And what´s the problem with fake logos? It doesn´t matter if is fake, what it matters is the quality, the process, AND specially if there is no client is a good way to show samples.

Your entire site and articles are extremely helpful, and I completely agree that you get what you pay for in this and any industry.

Considering this article about how to choose a good logo designer, could you offer insight as to how one might represent themselves as a worthwhile designer when just starting out on their own?

I have been in my current position for nearly 14 years in the IT industry working for a manufacturer and early on I developed a graphics department within my own department for them so we could produce our own in house graphics to cut costs. Since graphic design has always been a passion of mine, and I was fairly good at it, it became the focus of my job here. I have taken many courses for graphic design, concepts and layout as well as learned much on my own over the years and and have used those skills to provide branding, marketing and catalogue materials for not only my company but also our customers as part of our point of sale product programs we offer them. (We are an apparel company.)

I’ve recently decided I would like to branch out on my own in graphic design but my dilemma lies in the fact that everything I have designed over the last 14 years does not belong to me as being the “designer” and therefore I am not allowed to use it as part of a portfolio. So I am essentially starting with nothing, unless I were to fabricate some designs to showcase my skills.

How would someone like myself garner the trust of first time clients in order to begin building my individual portfolio?

Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

~Samantha

#6: some of the clients don’t want to believe that what they pay is what they get, or they know that is true in their subconscious but choose to ignore it because it is they’re money.

Of course the designer need to now either what he can offer, and to know the market.

cheers.

I’d go for the one without the window dressing, they’ll be cheaper.

anyway personally i feel today’s designer do a lot of design work across the board (depends on their skill sets) so it there such a thing as a logo designer in today’s cut throat’s market?