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https://www.fontsquirrel.com/matcherator

>>313930
ty sir!

so what was the font?

>>313904
do a couple of complete brandings, even if it's for a fake business, go all in with 3d mock ups and everything

>>313905
how can I make it clear in the portfolio it's a fake business/personal work? I am afraid they are gonna get their hopes up thinking that I actually did a big-time client job.

I currently work as in-house graphic designer but most shit I do currently is product catalogues/sales posters, it's not impressive enough for a portfolio that agency wants to see, that's why I ask.

>>313906
Save like a motherfucker.
Get your own gear.
Pull a few clients on the side of your current role.
Work hard. Work until you have complete faith in your results and visuals.
When you feel confident, tell your work that you plan to go freelance and negotiate a notice period to ensure a smooth transition (help to recruit and train), and leave on good terms. Leave the door open, they might approach you for freelance.

Now, make that site spicy, hone your personal branding, create a mailer (a2 fold down work sampler), business cards and folio (buy a Hartnack). You WILL be judged on EVERYTHING.

Now: BOMBARD.

Send emails, cv samplers with covering letters to agencies, magazines, everyone. This content has to fucking sing. If you're good, you'll be working overflow for agencies in no time.

Out of interest:
Where are you based?
Are you any good?

Pro tips: buy a decent dslr and learn how to use it. Learn grids and how to design using them. Indesign is your friend. Do not lay up with anything else. Master typography.

Ads are essentially a combination of type and image. Composition is everything. Absolutely everything.

>>311402
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away

>>311402
it doesn't even read as a "p"

>>>/ic/3022388

I thought you were joking...

>>311367
whoever approved that new logo needs to be fired. it's absolutely awful. not to mention how they basically fucked over everyone who already has the old logo on everything.

>>311367
I don't understand why they would ditch the Orange. That shit seems so tied into their design language and what people think when they talk about Patreon. It's like Kickstarter getting rid of the Green.

- it looks like 2 logos in one.
- why is their a gradient/bevel emboss on just the left side of the logo and no where else?
- why is the G touching the W?
- why is a chunk of the bottom left of the second A missing?

overall pretty bad, just hire a designer. when your logo looks like shit your company looks like shit.

You can hire one of us for a redesign or consultation, or leave.

>>313587
That is pure aids, I would love to work on a logo for an agricultural chemical company though so hire me.

>>310084
IDK much about his work I guess but I have watch a few of his lectures and other videos. He knows what he is talking about for sure and I think any designer can probably take something away from listening to him.

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For those who want to be front-end web developers:
https://www.youtube.com/user/DevTipsForDesigners

I uploaded some more or less essential general design learning stuff here:
https://mega.nz/#F!YkNhRLIL!cx4C_hWsuVOW-8K7O8MLtg

>just charge more
whoa he is so enlightened i need to buy all his courses

>client asks for a quote on a logo
>say $250 massively undercutting any kind of professional they would find in their locale
>client says no thanks i got a bunch of $50 offers
>repeat ad infinitum

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Thats sketch style dingus.
Also it doesn't really translate as well to tattoos just because of the amount of bleed you get with the ink unless it's a big piece and it will hurt like fuck.

Go to a tattoo shop, is it really that hard?

>>314153
Hey, fella, be nice.

Was planning to do it in left side on the ribs, like a big chunk... at least 20x20cm.

Yeah sure, i can go to a tattoo shop, but would like to have it on paper first so i can really think about it again.

>>314118
That's the challenge of design. You have to figure out what the client really wants.

Base it on this, if you think an idea is too complicated it probably is. Don't use crazy abstract type faces, don't use an excessive amount of color, dont try to draw something complex for the icon (if there is even an icon at all and it's not just text based)

If you get stuck, use google for inspiration. Don't over think, you'll be fine.

>>314118
>If I was your client, and I came up to you and said, "I want a logo that's minimal," what would you do?
ask more questions instead of relying on some subjective phrase

You might find better suited people on /ic/.

Thank you! Its been a few years since ive been on 4chan.

>>314096
gj leaving the contact details retard

2nd

the rest ail at clarity

1st one is kind of ok, but have outline for "Mr." and fill for "Lonely", cuz i guess it makes more sense in hierarchy of information importance

>>313729
green is to empowering, if it has to have a banana color floor then i suggest not having white text

>>313729
the one you posted is the one that stands out most to me. pretty good imo op

>>313662
I don't have any experience with either, but I see discussion about Gimp and Affinity on this board often enough to recommend researching those, and if they might be suitable for your time to learn in-depth.

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https://www.designer.io

it's free (not as in freedoms tho)

at this rate of development in near future it could replace illustrator

>>313663

gimp is a piece of shit and gimp is a raster graphics editor, not vector

for vectors inkscape isn't half bad and it respects you're freedoms

i guess i could recommend affinity tools for vector and raster editing if you want a suite

if you're on mac you can try pixelmator (raster) and sketch (vector)

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>>313662
>any other option than paying $20 per month for illustrator?
>2017
>paying adobe when you are some dude that doesn't use their software for a living
pic very related

You're overthinking it imo - what you want is a blank template that has the red forehead thingie on the left, right?

Just open up both images (you can probably even do this in Paint), align the left one on top of the right one, and erase the general area around the face. Since they're the exact same except for that one bit you don't even need to be very precise about it.

>>312824
I meant the entire face, not just the red thing.

>>312822
>Is there a program or something somewhere
Photoshop can do that
File>Scripts>Statistics>Median

>>310798
The vector brushes are sweet. It just feels good drawing in AD

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>>310798
search bit about Axure RP or protopie

Stop viral marketing, you dumb Kraut cunt. No design editor would consider your low-budget wannabe programme as having anything to do with the "cusp."

I've been a designer for over a decade and the only place I've ever heard of this software is this board. Hmmm I wonder why I've never once heard an experienced designer mention this programme but on this anonymous forum there are constant threads asking to "share our thoughts."

Well there they are. You guys are second-rate developers and your German amateur programme will never get you anywhere.

looks good but the shirt and feet are a bit off

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>mfw mr. charcoal barbecue

learn about adjustment layers like curves, saturation and color levels to make less obvious that you took the pic with your phone in your bedroom (noticeable desaturation + making things less green and more blue and have high contrast is a cheap trick that kind of works)

use displacement mask filter to wrap the texture of coal around your arms

use select -> color range to extract sparks and place them in front of you, so it appears that your're surrounded by sparks

try a LITTLE BIT of surface blur to on your figure (as clipping mask layer) to hide the photographic noise without affecting the edges of your pic

make edges of your figure blend in better using a layer mask + a soft brush

before applying filters to your figure make it into a smart object, so you don't permanently fuck it up and can adjust things later

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>>313971
also, you can try sort-of-enhancing lighting in your own image using altalux plugin for iranview/xniew

http://www.tommesani.com/index.php/software/altalux-in-irfanview.html