Free lance designer

I am starting my work as a free lance designer after receiving training from distinctive publishing's training department through a creative and digital media apprenticeship. I will be using a website called 'DesignCrowd' to help me find paying work as it is a design network where people looking for designers to create logo's, banners, websites etc can go and find someone to design these for them.

The first thing i needed to do when using this network is to create an account using the register button in the top right corner:

As you can see when you register with design crowd you have the choice to register as a designer or as a customer looking for designers. Once i made my account i started looking through the different briefs till i found an idea i would like to work on:

This is a brief for a company called GenerationVegas which is a non profit organisation in Las Vegas. The brief describes a little about the company and what they do, as well as what they want from there logo and how they want it to represent them. The briefing also shows how many designs have been submitted so far, how many days left you have to submit a design and how much they are paying the designer for who's idea they choose as well as any participation payments being issued.

After reading the briefing i worked on creating my first design for the logo using photoshop, this is the idea i came up with:

I went back onto the briefing page and clicked on 'Submit a design' which asks you to describe why you like this design and why you think it is suitable as well as which fonts you used, if they were standard fonts or downloaded or your own fonts, and i added into my description that i can change the colour scheme  if they would prefer it another way.




















Another website similar to Designcrowd.com  that has lists of jobs available for free lance designers is "http://www.freelancer.com/jobs/Logo-Design/"