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Hi all, I'm a former graphic designer who hasn't done any paid work in ages. I was asked to do a small project for a friend based on their existing identity package. What is the $USD price for a gift certificate design where you are located? I'm struggling to gauge the price range as the last time I worked, there was no Canva, Fiverr, or AI so the market was completely different. Fiverr ranges from $10 to $25 btw.

Thank you in advance.

I’m a graphic designer, and I got my first job after graduating from university. At the time, I was using a MacBook Air with a 1.1 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i3, which made it very challenging to work since I use Adobe apps daily. Now, I’m looking to invest in a MacBook Pro that can handle intensive workloads and last me at least 6+ years. Which model would you recommend?

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Hi all,

as part of my Uni work we have to create a portfolio for a final outcome and show varying stages of progress. Attached here is an early stage but functioning portfolio (that is very bare bones) so I can gather a lot of feedback to evidence the future iterations. If you could give it a look over and ideally complete the survey or comment it would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Site: https://dylbkr.wixsite.com/website

Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYcPJbzYy4Xc85YPXUFacLfHuv1ZGVSJS5Jl7tKQDMHIHqkg/viewform?usp=header

Hi everyone,

I’m not sure if this is the right subreddit for this, but I’m looking for a short course abroad in design or creative coding. Having graduated from art school, I’d love to further develop my design skills while collaborating and learning alongside others.

I’m not looking for a master’s program but rather a short, intensive course—around two weeks—that includes portfolio reviews and hands-on classes.

Does anyone have recommendations or tips?

Thanks in advance!

I am beginner designer so guide me

Hey there creatives!

I'm currently in the phase of needing a change and have started getting my portfolio ready for interviews. Do you think just sharing my behance profile is unprofessional? I was thinking of upgrading to pro for a while, at least until my search ends.

Here's my resume, any feedback is appreciated :) happy Sunday y'all!

https://www.behance.net/designkreatively

I'm a junior art director/graphic designer (since 2020), but I'm feeling really burnt out by my current job. I mostly work on social media for agencies, and it feels like I'm just churning out endless mediocre content. There's no budget, no creative freedom, and I'm not really learning or growing.

I'm thinking about switching gears – maybe towards more traditional art direction or finding a graphic design role that's actually fulfilling. But I'm totally lost. My portfolio is full of social media stuff, and I don't know how to showcase my real skills. Should I focus on building a more tradutional art direction portfolio (work w a copywriter on pitch concepts), or try to revamp my graphic design one? I'm stressed out and feeling lost. I just want to find a job where I can actually be creative and feel good about the work I'm doing.

In terms of art direction - I don't have the money to go to portfolio school - so I'd be doing it on my own and feels daunting. And I fear I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to the pitch style of art direction.

Graphic Design - I really like vintage design/ ephemera and was thinking maybe I could make a portfolio specializing in that style? I worry all jobs are pixel monkey jobs though - it would be so nice to work somewhere with actual good designers and mentorship.

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Hi everyone! For context I am NOT a graphic designer, I'm a first-year engineering PhD student who took 1 semester of a graphic design class in undergrad, have enjoyed doodling/painting my whole life, and really enjoy designing posters and PowerPoints to present my work:) I have always wanted to up my game with graphic design in this regard, and lately I've been into following the art featured on journal covers. I wanted to ask the community if there's anyone with experience here who has resources, books, or just information they'd like to pass on with regards to graphic design for scientific applications specifically. I'm going to be working on molecular simulations / polymeric materials so lots of room for making really cool graphics. Generally I'm looking for pointers on software to look at, people to learn from, resources to read, etc. Since I've got a few weeks off for holiday, figured I'd spend it doing something I love (investing in the visual arts) while also making it productive for my career.

