Struggling to get going and landing a design job..

I currently finished a 6 month contract at a marketing company straight out of uni and have been looking for another graphic design job ever since.

I am UK based near the London so jobs wise it's very good for me. But I am struggling to land interviews for design Jobs.

I feel I have a strong starting portfolio gradually building onnit in my spare time. I also have html & CSS experience which is what most graphic design Jobs seem to want from my experience in looking.

Anywhere I should focus on looking websites etc? Currently looking on indeed mostly and big company sites like TUI, Tesco, etc.

Thanks guys!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 31, 2018 at 04:03PM by JackRid https://ift.tt/2L85FA6

What to consider when choosing colors for data visualization

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 31, 2018 at 01:39PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2sxLLaa

A unique deck of cards I'm working on - every back is different

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 31, 2018 at 09:34AM by Splitlimes https://ift.tt/2LKJYHe

this nice book cover.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 30, 2018 at 01:54PM by milotheweirdo https://ift.tt/2sq7PmT

Time to Grow up – the Evolution of our SaaS Product’s Logo

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 30, 2018 at 02:08PM by noelster https://ift.tt/2LDkWKl

Custom Monogram + Wordmark + Animation

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 30, 2018 at 09:57AM by ZachWinterton https://ift.tt/2kyYh5t

I made an easing gradient editor plugin for Sketch — would love some test/feedback

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 30, 2018 at 08:53AM by andreaslarsen https://ift.tt/2IZWyFa

I fixed up the Citi Bike logo

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 29, 2018 at 07:29PM by afcwebdesign https://ift.tt/2LG6hhA

New Logo for Indy 500

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 29, 2018 at 06:08PM by westondeboer https://ift.tt/2kCrJYx

Rediscovering Apple's 1987 Identity Guidelines

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 29, 2018 at 03:58PM by ddrmaxgt37 https://ift.tt/2LGVxPF

Girlfriend drew this today, thought it looked sleek.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 28, 2018 at 05:51PM by Croww_ https://ift.tt/2sd5bSa

Typesetting Resources for Long-Form Web Content?

Hey Guys,

Not the most exciting question, but I am working with a client that wants to elegantly put long-form text online, but I am a at a bit of a loss.

Does anyone have some links to resources that I can use either for reference or training in regards to long-form content like book chapters and how they can be be best utilized on the web or on ebooks with different screen sizes? I am working with a client that wants to elegantly put long-form text online, but I am a at a bit of a loss.

Thanks so much for the help, please feel free to send anything my way, be it tutorials, examples, resources, tools, you name it - I'm interested!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 28, 2018 at 04:37PM by Antifolio https://ift.tt/2siEFGc

Does anyone here have experience designing/selling tee shirts online?

I'd like to set up an online store with my designs, but I want to make sure the quality of the shirts themselves is high. I'm talking nice fit, comfy, not too scratchy. There don't seem to be many resources comparing Tee Spring to Cafe Press to Zazzle etc. etc. etc. Anyone have experience/advice with this sort of thing?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 28, 2018 at 03:21PM by thomasmost https://ift.tt/2sqoGWT

My student project might be adapted into the real world. How do I get compensated fairly?

Hey! So I just graduated college a few weeks ago and on a whim, I forwarded my student branding project to the restaurant I rebranded during my time at school (a local business), just to let them know it's out there and wondering if they wanted to take a look at it. They said they liked it and asked me to give them a call this week.

I wanted to prepare in case they were interested in wanting to adopt the branding, or parts of it (a logo, menu design, takeout packaging, and social media). I've been trying to ballpark something reasonable for both me as a grad trying to make money, and a small business with their first opportunity to have a solid, cohesive brand.

