Moovin Designs - Freelance Multimedia Design

Becoming A Professional Freelance Designer

Becoming a freelance designer is a common dream among many designers, although it takes quite a bit of talent, business savvy, commitment, and time. With all there is to consider when becoming self-employed, one can become overwhelmed, enough to deter themselves from trying at all.

Do You Want Fries With That Logo?

From low-budgets to rush jobs to piss-poor project management, every designer has one time or another faced the inevitable, "I need a logo (brochure, website, etc.) done ASAP" scenario. Depending on the designer's work situation, some can simply choose to decline these projects.

But for many full-time designers, this "rushing creative" is a very real and necessary part of their job requirement. So when asked to "just slap a design together" or "crank it out," how do we as designers maintain our standards and integrity

Strategies For Successful Relations With Clients

Let's face it. Some days, you want to just fir your clients. You go through one too many comps, iterations or edits and you've has enough. It has happened to everyone at least once and I'd be lying if I said it won't happen again; you get to the end of a project and realize that you would have made more per hour flipping burgers. Thankfully, as with most common problems, there are a few simple guidelines that you can follow to help make sure that you're never working for below minimum wage.

Effective Strategy to Estimate Time for your Design Projects

How many times have you been completely confused at how that 'small' project turned into such a big one costing double and taking three times the length you estimated? Many of you will say estimating time for web projects accurately is an oxymoron, but by applying a few effective techniques it's possible to dramatically increase the accuracy of most web project estimates.