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    Question for design/graphics people

    I want to get a pretty cheap flyer/poster design made (basic, but more professional than something I could knock up myself). How do I go about doing this? Are there websites where freelancers and kids hang out to pick up little gigs like this? If so, are there any that stand out as reputable/ethical?

    Google is absolutely rammed full of dodgy looking sites packed with Indians and Pakistanis willing to do things for $2, so I wondered if there's anyone with more knowledge of the scene that can point me in a decent direction.

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    Hire Baz.

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    Freelancer.com

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    Why not pay a Pakistani $2 to do it for you?

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    Peopleperhour is a really good website that I have used for years with good results.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dino View Post
    Why not pay a Pakistani $2 to do it for you?
    Because I'm not an exploitative hyper-capitalist.

    Cheers both.

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    www.obeseaesthetics.com will take your business (no financial incentive, just friends of mine)

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    If you're feeling really tight, you might get someone for about £20 on www.fiverr.com

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    www.obeseaesthetics.com will take your business (no financial incentive, just friends of mine)
    That website is an abomination.

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    i used this website

    https://www.postermywall.com

    and made a fake club flyer for my friend's birthday and it was actually pretty sweet

    only took me like an hour all things considered

    i realize you mentioned you didn't want to do it yourself but take a gander maybe you'll be surprised at what you can accomplish with their templates

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    www.obeseaesthetics.com will take your business (no financial incentive, just friends of mine)
    Fucking hell.

    Imagine getting your web design work done by people who've chosen that nightmare for themselves.

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    How are you lot viewing that site? It looks pretty good to me on my mobile.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    How are you lot viewing that site? It looks pretty good to me on my mobile.
    Yeah I was just about to say the same.

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    I'm on mobile and it's two full screen scrolls before you reach an idea of what the company does, and four before you reach an example of their work.

    Scroll down until you have the orange bar at the top followed immediately by the 'What we do' header and tell me that wouldn't be a better landing page.

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    It wouldn't.

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    It's essentially a "street" design kinda thing. Looks pretty cool tbh, but i don't think that's up Jiminy's alley

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    Why isn't a rundown of what you do right up front better than a pointless little graphic?

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    Aren't all graphics pointless, if you really think about it? All forms of expression could be in binary.

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    It looks like one of those powerpoint presentations people did at high school when they had just worked out how to add the fancy page transitions and animations.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    Why isn't a rundown of what you do right up front better than a pointless little graphic?
    Because who wants to look at a block of text on the splash screen of a design agency?

    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    It looks like one of those powerpoint presentations people did at high school when they had just worked out how to add the fancy page transitions and animations.
    No it doesn't.

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    5 years ago you'd be calling it capitalist arrogance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mugbull View Post
    It's essentially a "street" design kinda thing. Looks pretty cool tbh, but i don't think that's up Jiminy's alley
    On the contrary, that endorsement from 'Verbal Skillz' has got me reaching for the credit card.

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    There’s a homeless charity here and one of the main “ambassadors” is a bloke easily in his late-40s who always wears a skeleton bandana over the lower half of his face, who goes purely by Drunk Wolf.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post

    No it doesn't.
    Yes it does.

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    Stuff like the above is exactly why being a designer is such a pain. Clients think they know better.

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    Why do the options on the menu cross themselves out when you hover over them? Why do we need a full-page transition animation every time you click to a different page? It's just distracting and doesn't serve any purpose.

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    As I'm not the designer I don't have a clue. If I was to make up an answer I'd say that every piece of the site comes with animations to show potential clients they can do that sort of work? None of that is hurting page load speed or anything. They make good money from animation projects so it's probably worth highlighting it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    If I was to make up an answer I'd say that every piece of the site comes with animations to show potential clients they can do that sort of work?
    I'd agree with this. Agency sites are quite often overly flashy because it's the sort of stuff that the majority of clients love, regardless of whether it's "correct" or not.

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    Designer solidarity > *.

    The whole industry is a whole bunch of sniping at each other about how you're better than this one or that one or you should have got that contract not them. The only thing that brings us together are shitty clients (all of them).

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    The thing that bugs me about web design criticism in general is that anyone not involved in the project has no idea about the strategy, the budget, the client, or anything else that goes into shaping the end product. They simply judge the website as if it had unlimited resources and is targeted at them.

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    It's almost like websites are for the people that visit them, not the arseholes who think they know what people want.

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    Mate if I want a phone plugged in, I might ask you which way around the cord goes. Otherwise, I'm not interested.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SvN View Post
    Mate if I want a phone plugged in, I might ask you which way around the cord goes. Otherwise, I'm not interested.
    What makes you think he'd know?

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    Sadly architects take all of these arguments and more to justify building structures that blight us all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SvN View Post
    Mate if I want a phone plugged in, I might ask you which way around the cord goes. Otherwise, I'm not interested.
    I'd forward that to one of my engineers.

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