Category Archives: For Design Students

Graphic Design Resume – Resources and Inspiration

By Tara: Freelance Designer | Published: March 11, 2010

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe to my free Newsletter or follow me on twitter. Thanks for visiting!I remember putting together my design resumes/curriculum vitaes in the past, I never quite knew how creative, or not I should make it. Mine started from the downright bizarre [...]

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What is the Average Graphic Designer Wage?

By Tara: Freelance Designer | Published: February 25, 2010

This is a common question that people ask and I get a few people emailing me about this too. The trouble is no-one wants to tell you it’s a taboo question to talk about wages. I remember when I started out freelancing I was fairly lucky as I had previously hired freelance designers (when the [...]

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Help Design Students Please Submit Sample Design Briefs

By Tara: Freelance Designer | Published: February 23, 2010

I have read countless questions on design blogs and forums from students learning graphic design about how to build up a design portfolio. It’s that old vicious circle, the new designer needs to show work in their portfolio to a potential employer, but how can you show professional design projects when you haven’t got a [...]

Also posted in General Graphic Design | Tagged example design brief, graphic design student, sample design brief, student designer | 9 Comments