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Starting Your Career as a Freelance Illustrator or Graphic Designer
by Michael Fleishman
For anyone who wants to establish a new career as a freelance designer or illustrator, here’s the definitive resource! This valuable guide is packed with expert tips and success techniques for getting started, selling your work, promoting yourself, and even what to do once you’re working.
Up-and-coming freelancers will also discover practical guidance for creating a portfolio, making initial contacts, developing a financial plan, acquiring supplies and equipment, pricing work, and even marketing on the Web. Plus, special chapters are devoted to selling work to magazines, ad agencies, book publishers, greeting card companies, small businesses, and more.
Beginning professionals, working professionals who want to make a change, and entrepreneurs who want to go out on their own will find everything they need in this friendly, easy-to-use guide |
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Reviews
“Insightful, comprehensive, original, and highly practical. An invaluable guide for anyone already in or considering being part of the commercial art world. I highly recommend Michael Fleishman’s terrific work.”
—Steven R. Schubert, National Executive Director, the Graphic Artists Guild
“At last, an excellent guide for the demanding and challenging world of the freelancer. Michael Fleishman’s book is packed with savvy tips and extremely useful forms for running a successful small business.”
—Roz Goldfarb, President, Roz Goldfarb Associates and author, Careers by Design
“Fleishman’s book brims with essential information and quick tips, and his tone is so friendly you’ll feel he wrote this book just for you.”
—Robin Landa, Partner, IdeaWorks, and author of Graphic Design Solutions and Thinking Creatively
“A great deal of information obtained only by the ‘live and learn’ method is packed into the book’s chapters.”
—The Artist Magazine
“As good an introduction to the complexities of artistic self-employment as you are likely to find . . . Michael Fleishman puts a wealth of practical information at the fingertips of designers who want to dive into owning and operating their own studios.”
—GAG National Newsletter
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