Category Archives: For Design Students

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 [...]

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

College and University T-shirt Design Competition

By Tara: Freelance Designer | Published: February 17, 2010

Voteforart is a new site that is a bit like Threadless but for University and College Apparel. Anyone can enter the design competitions to create a t-shirt design targeted at specific colleges/universities. The winning t-shirt designer will get a cash prize and their design will printed on t-shirts and sold in the University Book Store. [...]

Also posted in Competitions, General Graphic Design | Tagged design competition, design university, t-shirt design | 7 Comments