How to make more money as a graphic designer?

Adobe Graphic Design Online Training

Adobe Graphic Design Online Training

Graphic design online training varies from institution to institution, but all good course providers will have an established reputation. Another indicator is the percentage of graduates that secure jobs after completing their course. As a benchmark do not be shy to ask the college or school you are researching how many students find work and how long it took. Blue Sky Graphic from March 2019-December 2019 confirms that 79% of their intake were candidates that found work within 3 months of the course completion.

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How to make more money as a graphic designer?

How to make more money as a graphic designer?

Different ways to make money through graphic design? This article addresses some of the modern-day ways to maximise your skillset as a talented and skilled graphic designer looking to make money online. From working mums, building an e-commerce store to those just wanting some extra cash there are many ways to increase your disposable income.

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What are logos used for? Why are logos important?

What are logos used for? Why are logos important?

Think back to when you remember seeing a famous company logo and think what attracted your eyes to it? Do you recall what you saw first? When we look at something, we don’t read first we take in shape and colour. Once the shape and colour are enough to hold our attention, then we’ll read it. For this reason, the logo is the single most important visual for a company and what the logo represents is as important.

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What is graphic design? Why is graphic design important?

What is graphic design? Why is graphic design important?

So, when you think of graphic design, do you think of artistic advertisements on the streets? Attention-grabbing graphics on websites? Well did you know that graphic design is a service, not a product? For this reason, clients who often have very particular needs are usually met in a very particular way through delivering a bespoke service of visual communication.

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What is Illustrator?

What is Illustrator?

Illustrator is a wonderful piece of kit that has amazing vector editor functions. It can be used to create incredible illustrative artwork, corporate logos, page layouts, website, print designs, and vectors for literally just about anything with which you might need a vector. Images with Illustrator are vector based so it can be scaled to any size without losing quality.

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Why you do not need a degree in Graphic Design

Why you do not need a degree in Graphic Design

Graphic Design is a field like very few that attracts many sorts of people from many sorts of backgrounds. Common to misconception is that graphic designers come from an arts background or needed to have taken a degree in graphic design at university. Much more to the truth is that universities are in fact not nearly as popular as they once were for anyone thinking of studying graphic design as not only is arguably an unnecessary expense but there are many courses and alternative ways of studying.

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Why do companies need Graphic Designers?

Why do companies need Graphic Designers?

Graphic Design studios and design agencies across the UK are in high demand to execute projects for a broad range of work for a many type of businesses. Remember that while a picture may be worth a thousand words, graphic design be worth thousands of pounds in any business. A career in graphic design is often deemed a rewarding way to help companies find their unique identity and graphic designers are often seen as the pioneers of change.

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London Graphic Design

London Graphic Design

London Graphic Design is a huge industry that hosts a variety of Graphic Designers in a multitude of roles across London from marketing role to product design and development. Many of London’s graphic designers are from small but growing start-ups but also in large corporate media companies that use offices around the city. London corporate banks that use Graphic Designers for their media and marketing needs will usually always have a team of London based graphic designers ready.

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What do clients and employers look for in a portfolio?

What do clients and employers look for in a portfolio?

What is the perfect portfolio? What is the most effective way to get new work from your portfolio? In this blog, we interview several tutors at Blue Sky Graphics and seek to dispel common myths about what clients and employers actually look for in a portfolio by offering you some of the best tips from our industry experts and Graphic Design Tutors here at Blue Sky Graphics. We ask four tutors what they think.

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Trusting a Graphic Designer

Trusting a Graphic Designer

Trust in your Graphic Designer explores how we can build kudos and trust through excellence in our work and portfolio. Through that hard-fought mission of earning trust, not only do some of the UK’s leading Graphic Design studios partner with us to up skill their own junior Designers, but many of Britain’s future Graphic Designers entrust us with their time and training requirements.

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Making money from Graphic Design. 6 Tips to Make Extra Money as a Graphic Designer

Graphic Design kit with paint set

Making money from Graphic Design. 6 Tips to Make Extra Money as a Graphic Designer

For Graphic Designers these days there are truly multiple streams of ways to make money on the side. Working as a Graphic Designer is especially suitable for anyone looking for flexi hours or freelance working patterns.If you are still looking for new ways to get some extra money for the creative things we do, I’ve got some solutions that don’t involve having to solely navigate the sticky and sometimes demanding world of taking on traditional client work. This blog is all about other less traditional and innovative ways to make extra cash as a Graphic Designer. Here are our 7 tips

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Photoshop? What is this all about? What is Photoshop Adobe Creative Cloud?

Photoshop? What is this all about? What is Photoshop Adobe Creative Cloud?

Let’s start. Photoshop is a software (Computer programs are referred to as software) that has been created by masterminds at Adobe and it is an important component of almost all the graphic design courses we offer at Blue Sky Graphics but any design studio too. The newest version of Photoshop CC comes with a recent update to version 20 and Photoshop actual uses range from the full-featured editing of large batches of photos to creating elaborate digital paintings and artisan drawings that mimic those done by hand.

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Best Graphic Design Resources

Best Graphic Design Resources

A lot can be said about learning graphic design. Graphic design is one of the most widespread creative career fields today as it naturally lends itself to various job sectors from marketing and advertising, interior design or fashion to IT and web.

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What are online one-to-one lessons?

What are online one-to-one lessons?

Learning graphic design from home (online learning or remote learning), the office, a friend’s place, the pub or wherever else it may be are just a few of reasons why learning online is not only practical and convenient but also easier on the pocket too. Not only can students themselves participate from anywhere in the world, but our expert tutors (some in various parts of the country) can be brought to you in via one to one virtual classroom. Blue Sky Graphics has been going for over 10 years and our tried and tested model works!

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Graphic design courses: Looking for a new profession, upskill or a higher salary?

Graphic design courses: Looking for a new profession, upskill or a higher salary?

If you are new to graphic design, then you are truly welcome. This article seeks to explore some of the reasons why people enter the world of graphic design and what salary to expect. Whether your goal is to change careers, take on a new project, upskill, launch a freelance design business or to work for a multinational corporation, Blue Sky Graphics is the perfect place to build the foundation for your creative career!

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How To Become A Graphic Designer?

How To Become A Graphic Designer?

There are several ways that people go into design from those that study in college or university to others that take an intensive online course like what Blue Sky Graphics offers. However, all great designers start the same way – with an idea (an idea of wanting a Graphic Design career- that is). The question then is: where on earth do you begin?

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WHY STUDY GRAPHIC DESIGN?

WHY STUDY GRAPHIC DESIGN?

Promising career prospects, freelance opportunities, financial gains, love for art and design or just passion for creating the point is that there is plenty of room for artists to express themselves in their work be logos, branding, websites, print etc.

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What are the prospects for Graphic Designers? What salary am I looking at?

What are the prospects for Graphic Designers? What salary am I looking at?

For all of those that have ever wondered what it just might be like on the ‘other’ side this article seeks to demystify any myths, outdated opinions and general false conceptions and lay down the hard-bare facts about working in the creative industry today. In general, graphic designers have three work possibilities when it comes to employment: freelance, In-house or agency.

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