How To Start A Successful Design Freelance Career (Udemy.com)
Freelancer 's step-by-step guide on how to become a successful graphic design freelancer Graphic Design Freelance
Created by: Dawid Tuminski
Last updated June 2019
What you will learn
- Start a successful graphic design freelancing career
- Get their first client and, ultimately, more clients
- Avoid most common mistakes fresh freelancers make
- Set up an interactive client brief
- Design a professional logo based on the client brief
- Design a professional business card in Illustrator and Photoshop
- Design a responsive website
- Design a modern flyer
- Design a Facebook cover photo
Course Description
"Dawid is doing a great job explaining how you can become a successful freelancer. What I liked most about this course is the balance between freelancing information and web-design information because in reality the best web-designers are not always the most highly-paid ones. Even if you are a web-designer already but you want to make additional income working from home, then this comprehensive course will show you step-by-step how to do it. Highly recommended."
Aren’t you tired of working 9-5, answering to your boss who doesn’t always get it right…
But most of all aren’t you tired of not getting paid for doing what you really love?
Well if you are, you need a change.
This course gives you a chance to gain confidence in your skills and open your eyes to the possibilities of a graphic design freelance career.
You’ll play a role of a graphic designer who will create a complete, real-life project.
But you’ll also find answers to the most common questions that fresh graphic design freelancers have.
So if you want to learn
What is the best way to start as a freelance graphic designer?
How to get clients?
And how to avoid the most common mistakes fresh freelancers make?
You will find the answers inside.
Let me take you step-by-step through the whole process of creating a complete graphic design project: We will start with a client brief: you will learn what it is, what it should contain and how to set one up yourself using Ms Word.
And then, based on the client brief we'll design:
Fantastic logo and business cards that compliment it
Clean and professional website – you will learn how to design it for responsive web design as well
Modern flyer – this skill is particularly useful when working for local clients
Facebook cover photo (and you’ll be amazed how simple it is to set your own template that is always accurate)
This course will give you everything you need if you are looking for professional and easy to follow Illustrator and Photoshop skills that will jump start your graphic design freelance career.
It’s a series of standalone projects: you don’t have to sit all day and watch everything: you can jump to what’s your interest for the day and don’t feel guilty that you didn’t watch the rest.
If you are taking this course, you should have some basic understanding of how to work with Illustrator and Photoshop.
Click that enroll button and take your first step to having a career you always dreamed about.
See you inside!
Instructor Details
- 4.0 Rating
79 Reviews
Dawid Tuminski
Designer, coder and educational entrepreneur.
Adobe Certified Expert in Illustrator whose courses were listed in the Udemy's TOP 10 best reviewed courses.
Creating online courses on design tools like Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop, logo design, web design, graphic design freelancing, online teaching and digital marketing .
Teaching +100k students in 160 countries worldwide.
Owner of a graphic design studio.
Loves the freedom of creating courses and prides in his teaching method, which is straight to the point and with a smile.
His motto: Boring instructors are worse than boring topics!
His students value his courses for their conciseness, professionalism and actionable tips and techniques they can apply in their day-to-day design tasks and online education businesses.
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Reviews
By Anonymized User on 6/26/2021
My own personal experience with this course was quite good. I think, I can say, that this course was a good match for me!
By Victor Adetona on 8/10/2020
I realise I cant download this course for practice and I cant go back ,its so annoying
By Ian Walker on 6/14/2020
Avery interesting course on having a successful freelance career in design.
By Maria Vasileiou on 6/4/2018
Very understandable, very clear and step by step information!
By Debra Bianchi on 8/6/2017
It's pretty basic and redundant. Nothing so far that is new or informative.
By Alan McClenaghan on 10/8/2016
Would have liked to have learned more about the business side of freelancing rather than design techniques. Saying that, Dawid has a knack for making design look easy and I certainly learned more than a few useful techniques and short cuts that can make my own design work better and easier.
By Frank on 9/5/2016
This course is very useful and cover many skills and procedure in real design.
By RMazur on 8/23/2016
I'm new on the market and I'm pretty sure, that it'll be very usefull in my first steps!
By Sapir Perelmuter on 6/18/2016
Great course , the instroctur is very simple and clear , i think that the facebook cover and flyer design are techniques without the thinking behind of the design. overall i personally enjoyed the course andd i was great best regards!
By Hari Bahadur Malla on 5/27/2016
really more powerful and more detail about freelancing career . its make my life to think about to jump on freelancing career and make the boss of my own life.. this is the course i never saw before on internet ever.. thanks a lot for this wonderful and useful information . thanks once again...
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