TE
TechEcho
Home24h TopNewestBestAskShowJobs
GitHubTwitter
Home

TechEcho

A tech news platform built with Next.js, providing global tech news and discussions.

GitHubTwitter

Home

HomeNewestBestAskShowJobs

Resources

HackerNews APIOriginal HackerNewsNext.js

© 2025 TechEcho. All rights reserved.

Ask HN: How to find remote freelance work for a graphic designer?

3 pointsby galenkoover 9 years ago
Short: my girlfriend is a good graphic designer, her account on Elance of 2 years got closed for no reason and now she doesn&#x27;t know where to turn to.<p>Long: I&#x27;m a developer (I do everything from server management to psd to template to html to php to ruby etc), 6 years in office experience (London, Hoxton), around 4 years freelance. Since I started working freelance, I wanted to have a good designer as my go-to person, could find someone reliable and good enough for my standards. So I made my girlfriend who was always good at drawing (fresh out of uni with an unrelated masters at the time) learn photoshop, illustrator and a few other tools. She&#x27;s ace with vector graphics, her psd&#x2F;ai files are a pleasure to work with, she&#x27;s creative and intelligent (I&#x27;m biased, but seriously). I actually managed to pull it off and make her a good designer for a developer to work with.<p>This worked well for us, for the last 2 years, she would help me out when I needed her and find work via Elance when I didn&#x27;t need any design services.<p>In the last few months, I&#x27;ve been focusing more on optimising and reworking existing applications, making them faster and more efficient for my ongoing clients, so I haven&#x27;t needed a designer for a while and about a week ago, Elance closed her account out of the blue, her feedback was flawless, great ratings, top 10% on lots of tests. We tried emailing them a few times, but after googling and finding out that they just drop hordes of accounts from time to time we understood that it&#x27;s a complete waste of time.<p>So I ask you HN, where could I point her? I feel as a failed partner for having her change the course of her professional career and now seeing it come to a very abrupt stop.

1 comment

DebasishPandaover 9 years ago
Did she setup a portfolio site apart from Elance? If she got that then may be post the link here, good designers are always in demand. Or provide a way for people to contact her&#x2F;you.<p>I&#x27;ll check with our team&#x27;s manager if he&#x27;s looking for someone.
评论 #10244302 未加载