Claireification Design
- Portland, OR 97223 (map)
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Claireification Design • via Phone or Internet • $30-60 per hour
- You'll be asked a few quick questions that will help describe your needs.
- You'll be asked to provide your contact information so that Claire Brown will be able to get in touch with you.
- You'll have the option to get competing quotes from other qualified service professionals, saving you time and money.
Let an innovative artist help you with your designing needs! I am Claire, a 2010 graduate from BYU-Idaho with a Bachelors of Fine Art in Graphic Design.
I have experience creating logos, business cards, brochures, booklets, packaging labels, posters, websites, wedding invitations, and much more.
I am fluent in the Adobe Creative suite, and competent with HTML and CSS.
Reviews
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May 12, 2011
Claire has created truly beautiful work. She is a natural and goes above and beyond to do what the client needs. Rates are really reasonable too. She's a regular on my list of freelance designers.
– Lauren
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April 27, 2011
With our in-house team up against too many deadlines, we employed Claire to design and create several ads for us, each with highly specific requirements. Not only did Claire capture the essence of our concept brilliantly, she completed each assignment in a very efficient manner - responding quickly to all communications and having projects completed well before deadlines. She's a valuable asset to any company!
Jean - Leisure Sales & Marketing Manager - PeakTravel Group– Jean
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April 27, 2011
Claireification helped design our new business cards and our pamphlets. I am very glad that I worked with Claireification because they brought a unique twist to what I was already wanting to do and made our advertising materials unique from the run of the mill.
– Brandon
Question and answer
Q. What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A. If you want the most out of your design, don't just have a visual goal in mind. Think of the message you want to tell your clients. While the output of graphic designers is visual, there is a lot of thought that goes into it (at least, a lot of thought should go into it). An image, can express your company or product's mindset, it's goals, it's public-relations, it's uniqueness, etc.
While a picture of a frog in your logo may look super-rad, it may not be the right subject for what message you really want your clients to get out of it.
You hire a trained graphic designer to create for something visually great, and that gets the right message across.
Q. Why does your work stand out from others who do what you do?
A. I believe in being innovative with my design. There are successful trends and styles, but following the pack doesn't equate to design that stands out. My ultimate goal is to create work that my client's clients will notice amongst the white noise. Not in a radical way, but in a thoughtful, conceptual way.
Q. What do you like most about your job?
A. Ever since I was a little girl I have loved art. From drawing to creating Barbie furniture out of cardboard, I felt so much gratification from being able to create ideas from my head into actual work. In studying design, it's history, concepts and practices, I found that I have never been more enthralled with any other subject.
Q. What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?
A. "How much do you charge?"
For design work, this answer is not easy because each project is so much more different that the one before and after it. One poster may require a full detailed illustration, while another may need only a single word on a plain white sheet. The range of prices can be fairly drastic.
It doesn't hurt to have a budget in mind when looking for a designer. Often they will ask if you have one.
Feel free to ask your designer what they consider when pricing, and you can get a quote for a project before signing on with a designer.
For me, when pricing, I consider the following:
1. Expected time involved (besides the time to do the actual design, I estimate the to send e-mails, visit the printer for proofs, and basic office leg work.)
2. Experience and expertise as a designer (look at their portfolio - do you think they're experienced and an expert?)
3. The going rate of the project (I refer to the "Graphic Artist's Guild Handbook of Pricing and Ethical Guidelines" as well as AIGA surveys and other Graphic Design organization studies of pricing)