Mini rant but if I could go back in time, I would’ve stayed local in my major city hometown to attend college instead of attending a top tier design program. It’s been 8 months since I graduated from said program that says to have a 97% job placement rate after graduation but I still can’t find a job. Despite me doing two internships (1 art direction /1 social media marketing) plus the on campus design position for student orgs, I still can’t find anyone who’ll take a chance on me. Every time I go to a resume and portfolio review, it’s the same thing. My portfolio’s good but I need more design experience. So now I’m volunteering my design skills to non profits to rectify that but I can’t even get a call back from a minimum wage job to supplement the costs of living in the meantime. At least if had attended college within my city, I would’ve had more opportunities to take on more internships while going to school full time. But I didn’t. Now, all I’ve got to show from my current Alma mater is an above average portfolio and a bunch of mental scarring/financial debt from the unnecessary competition our professors placed against us. I don’t know what next year holds but it’s getting harder to imagine my future in GD by the day, especially with the declining job market in the US.

For all of you that have had to develop design guides for self or client. How did you get started??

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This font is heavy to load and may freeze or crash the Windows font viewer. - https://www.dafont.com/devoto-font.font

And it's not the only one, I thought these freezes would end with a new laptop, not even close.

I was wondering if anyone had any insight on why Factor uses an underscore at the end of their name for logos? I don't have an issue or think it's bad I'm just curious as to why someone would put an unnecessary underscore like this.

Hello, I have a longtime client who has not paid the last two invoices, the work of which was performed last spring. I have sent him reminders although I know his business is struggling. I have sympathy for him, but for $2880 I'm bummed he is putting me in the position to escalate. What have others done in these circumstances? He is in a different state, but I think his llc is in my state.

I don’t know how it’s gonna hit the industry,

as the title suggests, i designed a graphic for a client’s clothing brand and they’ve just hit me up asking for a vector of the file, as their screen printer “needs” a vector file for printing purposes.

i’ve worked with many screen printers in the past and very seldom do they need a vector file, and can simply print from a PSD or PDF file. that said, i don’t know a lot about screen printing, but i’m wondering if the guy they’re working with possibly doesn’t know what he’s doing?

i’ve gone through some trial and error of turning the graphic into a vector file, however i’ve run into a multitude of issues while doing so. these include massive drops in quality and also adds a lot more colors to the graphic.

any ideas as to how i can vectorize this thing while maintaining the same quality and everything? i’m sort of at my wits end with this one so if anyone has any strokes of wisdom here, i would love to hear it!

EDIT: for anyone suggesting to use illustrator image trace, i did on fact try this already and the result was not pretty- distressing looked very wonky and colors were all over the place. i also tried an online vectorizer (vectorizer.ai) and the quality of the result was significantly better, however, the colors once again were shot.

Hello everyone! I'm working on an illustration that is supposed to be printed as 50cm × 70cm (19.6in × 27.5in). My file is set to 300 dpi, so I was wondering if my pixel calculation was right.

I used this website to calculate it, and it gave me (at 300dpi): 50cm = 5905.51px 70cm = 8267.71px

I would just like to double check with the pros if this is good. Thanks in advance!

This is a social media ad. Going here for something visually catchy and, hopefully, would make people engage with it in a funny way.

Hi everyone, so I really want to get into graphic design and specialize in brand identity design / product design but until I save up for money for an actual graphic design / visual communications degree course at uni, I was wondering if there are any free courses or websites available where I can learn the basics and some more skills of using InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator and practice in the meantime, especially to practice with designing a brand identity. I was working for so long in a field that did not interest me at all and now that I've finally found something I enjoy doing, I want to fully understand and learn everything I can and fully give my absolute best shot at it but I have to start from a scratch.

Any info and recommendations would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance :)

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What are some background noises you guys listen to get you and keep you in the zone while you work?

Podcast? Music? Shows? Any recommendations?

When I worked at VICE we all listened to true crime podcasts, if you have any recommendations of your fave let me know!

Hi, I’m an in-house graphic designer for a research institute that publishes books and holds events. It was recently decided that we should have a printed catalogue to contain all of the books we’ve published in addition to merch that is left over from events.

I’m starting to research this weekend, and just wanted to reach out to this community and ask if y’all have examples of catalogues that are intelligently designed and aesthetically pleasing that come to mind. Any references, print or digital, or suggestions of companies to look up would be much appreciated.

I'm a graphic design student trying to get into some 3D design. What's the difference between Blender and Rhino? I don't know much about either but there seems to be a love it or hate it vibe for Blender and all the posts I see about Rhino are super technical terms I don't understand.