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10 Tips to Bag Your First Graphic Design Gig

Inkbot Design

As a newcomer, landing that crucial first client can seem daunting. You can kickstart your freelance graphic design career with strategic planning and persistent effort. In this comprehensive guide, I'll walk you through my top tips for turning your graphic design dreams into a reality. Include context, e.g. client needs.

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How to Create a Great Corporate Identity: A Complete Guide

Inkbot Design

Many businesses opt for a simple look to make it easy for their clients to visualise their company when they hear the name. However, using a complex design can also be effective. Larger companies with complex business processes, multiple products, and require creative solutions are among the most profitable clients for freelancers.

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Three things to know about being a designpreneur

UX Collective

My unique brain wiring helped me create impactful designs but is also a cause of unnecessary workload, pushing client boundaries, and strained relationships. Design professionals with imposter syndrome should embrace diversity even more. What can creatives do to reconcile the commercial expectations of time, quality, and cost?

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Study Design Abroad: Oyinkan Karunwi, Lagos to Shillington New York

Shillington

But after 3 years working as a business advisory associate, I realized that the weekends and late nights I spent designing for clients brought me more joy and fulfillment and sometimes, even more income than my job as an associate. A major factor in my decision making was time. The more I read the more convinced I was.

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The making of a strategic designer

UX Collective

You might have heard of terms like design thinking, human-centered design, service design, UX design, and innovation design to describe similar approaches. In my opinion, all of these disciplines are under a big strategic design umbrella and can be deployed in different contexts.