Free Design Work

[effex]

FALL HAS ARRIVED. The weather report claims it's only visiting (back up to 100 next week) but right now it's 70 degrees and everything is joy.

I'm spending most of my free time prepping my design portfolio for job hunting - I am getting out of this company and this town. Most of my recent work has been for my job (ads, product brochures, product catalogs, more ads) and, in the interest of diversity, I'm putting together some filler projects. I was toying with doing some personal spec work (my fake band, The Pretentious Italics, needs album art) but thought, hey, maybe someone on my rlist needs something done.

So! Does anyone need print design done? It'd be free of charge (you can pay me if you want, but it's not a requirement), the tradeoff being a more casual, collaborative process for me and a quick process (two or three weeks, tops). I'm especially interested in book/publication covers, event/promotional posters, editorial stuff, or album design.

I'm a working designer with 4 years of experience (when did that happen) on top of a degree; this'll be professional grade. Samples available upon request, etc. Comment or send me an email at teawise at gmail dot com if you're interested.

Comments

[onkoona]

hihi, we've been having 'fall' since the start of July!
It's been nothing but rain, and the trees decided it really was fall around August 1st.
Our summer has now officially been rained out.

Good luck with the design thing. Nothing I can help you with I'm afraid...

Unless you do art too?
I always want to see more pictures of Sai! <3 <3 <3

[flo]

Will be sending you an email in a tick-- I have a novella that's being edited right now, and I've been keeping an eye out for artists for the cover for a while.

[effex]

Lucky! We won't get Fall for real until late October-ish. Texas is very fond of Summer.

I'm not doing art commissions, alas, but you're right about the need for more Sai!

[effex]

Ooh! Got it, I should have a response to you soon.

[onkoona]

We do get summer here to. We even get the occasional heat wave. But this summer's been nothing but rain.

I may have to sacrifice myself and make some Sai art. Oh, bugger.

[nepenthe]

*Jealous of ur weather. Still hot as all get-out here.

It's what I get for living in the desert.

[boundbooks]

<-- totally random browser

Would you mind if I linked this on my reading circle? I don't particularly have a need for a designer right now, but someone I know might. Not sure how widely you want the offer spread. :)

[effex]

Cooler weather will come eventually, B! It won't be Fall, though, I'm pretty sure we didn't have Fall growing up. Different deserts, but still.

[effex]

Sure! I've got time for maybe one or two more, might as well widen the potential pool a bit.

[boundbooks]

Cool, will do so!

ForbiddenFiction

[dmatkins]

Would you be interested in working on cover design for ForbiddenFiction.com? If so, contact me at: dmatkins@forbiddenfiction.com

[boundbooks]

Came across this in copperbadge's job fest:

Apptio's very aggressively hiring right now, including graphic designers

http://copperbadge.livejournal.com/3361409.html?thread=76182401#t76182401

[effex]

Ooh, thanks for the reminder! I saw that, thought 'Seattle seems like a nice place', and promptly forgot about it.

[nepenthe]

Oh!!! I almost forgot! Martha Jones still needs her itty-bitteh med school text books (if you make one on xeno-bio I'll be soooo happy). Bonus; I'll be sure to take lots of photos with Martha studying and the Doctor (with and without his pants).

[effex]

Ooooooh. Can you figure out what scale they're supposed to be in? She's 1/6th scale or something, right? Or send me a measurement of her hands and I'll extrapolate.

[nepenthe]

Martha's 11 inches tall and her hands, wrist ball-joint to middle finger-tips is just under an inch at 7/8ths of an inch.