How to Start a Graphic Design Business

It is not an easy decision to transform yourself from being an employee to being your own boss. One starts by working as freelancer, where one gets to know the depths of the sea. And transforming oneself into one's own boss is an important step to success to web designing world. If you think that being your own boss will relieve you from the work load and stress which you had when you were a freelancer, then you are wrong. If you have finally decided to start your own business, then be ready to take on the responsibility of achieving/making turnover, dealing with clients, accounting, etc. So you better decide first what you want from your web business and based on that, set your targets. Below are some useful tips that can help you start your graphic design business: Name of Business: The name of your business should be the one which make you sound professional as the clients always prefer to deal with professionals than with those who are working from home with cramped desk around.

Marketing Materials: Market yourself and your business with professionally designed business cards. This will make a good first impression of you from your clients.

Start Networking: Meet with other business professionals. Join their business communities. Get to know them and see where you stand and what you need to do raise the level of your business. Market your business in that network to increase the potential for business referrals.

Pricing: Your pricing structure should be fair and in line with your competitors. Usually, 50 to 100 dollars is being charged per hour. Anything less than 50 dollars will destine your business to fail.

Get a Website: Get your own company's website where clients can see/get samples of your work. A website is one of the very effective tools to market your products and show your portfolio off. Search Engine Optimization and Pay Per Click are some of the examples of online marketing. Hire a professional who is well versed in website designing.

Security: As a security, ask for the 50 percent of contract price as security deposit, as most designers do to make sure that the client is trustable and you will be paid at least half the money for the valuable time you have spent on client's project.

These are some vital tips, which should be considered when starting out on your own as specialized graphic designer. The road to entrepreneurship can be tricky; however will provide you many advantages. If you work in the direction of your objectives with attentiveness, you will be on your path to victory.

Typographic Posters by Áron Jancsó

It is true that most of the time, artists discover create their most stunning pieces by accident or by random experimentation. Sometimes, the most unexpected result is more appreciated than those that are carefully planned and polished. Experimenting on various possibilities are always true in the design industry. Typography for instance is one great example where the power of imagination in experimenting is an advantage. One amazing designer whose works are products of playful experiments from scratch is Áron Jancsó. The Hungarian designer considers himself as a type addict who loves the use of shapes and structures in his typography and poster design projects. He describes his style as a blend of modernism, street culture and calligraphy. His unique works has already been published in various international publications, and been a part of different exhibits and lectures. Áron is very popular with his typography concepts mostly in amazing poster designs. And today in You The Designer, we showcase some of his amazing typographic posters to get us inspired from his creative awesomeness. Enjoy! Check out more of Áron Jancsó’s works in his official website or his Behance page for the latest updates on his projects.

Creative Logo Designs For Restaurant Theme - 30 Logos

Today we are sharing some of Restaurant themed logo designs. It must be helpful for logo designers to see different creative ideas.
Please share with your friends to reach all the designers.

 

Staircase to Visualise HTML5

Without wasting much of time, we can cut the introduction of HTML 5 in short, it is the future of the internet world. Let’s suck it up and get on some facts. If you are not using HTML5 then there could be reasons like, it is not completely adopted by people yet, you love writing the HTML5 codes, your IE doesn’t support HTML5 or it could be any other such probable reason. Whatever the reason is, whether you like this format or not, the truth that you need to gulp is, HTML5 is the latest version of HTML that will soon dominate the whole intenet world. HTML 5 caters some superior and top-notch multimedia options within a web page like Graphics and Audio processing, that would surely get web developers hands on it, which HTML4 was unable to do, moreover working on such amazing stuff was impossible to imagine with HTML4. Hence, to make you experience the amazing functionality of HTML5, we have three-stage staircase, which on climbing, will lead you to know – how to create Audio visualisation within a HTML5 web page. First Stage of Staircase: To Create Audio Visualisation Creativity and uniqueness always attract the eye and sometimes serve as the key to success as well. Keeping that in mind, first thing that we need to carry out is develop an idea. An idea should be developed so creatively and uniquely that it suits best with the audio file. For those who are not aware of the details of HTML5, let us tell you that a new tag has been added to HTML5 with the help of which we can facilely manipulate any audio file incorporated in the webpage. You must be wondering what does this new tag offer? This tag supplies a media player for audio file that delivers a media player structure with time, volume control and other exciting features. But we are focusing over the visualisation part and these features are not enough to create visualisation. Audio visualisation is not a child’s play, it requires synchronisation with an audio file. This process of audio visualisation involves the extraction of the audio data from the audio file which can be extracted from a file using the pre-processor that can efficiently be used later for the coding purpose. Second Stage of Staircase: To Build Visual Graphics This stage demands concentration. Before we start with the infixing of the visualisation with an audio file, we need to sketch out the graphical resources that are essential and would be required for the visualisation. In this stage the designing part comes into play mainly. Those who are planning to create lyrics based visualisation, need to focus on the design of the backdrop (where the lyrics will appear) of the page. To carry out the lyrics visualisation, you will have to create the timeline record of the lyrics. Here, synchronisation should be given a bit of attention, because if the timeline of the lyrics is not perfectly synchronised with the audio stream, it would create an embarrassing visualisation. Hence, synchronisation is not what you can sneeze at, it is the core element to escape the embarrassment. If carrying out such task is difficult for you, you need not worry! You can go for wave based visualisation that would exhibit wave peaks with high volume; it is simpler and easier to develop as it requires minimal graphic resources. Although we can use sample colors or textures to create waves, but for such visualisations nothing can be done without an audio data. It acts as an essential element to create wave based visualisation. Third Stage of Staircase: To Build the Code for Visualisation Of course this kind of visualisation can be carried out with different approaches, but it embeds some basic logic which cannot be let fall between the cracks. No doubt, HTML5 has provided us more than we could have ever imagined from a HTML code. But that does not mean that we can ignore the bitter truth that HTML5 is just a designing language that lacks the logical coding features. Hence, JavaScript, jQuery and CSS is what we require. With the help of simple Java Array, we can effortlessly infix the audio data with lyrics, synch or volume graph. This is how one can design visualisation by using HTML5 tag without getting into the back-breaking task of creating flash animation or abundant graphical resource.