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Helpful Hints to Finding New Graphic Design Jobs and Clients

max@maxhdesign.com (Max Huchthausen) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:32:00 +0000

It's certainly a daunting task to find new graphic design jobs and clients. Some helpful hints that I have found to 'pay off' are listed below:

Have your own functional and professional website - A web presence to showcase your work and business purpose is certainly number one on the list.
Have business cards available - at all times, you should have business cards ready to hand out to anyone who shows interest in hiring you. This helps to ensures that they remember you once they get home.
Word of Mouth - whenever you are out, strike up conversation about your work and ask if the people you are talking to have graphics needs or if they know of anyone who does.
Job postings - search the postings for jobs that are actually in your skill-set. There are so many sites dedicated to this purpose, it's staggering. The only problem with this approach is that those jobs are being viewed by a significant amount of competitors.
On line contests - I found several websites that host graphic design contests for money. They are highly competitive, but usually pay off if you have the skills.
Social Media - I'm talking about business here, not hooking up. This is an invaluable, and often times free, tool for those looking to get the word out about there business.

These are just a few of the ways I look for work new clients and jobs. If you have more suggestions, please feel free to leave comments.

- Max

New Advertisement/Collateral piece

max@maxhdesign.com (Max Huchthausen) — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:05:00 +0000

I just added a new Advertisement / Collateral piece to my site. It's a promotional $750 postcard-type piece that I did for Sensory Overload Music.
http://www.maxhdesign.com/Collateral_pages/graphic_design_9.html

New Game Concept Art

max@maxhdesign.com (Max Huchthausen) — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:51:00 +0000

I just added a new concept art piece to my portfolio. It's titled "skewered" and it's a little gross. It's an illustration of a soldier who gets impaled or "skewered" and refuses to die. Check it out.

Computers Make You Crazy

max@maxhdesign.com (Max Huchthausen) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:00:00 +0000

I am a graphic designer, and, as such, the computer is a very useful tool in my work.
But, the Computer can make you crazy...
I'll explain.

One definition that I heard for the word "crazy" was:

Doing the same action, over and over, expecting different results.

There are many actions that I perform on a repetitive basis when using the computer for work. I print documents, export files, and run programs in the exact same way you would. It is the exception to the rule that, sometimes, out of the blue, the action that you have been doing in one way ceases to work, and you have to try something else to do what you have done a hundred times before. Well, this could easily make you expect different result from doing a repetitive action... see... crazy!

Just for fun...
- Max Huchthausen

Always Updating

max@maxhdesign.com (Max Huchthausen) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:07:00 +0000

I have just altered my site to optimize my portfolio viewing/navigation on screens with lower resolution. http://www.maxhdesign.com/portfolio.html is the link.

Technorati submission

max@maxhdesign.com (Max Huchthausen) — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:10:00 +0000

Technorati Profile

Resume Up and Running

max@maxhdesign.com (Max Huchthausen) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:12:00 +0000

Hello everyone,
I just created a new page that displays my Resume on my site.
click the link (title of this entry) to see my Resume.
Thanks for your support...
- Max

New FAQs Section

max@maxhdesign.com (Max Huchthausen) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:46:00 +0000

My newly published FAQs Section is up and running...
If you have any questions that you have wanted to ask a professional graphic designer, e-mail me at max@maxhdesign.com and I will put your question on my FAQs page.

More Updates All The Time

max@maxhdesign.com (Max Huchthausen) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:53:00 +0000

My new FAQs section is up and in development...
If you have any questions that you have wanted to ask a graphic designer, e-mail me and I might include your question on my site.

Figure Drawing

max@maxhdesign.com (Max Huchthausen) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:27:00 +0000

If you like figure drawing, check out the link above!

Newly Updated Game Concept pages

max@maxhdesign.com (Max Huchthausen) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:24:00 +0000

My game concept pages have been updated with new content.

max@maxhdesign.com (Max Huchthausen) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:39:00 +0000

Hello world...
I've finally created a blog to get the word out about MaxHDesign.com.
I just redesigned my entire site! Cool, cool, cool.