Designers in Demand
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- yurimon0
wait.. this is a website for designers?
- RIZ-1
Good work leads to more good work, which leads to a better portfolio and eventually being more in demand.
I've always found that to really get ahead (in design anyway) you can't pump out 'mediocre work' and expect or hope that the 'good work' will just come your way eventually.
You have to treat every single project as a potential portfolio piece that you can be proud of - no matter how shit the brief may seem at the time - you have to find an idea to make it a great brief.
Doing this takes passion and energy - and an overwhelming desire to WANT to produce good work, no matter how many late nights it takes to get the job done properly.
- sted0
Maybe learn from my example: (end of 90 to now, Hungary [CE] )
@ my 1st workplace at a larger ad agency the clients sit next to me because at that time even the accounts didn't know how websites worked, I created garbage learned nothing just how mediocre people do things (and some technical stuff like css and html). (and newstoday happened!)2nd: small company with clients form e-lance, I had to face real competition. we had all the time in the world, created innovative things and learned a lot. made shitload of money by working my asses off and enjoyed every single second of it :) (this company is now ustream.tv)
3rd: In just 3 months I was CD and indispensable, won high-quality clients, pulled together a great team, did stuff never before (like exhibit and broadcast designs etc), financial meltdown kicked in, owners where stealing money from the project budgets, I left the company when a client called because the half of the invoices for the marketing budget went missing...(the money was in the ceo-s castle wedding and brand new car...)
4th: I was hired to create a creative division for a 50+ developer firm, almost all ad agency was our client, made the division profitable, quit because realized after 6 months that they hired me to win larger projects, and they secretly used my portfolio to get new work. (also my contract was a sht :)
5th: Freelance :) I got clients I want, I can produce things in the quality I want, for the price I want. But it has a side effect: i'm alone, I have to deal with all the things like communication to finances. And I really miss working in a team :)