FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
I don't consider it complicated, but I do charge differently for different types of work. For pure print design I charge $30 per hour. For web design I charge $35 per hour. For web development and illustration, I charge $40 per hour. I can provide a bid estimate to clients if they have a large project and need to know what their costs will be.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Always. I'm constantly tinkering with new technology, different languages for web, and new software. While pure design and illustration generally won't change too much, web and mobile technologies will. They've already made leaps and bounds from the early days. But even in illustration and design, there's always new ideas and techniques to be learned. I don't look at education as a drag. I love to learn. It's what makes my career interesting.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
My father, Donald Leo Malick, was a bird illustrator. He was always painting and worked for the Denver Museum of Natural History for many years, even doing a stint in Botswana for the museum. Growing up around art, it was a natural progression for me to get into the field. I do paint, but my main design work is electronicincluding my illustration. I think that the computer is as comfortable to me as acrylics and brushes were to my dad. My sister is also a fantastic artist and the other sister also creative, went to the Culinary Institute of America to become a chef.