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Not sure if this is the correct forum. Looking for someone to design a retro style T-shirt with selected images, similar to the one attached. If this is possible thanks if not can someone point me in the right direction.

I graduated about 2 years ago, but during this time I've only worked as a freelance, or in places where I'm the only graphic designer so I haven't been able to interact with other professionals.

I have a client that frequently requests different projects, but I don't know if the deadlines they give me are reasonable or if I'm setting unrealistic expectations for other designers that might work for them.

I'm requested many branding projects but I'm only given from 2 days to a week to present at least 3 logo options, most logos require an illustration that can go from simple icons to detailed illustrations. I think this is unreasonable but I don't know how much time should I ask for.

as i said, im very much a beginner in this field and my studies are in the sciences so i cant really ask peers about these so if anyone can answer these questions, it would be very appreciated

• whats the best set up that can create a wide range of designs? (im interested in typography and do a lot of these digitally on a borrowed tablet, im thinking of getting one for myself but i fear that the range of design would be very little as im not really an illustrator )
  • pc + surface tablet?
  • just a tablet?
  • just a pc?
• any good software recommendations? is photoshop worth it?
• do you think its important to learn actual drawing skills (portrait, anatomy, the works) to succeed in this field? im interest yet terrified of starting tbh since its quite humbling to start drawing in my 20s while theres so many artists much younger and better than me

thank you in advance to those who will answer! ive already made a few designs myself but i feel like im being held back by these tiny things

I am a total beginner and have no idea was the name of that line is called.

I’ve noticed that the RGB model could represent 256^3 = 16,777,216 colors, while we have only 361×101×101= 3,682,561 colors in the HSL model, this suggests a difference of 13,094,655 colors. how then is it possible for any color code in RGB to be converted to HSL and vice versa? Is there an error in my math, or is there something I’m missing?

So I was recently contacted through my website of an interested client (1st time they’ve used my actual website and not insta or Behance). The job was standard stuff and just a series of illustrations for a major insurance company to do some new publishing. Did my research the names came back as real agents at a real office for the company. Something did not feel right mainly because they asked if I had deposited the check yet. So I deposited without telling them after contacting the issuing bank and my bank. The banks ran it and found it to be fraudulent but it took a few weeks. I just wanted to let everyone know they are doing their research. I think they were going to ask for a partial refund before the bank could verify funds so they’d end up getting cash from my account. Luckily all they ended up with was some rough sketches and being reported to local, FTC, FBI and a few other online resources. I just want people to be aware to do your due diligence verifying online clients.

A question about mockups: They are large when I download them from marketplaces (3000px, 4000px, 5000px etc), and the thing is I enlarge my illustration size just so it fits the mockup. WHICH IS OKAY I GUESS. But, when I try to add the exported mockup to the branding presentation (for clients or for Behance), the presentation dimensions are smaller (1400 px width), I think. The mockups are so huge, that when I resize them, they become really weird and small, so I just want to know. I know mockups are there to add photorealistic appeal to the design. And the design has to be presented to the client. Hence, the official use of mockups for designers is to basically present them well on a presentation. And presentations are not that large. Why are mockups so large in size, even for a business card? HOW TO RESIZE THEM PROPERLY FOR PRESENTATION?

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Im new to this field as you can tell. So, please be kind.

What is the best resolution to export your Instagram in feed posts at? Is 1080x1080 the bare minimum-should I export 2x to keep the image crisp? Also JPEG vs PNG which is best practice?

I’ve had the Asus ProArt for a few years and, well wouldn’t you know it, I finally figured out where my afternoonly migraines have come from! No idea what about the monitor specifically gives me migraines, but I’ve had to really screw with the color settings to get it down to a dull throbbing, so the whole point of the monitor is moot.

What are you liking? I do half digital/UI design, half front end dev, a little bad animation on the side for when my boss doesn’t feel like hiring someone who knows what they’re doing.

