When I Design For Free
I’m a supporter of the No Spec campaign and never under any circumstances work for free, and indeed without a deposit, however with the exception of registered charities.
A few weeks ago I was unduly flattered when I was approached by Cancer Research UK to design posters and more for their campaign in my local town, who advised they were looking for a creative designer (they probably asked everyone and I was probably the only half decent designer who said yes! ha ha).
I was aware the poster was to be placed in our local shopping centre and hadn’t thought much about it a week or so after sending their print supplier the final files, when my husband came back from the local library with our children brandishing the poster at me in A5 flyer format. So that’s where these photographs originate from.
However Cancer Research is the first charity to actually even consider offering me some free advertising for my efforts and therefore for the first time ever I have a little ‘designed by’ icon at the bottom of the poster design. You can see that in the image above, so a bit of recognition was nice in this instance.
Other designs created for free for charities in the past include;
February 20th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Nice work again Amanda. I really like the grpahics on there
February 20th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Thanks
March 16th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
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March 17th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Great work Amanda!
I can see from reading your blog you know your stuff. I enjoyed reading your section on becoming a freelancer.
March 17th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Thanks, appreciated
I’ll pop over to your blog now and have a looksy.
Amanda
November 25th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Amanda,
That was a nice gesture from the Charity, and from the quality of work; you deserve it.
Good Luck
Abdo
November 26th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Thanks
I did another event poster for them last week actually, you can see that at; http://www.trulyace.com/corporateprintdesign.html
Some new charity work I’ll be doing in the coming weeks is a logo and web design for Save The Zulu charity.