Graphic Designer is an artist who designs his artistic work like art, painting, photography, typography and computer design software. To become a graphic designer, he must have good interpersonal skills and ability to sell the ideas to the clients. It is preferred to have drawing experience if possible to develop the knowledge of art. Most companies choose the graphic designers with appropriate degree and experience.
Graphic design has started to prevail a lot and many people instead of going to an office for work, opt to do freelancing and they really earn good cash. To be independent in the business, first and foremost part is communicating and starts working with small business owners on project basis or day to day basis. By doing freelance jobs the person will not have the traveling difficulty and save time and energy by working from home. Nowadays the demand for graphic designers has been increasing.
A freelance graphic designer job can be an exhilarating experience and sometimes stressful also. The main requirement to become a successful freelance graphic designer is to build a good portfolio which will impress the employer or the client.
To have a work place separately is very much necessary. Through online resources the freelancers can do the project work according to their area of expertise. By listing the name and contact details online the freelance graphic designer will be able to get clients. Some of the cost effective methods of advertising on freelancing are as follows:
Easiest and cheapest form of advertising is through word of mouth.
To have a well designed portfolio on hand.
For doing a freelance graphic design work the most essential things are the computer and the internet connection. Both hardware and software must be considered by the freelancer. Appropriate memory, graphics card to process graphic files, and processor are to be considered while purchasing a computer.
A. Make your next Graphic Design Job Your Last
How to retire wealthy in a few easy steps
We've all dreamed of spending our working days reclinining back in a deck chair eating cheese sandwiches on an overcast summers day. But then we remember the mortgage/kids/wifes $500 a day drug habit and our fantasies turn to dust. Here at www.mindtap.co.uk we show in 5 easy steps how you can quit that lousy Graphic Design job and spend the rest of your life living in easy street.
Step 1: Think yourself in a better place and low and behold it will happen
This is your first step towards financial freedom. Imagine if you will yourself sat upon a huge pile of money, flinging it in the air with gay abandon and why not? Forget the graphic designer career you had mapped out. Let's join the idle rich instead.
Step 2: Tell the boss what you think of him and burn those bridges!
Now its time to get some payback. Remember the time your design studio manager had you stay late and manually key in that 1oo page farming brochure text by hand and then laughed at you in your face? Right, we'll show him who's boss. A good way to be forcibly removed from the office and earn some extra kudos from your fellow graphic design employees is to take a dump and leave it festering away in a drawer in the bosses desk.Just wait for his reaction when he smells that sick stunt. You're history.
Step 3: When you hit rock bottom the only way is up, up and away
No job = No money right? A spot of domestic violence after hitting the bottle is usually enough encouragement. Hey Presto, one more tiresome burdon off your back!
Step 4: Remember keep your vision and your dreams will come true
At every stage in this degenerate journey, never lose sight of that image we visuallised in step one of yourself sitting astride a huge pile of banknotes. Think hard about your previous day to day life, was there someone in your remote family or circle of friends who had a large stash of cash readily disposable? It's time to pay them a visit with cap in hand.
Step 5: Invest wisely and you can say hello to a life of wanton abandon
Now after securing your large sum of cash from your chosen aquaintence, its prudent not to blow it all in one go on 200ft gold statues of yourself or buying an amusement park complete with zoo. Property for example is 'as safe as houses' or maybe put it all in a high interest savings account.
B. How to Get a Job as a Graphic Designer
"Hi.. Thanks!"
Which got me thinking about how difficult it was for me and some of the fellow graphic design students I studied with to get a job in the design industry back in 1999 (yes that long ago!) straight out of design college. I snapped up a job with a Central London design agency in Soho within 2 weeks of leaving college but looking back it wasn't really the right job for me then. Though just 13 months later I changed positions and worked for a great design agency based in London Bridge and learned a huge amount as well as working on lots of different types of projects as a designer.
Anyway competition was fierce then BUT the amount of graphic design and other design courses available in art colleges and universities up and down the college has grown hugely since then.
So here are a few tips on (like Adam asked) "how to get into the UK Design industry"
The Portfolio:
Having a great design portfolio is a must. Think about the kind of work the agency your applying to does and try to tailor your portfolio towards that. For example if they specialise in corporate identity and branding work try to include work of this kind.
Be ready to talk about your design work, what inspired you, why you approached the project in the way you did, even choice of typeface, colours, imagery etc. Show them some of your sketchs and development work, some agencies what to see your scribbles more than the finished work as it shows your design process and how you think!
Before taking your portfolio along to job interviews, make sure you show it to a people (tutors, other design students) talk them through it, get them to ask you questions about your design work and respond with suitable answers.
Work Experience:
Offer to do some work experience with a design company who's work you really admire (for free if you have to!), even if its just a week then spend that week wowing them, making the tea, producing great work, take an interest in everything relating to that design company. If the company really like you during your work experience they might offer you a full time job!
Finding Work:
Send your portfolio as a PDF etc to as many design companies (that your interested in) as possible, then after a few days give them a quick call to check they have received it.
Another alternative and one that worked for me is to approach a design recruitment agency. I contacted Major Players (there are many others!) when looking for a new graphic design position. This worked very well as they got me a new job within 2 weeks. Remember what you wear can be seen as a reflection of yourself and your design style or preferences.
Behaviour:
Be yourself, be calm and open to discussing your work and the work of the design agency. Remember to ask questions about what work they produce and what your role would be.
Research:
Remember to do some research on the company that is interviewing you, as they are likely to ask you what made you apply for a job with them, what sort of work do they produce, what awards have they won (if any), why do you want to work for them in particular?
