fun to do.
Within this article, I am going to detail the ?six steps? that I took to design the logo for the ?Seventh Congress of Zoos and Aquariums?
I saw some really beautiful logos today so I thought that I would share some with you and then make a series out the idea. This is part I of a multiple part series of the coolest logo designs. You can use this list as a source of logo inspiration or just look at it because it is fun to do. Either way, enjoy the following list of beautiful / cool logo designs.
This is the 4th part of our Coolest Business Card series. This time, we are including the printer (when we can find out the information) who printed these business cards.
This article was written by the very talented, Mark Misenheimer of Misenheimer Creative, Inc. Mark is an expert freelance graphic designer who has been in the design business for years. He has documented the design of a logo from start to finish in order to help other graphic designers. I know that you will learn something from this tremendous logo design article.
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The Clipart.com collection of more than 10 million royalty-free clipart images, photos, illustrations, fonts, sounds and Web graphics provides creative professionals with the most choice at the best price. With a Clipart.com subscription, you pay one fee and download what you need.
Sep 1Huge Roundup of Typography Blogs, Resources, Articles, Galleries, & Tools
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May 27A New and More Accurate Search Engine for Finding Free Clipart
As graphic designers, we are always on the hunt for quality free clipart images to use in our designs. The problem is that often searching for clipart often brings back very inaccurate search results. Well, thanks to one of my friends, I have found a new site called Find Free Clipart which will make my life much easier the next time I search for clipart online.
Apr 26Podcast for Freelance Graphic Designers
Lindsay Marsh, owner of Marsh Graphic Design has created several audio and video podcasts she calls the Freelancer. They cover various topics related to the freelance graphic designer. She plans on doing these pretty regularly and from what we see there is a lot of potential here. I suggest you check them out. The [...]
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A Superb Guide to Designing With Black Many of the people who visit All Graphic Design are Graphic Designers and many of you are Web Designers. If you are a Graphic Designer, than you most likely know that many things can go wrong when sending your files to be printed. For one thing, colors never look [...]
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Find Out if You are a Lousy, No Good Graphic Designer Hey, I bet you think you are the best Graphic Designer around, don't you?! Well, if you are brave enough, you should take a look at an article which will hit you where it hurts (if you are doing any of the 13 tell tale [...]
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Examples of Good Graphic Design Portfolios This is a post on Astheria Design Blog that is in response to a previous post called "?My Last Portfolio Sucked, Yours Might Too"?. This articles includes pictures and links to Design portfolios that were designed with a goal in mind. All of these design portfolios have one thing in [...]
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Some Online Printing Services I've Used - Personal Commercial Printers Review Whether you are a Graphic Designer or a Web Designer, we all need to use commercial printing services every once in a while. All freelancers, in fact, need to use printing services to print items such as business cards, printing labels, envelopes, letterhead, marketing materials, [...]
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Should Graphic Designers Use Design Elements in Their Resume? I have always been told that utilizing design within a resume is the wrong thing to do, Graphic Designer or not. So when I saw this article title, it caught my eye and I had to read more. However, the author of this article doesn't agree with [...]
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List of 120+ Free Adobe Photoshop Actions for Cool Designs I was excited when I found this huge list of free Adobe Photoshop actions, and I am guessing that you will be excited as well. Actions are the best way to speed up Photoshop tasks that you do on a regular basis, such as change an [...]
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Logo Design Trends for Graphic Designers in 2008 As a Graphic Designer, you might not think that trends are important when it comes to designing a logo. However, as you can see if you look at design archives, the art of Graphic Design changes. As a designer, you will need to keep on top of these [...]
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Web Design: Print and Product Marketingp
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My Industry: Computer Building We need to redo our website. the site will have approximately 6-7 pages and is a custom computer building site. We would like to have flash and E-Commerce. ? Client is in Smithfield, PA
Website Redesign for Radio Station
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Website Redesign for Comic
Number of pages (approx):9 My Industry: Entertainment industry Currently, there are 6 pages. I want to eliminate one, and then add 3 to 5 new pages. I don't think I'll need any new graphics, but I'l? Client is in Los Angeles, CA
Logo Design for Artisan Chocolatier
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Logo Design for New Website
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