This week seeings as the assignment was going along smoothly I decided to look into out of college clients. In this process I proceeded to look online and contact various people who by observation needed some work done.
The types of work I was looking at were simple things like menus and logos in particular. I contacted about 10 maybe 15 different places but none unfortunately read or respond to me. This made me realise that freelancing was hard work as well as hard to keep up with. I think for myself freelancing isn’t a reliable source of work or income but it could be balanced with another job.
I really want to get into some freelance work when it comes to the end of the trimester and follow through to the holidays as it can keep my practicing and trying out new techniques as a designer.
My goal for the end of this trimester is to have at least one for of freelance work done and then grow from there for further work.
The glass had the gallery walk on Tuesday and I found it to be a mix of good and bad results. The good was about the feedback that helped the design but I found bad in some suggestions that were too obsered or I just knew they wouldn’t work. I put this mainly down to the fact that as a designer I know how things go in such a way where as this was public feedback so I understand that they wouldn’t have the same knowledge as I do.
However I found this process new and exciting and look forward to any more of these gallery walks in the future.