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Mistress Mouse posted:Also, do copy places like Kinkos hire designated designers for business cards, etc. or do the retail employees also do the design? I'm hoping to avoid retail work as much as possible, as I've already done it and I really really hate it. If anyone has advice to offer about what sorts of places I should look up in my area and visit, please reply I can answer this as I used to be a "Computer Services" guy for them. I did all their document creation and such. THEN they outsourced all their poo poo to India to a company named OfficeTiger, and then I was stuck making copies most of the time and occasionally doing design stuff. BEsides, most of the stuff I did at Kinko's was pretty mundane/crap work. You're not really allowed to spend much time on things and people rarely want anything well designed, they just want what they want (ie, their name and some crappy clipart on a business card). My advice would be to try and do stuff for friends/family right now. Design some flyers or business cards or whatnot. You'll need some samples of your work or a portfolio to get just about any job that is design-related.
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Not a double-post, but later on in the day I have some questions, so I figured I might post my thoughts. First off, kudos to same for such a comprehensive OP. This is an incredibly valuable resource for CC, and it's really great to know there is more on the way. As for my current situation/questions, I was recently cut loose from an Art & Promotions Director position at a local Apple Specialist due to the middle manager trying to work my rear end off as a stockboy and add additional mandatory hours that I was supposed to be at work regardless of my workload (IE, nothing to do? stay anyway just so we feel better). So if I get an interview for a position, what do I tell them when they ask me why I left (was fired after a single incident)? So now I'm looking for work. I've tried to get some feed on openings via my social network to no avail. I've tried monster, careerbuilder and their ilk (but personally I don't think a lot of good jobs for designers make it to being posted there). Should I just coldcall creative agencies around town as my next step? Is there any way to make coldcalling more effective to try and get my foot in the door? Secondly, I've recently acquired a domain name and have put my portfolio up. I'm working on designing the logo (which I'll use as my creative/freelance identity), but my first step was making sure I could have the name because making a logo for an unavailable domain name does me no good. I feel my portfolio could greatly be improved but my pieces show potential. I want to do some nice, newer work but I've run dry on clients (I usually have no problem charging $45/hr for freelance). So if I want more work, should I reduce prices for a short time (which I think comes off as a cheesy tactic, designers don't really run sales on their freelance prices)? I wouldn't mind doing some freebie stuff for certain people but now I'm unemployed and feel I should have SOMETHING coming in to help pay the bills (though I'm not in dire straights just yet). On a related note, I would LOVE to add some more contemporary, businesslike design pieces to my portfolio, but as my town is very music business oriented, I usually end up getting a lot of work related to that. Any tips for how to capture some work from businesses as opposed to musicians/promoters/etc? Here's the url: https://www.clinkmedia.com/portfolio Magman fucked around with this message at 09:11 on Nov 27, 2007 |
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