I figured I would ask some other designers about their experiences or what to consider/look out for. I've been looking over the Graphic Artists Guild handbook for advice, but I figured since restaurant branding is pretty common, this sub could have some good advice!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 27, 2018 at 07:34PM by jean_kirschfine https://ift.tt/2LAclrR

A better way to collect and organize your design inspiration and reference footage. Would you use this tool?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 27, 2018 at 06:12PM by liaai0630 https://ift.tt/2JatCcI

Photoshop CC Tutorial : Brush Effect Portrait | Photo Editing

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 27, 2018 at 06:40PM by neresobeco https://ift.tt/2GWbZrT

Print Jobs

I'm looking to get a job at a print shop this summer. The problem is I can't tell which job openings require significant experience. Obviously I can look at the description and avoid jobs that require more than 2 years of experience, but it would help if I could filter out jobs myself based on the title. Every time I google entry level or job types I'm just met by job search engines.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 27, 2018 at 02:26PM by VirtualStealth https://ift.tt/2GXKX3y

If any Designer here wants an invite to join Dribbble, here is your opportunity!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 26, 2018 at 07:53PM by AdwolfDesigns https://ift.tt/2xhRIxo

Your BRAND + your STORY - An opinion on why you should use your personal story to insprie your brand design

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 26, 2018 at 05:47PM by TohirT https://ift.tt/2IQzGnp

You know that UX Architect that asked if there was any interest in a UX stream a few days ago? Well, I just went live.. so come and ask some questions.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 26, 2018 at 05:43PM by RonUSMC https://ift.tt/2ktFrwI

Opening a Garden Center/Farm Stand. How should I paint the outside? Any tips?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 26, 2018 at 03:34PM by italianking13 https://ift.tt/2Ly2hQ8

Simplistic Solo Poster [C&C Welcome]

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 25, 2018 at 07:27PM by fred1840 https://ift.tt/2J6luKk

The Hidden Cost of Touchscreens – Amber Case

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 25, 2018 at 06:33PM by geekteam6 https://ift.tt/2kuBFTT

Free posters/wallpapers! Feed back is more than welcomed!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 25, 2018 at 03:28PM by Trefman https://ift.tt/2s5kTPo

Works In Progress Discussion - /r/Design Official Post

Share what you're working on at work, for a client, or on your own. Top comments must have an image or link to the work in progress

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 25, 2018 at 02:05PM by AutoModerator https://ift.tt/2KVGtMT

Reddit co-founder tells TNW about the sneaky design trick it decided to abandon

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 25, 2018 at 12:53PM by thefunkylemon https://ift.tt/2xbW7Sj

Cool Backgrounds for desktop

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 25, 2018 at 09:11AM by tcinn https://ift.tt/2sa77tS

Philip Roth’s other legacy: a revolution in cover design

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 24, 2018 at 06:49PM by koavf https://ift.tt/2KPilvA

duotones - create beautiful duotone effects instantly in your browser

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 24, 2018 at 06:51PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2LrRAyr

Please check out our flat pack no fuss Fuzl furniture, this has been a long time coming!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 24, 2018 at 06:07PM by haztheo https://ift.tt/2J3sNSV

Morality aside, is it legal to fully steal the logo/branding, etc of a defunct company?

Is the corporate identity of an organization that is no longer active up for grabs for poaching? Asking from the US/Canada

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 24, 2018 at 04:36PM by brohmania https://ift.tt/2GMKnFx

What I learned from the $2,000 elusive design book “Designing Programmes”

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 24, 2018 at 02:58PM by magenta_placenta https://ift.tt/2IKOyrv

[Advice/Question] Need a theme idea/specific pictures for basic game board... Grade 12

Hi guys!

I have a grade 12 coding assessment where i'm tasked to create a very basic game board, both teams have 3 players each and have to defeat the other players or get more gems than the other team, scattered across the birds-eye viewed board.

My problem: I have no idea what I should grab online for my splash screen or background image for the theme of the game, i'm hopeless with theme ideas or design, even if its not myself creating the design, i'm awful with decision in general.

Any ideas? It will not be redistributed so as long as i acknowledge creator, copyright will not be an issue.

Thanks in advance!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 24, 2018 at 11:12AM by Saradomian https://ift.tt/2s3Lcp4

Where can I find icons such as the ones below?

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Fing, the network app uses these icons, and they look a bit generic and I was hoping there was an Icon pack out there someone knew of or recognized these from that I can make use of for these.

Thanks!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 23, 2018 at 07:12PM by heyfrank https://ift.tt/2x6FUxS

Another animated logo I made recently. The live version randomly resizes the 'raster' lines individually.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 23, 2018 at 07:05PM by vmcreative https://ift.tt/2IEpd25

This is the Vatican City's first ever participation at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 23, 2018 at 04:42PM by nationcrafting https://ift.tt/2KOS5By

As a Senior UX Architect, I'm exploring ways of connecting with the newer UX crowd, or people thinking of getting into UX. Would you guys be interested in a live stream/chat of me giving you feedback on your designs?