Price range is ideally US$300-600, +- $100 i guess but I’d like to stay in the middle range if I can.

Here is my problem...

Clients, even those I've had years ago, often call me to make minor changes to old graphics templates so that they can use them.

I often make on-brand 'template' graphics for clients that they use for a bunch of purposes (for example event announcements, conference programmes, flyers with minor changes every blue moon, etc)

The intention though is that they should be able to use these without my support. Mainly because I don't enjoy changing tiny amounts of text and keeping track of hundreds of templates that I have to dig back up every so often.

This is mainly a problem because my clients have minimal technical know-how, so no matter how I give the templates - they end up calling me for help. Of course Adobe formats are out of the question...I've also tried google drive and canva, which are very beginner friendly, but the problem in those cases is that my clients will end up accidentally deleting something or changing something that they cannot reverse. So the problem with those is that there is too much freedom to break things.

I'm wondering if there is a tool that allows designers to make on-brand graphics (similar to the examples I've listed) that allow clients to edit pre-defined parts of the deliverable, and then export to whatever format they need afterwards?
A bit like canva, but with an admin-function for designers so that they can restrict the amount the client is able to edit - whilst still being super user friendly to non technical clients? Or a PDF that allows certain fields to be 'filled in' and then saved, except its on web (because my clients does not own acrobat and will need something more streamlined to avoid confusion)...

If it doesn't exist I might have to built it myself, I've dabbled in development and these calls are starting to wind me up. I also don't intend to do these freelance gigs forever and can already imagine clients calling me while I'm at a new job asking if I can help them change the dates for an events poster I made 3 years ago.

Hello,

I work in a small engineering company of roughly 25 employees, my issue is that we want to have nice, unified price offers with some general company information and then the product details. The issue is all of the salespeople want to modify almost every price offer (not just general things like price, service terms etc. but also refferences, specs, photos, alot of stuff) BUT every single salesperson is absolutely incompetent in terms of any sense for esthetics, they cant even use the company font, let alone do some kind of format adjustments. We are talking about 5 sales people with roughly 50 different price offer types. They all use Word, my idea was to create PDF file in a graphic editor with selected editable fields, but then again, they wont be able to edit stuff they want to edit and if I was creating every price offer we as a company send, I wouldnt be able to do anything else.

TLDR: Need dislexia-safe price offer format/solution that even monkey can edit without destroying company credibility. Also should be reasonably priced.

The paper needs to be printable with inkjet. And I can tape a 2nd sheet to the 1st sheet of paper to make it thick enough for my printer to accept. I'm looking for glossy paper and matte. The matte needs to be around 0.03mm.
And the glossy needs to be around 0.10mm. The size can be A4 or US Letter size.
-Thanks.
I'm having a hard time finding anything. And paper packaging often only speaks in terms of GSM, which doesnt help with figuring out exact thickness.

Hey guys, I would really appreciate any feedback/tips on my portfolio. Unfortunately not able to use work from my previous employer so having to build up from some freelance projects + concept work.

campbell-design.co.uk

Has anyone ever had this cycle every time starting with a new client?

You get anxious thinking what if you mess up what if it doesn't work out

Then the clients ends up being happy

Then you feel you can do this and have confidence but the cycle keeps repeating itself 😅🤣

How do I overcome this? Someone help me

It sucks to go through this each time When in the end everything works out

Looking anyone who have some spare time to mentor me, not for free. The story is i graduated uni 3 years ago got 1 job as junior designer in art gallery but the work there was more edit photoshoots and create some stuff which is not graphic design related and any of the work i dont think i could use kn portfolio as its more fine art so I left the studio after 1 year time. I worked as large format printer and some other printing jobs making some quick easy graphics and 30min logo designs.. Looking someone who could mentor me crafting a nice portfolio basically idk once in 2 weeks have a look and give me some ideas what could land me a job.
I bought also fake design briefs to help me move more

Sorry have to remove post and edit the logo. Thanks for all the help.