If you go for an interview and they don't give you a job, don't worry, your work just might not be suitable for that particular design agency.
Graphic design has started to prevail a lot and many people instead of going to an office for work, opt to do freelancing and they really earn good cash. To be independent in the business, first and foremost part is communicating and starts working with small business owners on project basis or day to day basis. By doing freelance jobs the person will not have the traveling difficulty and save time and energy by working from home. Nowadays the demand for graphic designers has been increasing.
A freelance graphic designer job can be an exhilarating experience and sometimes stressful also. The main requirement to become a successful freelance graphic designer is to build a good portfolio which will impress the employer or the client.
To have a work place separately is very much necessary. Through online resources the freelancers can do the project work according to their area of expertise. By listing the name and contact details online the freelance graphic designer will be able to get clients. Some of the cost effective methods of advertising on freelancing are as follows:
Easiest and cheapest form of advertising is through word of mouth.
To have a well designed portfolio on hand.
For doing a freelance graphic design work the most essential things are the computer and the internet connection. Both hardware and software must be considered by the freelancer. Appropriate memory, graphics card to process graphic files, and processor are to be considered while purchasing a computer.
A. Make your next Graphic Design Job Your Last
How to retire wealthy in a few easy steps
We've all dreamed of spending our working days reclinining back in a deck chair eating cheese sandwiches on an overcast summers day. But then we remember the mortgage/kids/wifes $500 a day drug habit and our fantasies turn to dust. Here at www.mindtap.co.uk we show in 5 easy steps how you can quit that lousy Graphic Design job and spend the rest of your life living in easy street.
Step 1: Think yourself in a better place and low and behold it will happen
This is your first step towards financial freedom. Imagine if you will yourself sat upon a huge pile of money, flinging it in the air with gay abandon and why not? Forget the graphic designer career you had mapped out. Let's join the idle rich instead.
Step 2: Tell the boss what you think of him and burn those bridges!
Now its time to get some payback. Remember the time your design studio manager had you stay late and manually key in that 1oo page farming brochure text by hand and then laughed at you in your face? Right, we'll show him who's boss. A good way to be forcibly removed from the office and earn some extra kudos from your fellow graphic design employees is to take a dump and leave it festering away in a drawer in the bosses desk.Just wait for his reaction when he smells that sick stunt. You're history.
Step 3: When you hit rock bottom the only way is up, up and away
No job = No money right? A spot of domestic violence after hitting the bottle is usually enough encouragement. Hey Presto, one more tiresome burdon off your back!
Step 4: Remember keep your vision and your dreams will come true
At every stage in this degenerate journey, never lose sight of that image we visuallised in step one of yourself sitting astride a huge pile of banknotes. Think hard about your previous day to day life, was there someone in your remote family or circle of friends who had a large stash of cash readily disposable? It's time to pay them a visit with cap in hand.
Step 5: Invest wisely and you can say hello to a life of wanton abandon
Now after securing your large sum of cash from your chosen aquaintence, its prudent not to blow it all in one go on 200ft gold statues of yourself or buying an amusement park complete with zoo. Property for example is 'as safe as houses' or maybe put it all in a high interest savings account.
B. How to Get a Job as a Graphic Designer
"Hi.. Thanks!"
Which got me thinking about how difficult it was for me and some of the fellow graphic design students I studied with to get a job in the design industry back in 1999 (yes that long ago!) straight out of design college. I snapped up a job with a Central London design agency in Soho within 2 weeks of leaving college but looking back it wasn't really the right job for me then. Though just 13 months later I changed positions and worked for a great design agency based in London Bridge and learned a huge amount as well as working on lots of different types of projects as a designer.
Anyway competition was fierce then BUT the amount of graphic design and other design courses available in art colleges and universities up and down the college has grown hugely since then.
So here are a few tips on (like Adam asked) "how to get into the UK Design industry"
The Portfolio:
Having a great design portfolio is a must. Think about the kind of work the agency your applying to does and try to tailor your portfolio towards that. For example if they specialise in corporate identity and branding work try to include work of this kind.
Be ready to talk about your design work, what inspired you, why you approached the project in the way you did, even choice of typeface, colours, imagery etc. Show them some of your sketchs and development work, some agencies what to see your scribbles more than the finished work as it shows your design process and how you think!
Before taking your portfolio along to job interviews, make sure you show it to a people (tutors, other design students) talk them through it, get them to ask you questions about your design work and respond with suitable answers.
Work Experience:
Offer to do some work experience with a design company who's work you really admire (for free if you have to!), even if its just a week then spend that week wowing them, making the tea, producing great work, take an interest in everything relating to that design company. If the company really like you during your work experience they might offer you a full time job!
Finding Work:
Send your portfolio as a PDF etc to as many design companies (that your interested in) as possible, then after a few days give them a quick call to check they have received it.
Another alternative and one that worked for me is to approach a design recruitment agency. I contacted Major Players (there are many others!) when looking for a new graphic design position. This worked very well as they got me a new job within 2 weeks. Remember what you wear can be seen as a reflection of yourself and your design style or preferences.
Behaviour:
Be yourself, be calm and open to discussing your work and the work of the design agency. Remember to ask questions about what work they produce and what your role would be.
Research:
Remember to do some research on the company that is interviewing you, as they are likely to ask you what made you apply for a job with them, what sort of work do they produce, what awards have they won (if any), why do you want to work for them in particular?
If you go for an interview and they don't give you a job, don't worry, your work just might not be suitable for that particular design agency.
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