We could do it on Twitch and people could join Discord. You could present your design/ideas and I could give feedback as well as others in chat could give you feedback. I would prefer not to give you free feedback on your products/businesses, but whatever I guess. It's all good.

So you don't feel all exposed, I can show some of my designs that the NDA has been lifted on and everyone can give feedback.

About Me:

As far as UX goes, I'm about as experienced as it gets. Steve Jobs was my manager for 3 years at Apple when I worked on the iPhone v1. Then Microsoft for Surface/Windows/XBOX, then Bloomberg, then Microsoft, now JPMorgan.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 23, 2018 at 02:36PM by RonUSMC https://ift.tt/2IG5dwe

Best career advice

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 23, 2018 at 12:28PM by tlemaitre https://ift.tt/2IFJULd

I want to make a word cloud for a design. Are there any easy ways? Thank you.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 23, 2018 at 11:36AM by ____ACHIYA____ https://ift.tt/2x3RnhR

A Few Simple But Creative Everyday Japanese Food Packaging Designs (vlog like video)

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 23, 2018 at 08:03AM by thisdesignup https://ift.tt/2IHmjFZ

Record Label Logos

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 22, 2018 at 06:09PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2IzAhxs

A Newbie here.. I want to design a T Shirt. Any advices? (What are the standards, how to send the design to print, etc) Thank you.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 22, 2018 at 02:54PM by ____ACHIYA____ https://ift.tt/2KINv7Q

How to make your design stand out in case of generic and overused brand names?

Say I have a client who has a burger joint, John's Burger Joint. How do I make their identity (logo, typeface etc) stand out from thousands of burger joints that already have a burger icon in their logo? In other words, what Design decisions make an identity unique in common/over-used fields?

PS: I'm a newbie in Design and just wanted to discuss this, sorry if it is not the right place.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 22, 2018 at 02:17PM by jsks1 https://ift.tt/2kdoPJk

Looking for gigs

Trying to get some work drawing, still building my portfolio so I know I have a ways to go...

Instagram is @doodlesaurusrex

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 22, 2018 at 11:30AM by rummydearest https://ift.tt/2rYvXh8

[Request] Beautiful redditors of r/Design, lend me your help!

I am currently working on a paper for my final exam, and I need some help finding a good online source for gestalt principles within design.

I am trying to link it with kids, creativity, education and subliminal design, where I have had two different middle school classes from different grades (which are kept anonymous) shade a drawing I gave them, just to see how they would do.
The drawing I did is very gestalt theoretic, with a lot of unfinished forms of faces and figures, and it was intention to see if the kids would not only actively try to find the figures, but also what they would emphasize.

I am asking for this as I have no good textbooks right now that can be easily referred to, and my deadline is approaching way faster than I was first informed.

If you want to see what sort of drawing it was, it was this one:
https://i.imgur.com/XnETRtk.png
As you can see, you can flip and rotate it as you want yourself, and still find new forms and faces. Can you see what I mean about it following gestalt principles, especially the "finishing principle"?

Thank you for your help, I deeply appreciate it.

(and if a mod finds this post unsuitable, then I may kindly ask for where I can go on reddit for this information.)

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 22, 2018 at 10:50AM by trinketstone https://ift.tt/2KIZwdm

Meet The New Windows XP 2018 Edition

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 21, 2018 at 04:01PM by BhaveshShaha https://ift.tt/2GBjapr

Question about designing for apparel

I was contacted about one of my drawings being used on a T-shirt and they offered 30% of the profit from each shirt sold. I’ve never done this before and have no idea what the norm is, if that is a good percentage or if I should ask for more. Any advice?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 21, 2018 at 12:33PM by rummydearest https://ift.tt/2IyzRrg

We are a design studio based in Mexico, I would love to read your comments on our first project!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 20, 2018 at 10:53PM by kailelelep https://ift.tt/2rUE8eg

Anyone know what kind of effect this is and how to digitally replicate

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 20, 2018 at 10:13PM by JordanFALLON https://ift.tt/2Lf4648

What's this type of gradient effect called and is there a tutorial on how to replicate it?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted May 20, 2018 at 09:08PM by TheOtherHawkeye https://ift.tt/2wWUAzB