Saw this on the internet today. Not sure who to credit, but I thought you guys might enjoy this.

Does anyone know where I can find this font ? Working on a client project and they gave us artwork ( Print ready, PDF) but when I open the file in illustrator, the fonts are not outlined. Cannot seem to find this font anywhere online. Does anyone know a work around? I asked the printer if they can use the PDF as is , but they are also asking for the missing font.

Any advice on getting through to him? No matter how many times I explain, give advice or tips or try to inspire, there seems to be zero growth. He's been at the company for about 5 months now and my patience is sadly wearing a little thin.

It's not just design skills either. Growing as a designer does take a lot of time and practice, but some things, like proper file naming and filing require no talent, just discipline. I'm getting sick of repeatedly asking for stuff like that to be done correctly, it makes me feel like a pedantic asshole. But at the same time, this stuff matters, and I'm worried that if he can't even get those basics right, forget about anything bigger or more complex.

I do think I could always be better at being a mentor and I'm trying really hard to be the person I would have loved to learn from when I was a junior. We have a good and friendly relationship overall.

The thing is, he's quite open to feedback and will generally take it on with a good attitude in the moment. But it's like pouring water into a bucket with a hole. Afterwards, there still seems to be zero improvement, or it is very short lived. Is there hope for change?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethandavis95

I recently graduated with my design BA back in December after working in the industry for 3 years. Those years consisted of internships and part-time work while I was in school, but I’ve yet to find anything entry-level that would accept my skill level and portfolio. I’m feeling a bit lost and would love some tips from more experienced people in this field. Maybe some suggestions on how I can pivot? Open to anyone’s advice.

Both my 2015 5k retina 27 inch iMac and 2018 MacBook Pro are showing signs of age and I need a new setup - expensive decisions incoming.

I’m currently looking at the Mac Mini M2 Pro and a 16 inch M3 MacBook Pro. I primarily work from home but I do go away semi regularly and having something portable to work from is useful. I can’t decide if I should save money by getting a high spec Mac Mini (similarly specced MBP are a lot more expensive) then get a cheaper MBP/MBA for portability, or just get a high spec MBP for both uses. The 16 inch MBP probably makes sense so I have a big screen on the go, but the idea of having my primary desktop setup using a laptop that could get knocked, damaged, stolen, and a battery that could get quickly worn out from plugging and unplugging all the time somehow just feels less slick.

I’ll also need to consider a monitor. Quite tempted to salvage my perfectly good 5k iMac monitor with a converter board rather than splurge another £1500+ on a studio display.

I primarily work from home in the UK, in Adobe CC (no 3D, minimal video).

Any advice would be appreciated.

hi I'm studying graphic design and I'm volunteering in an organisation on my campus to gain some experience so I'm doing my first project for printing. I learned some print stuff on my university but I'm still not understanding the whole process with printing because I'm still new. I'm doing t-shirts, tote bag, stickers and a notebook design. if you have any tips for preparing my files for print it would be really helpful. All I know by now is needing it in CMYK colors and it being in pdf or ps format. thanks to everyone in advance :)

I'm working on a project, but I'm not really sure what logo should i pick! This project focuses a lot of editorial design and layouts though so the logo is not necessarily the most important thing, but I'm struggling to make something "neutral" 😔✊ Thank you so much, any feedback would be appreciated!

Would you guys work for a terrible company that basically just scams people into buying their crappy merchandise, if the pay was good?

Current job is soul-sucking and I absolutely loathe the people running it, but I get paid slightly above average and am a bit nervous to look for work again if I were to leave.

Constantly debating with myself.. "I have bills to pay and I should just be thankful to have a job" vs. "Life is too short to work somewhere that doesn't deserve you. Move on"

Has anyone dealt with a dilemna like this before and have any tips/advice? I wish I could provide more info but I do not want to expose myself.