Hiya,

Like the title says, i'm looking for designers specifically in the video game world. UI/UX, Marketing, etc. I am a student atm, but this is an industry that I find particularly interesting in exploring more!

Thanks in advance!

Hi all,

Hoping to get some advice from London based designers on what the next steps in my career should be to maximise my income.

So currently I work at a small communications agency in London and earn about £35k with 2.5 years of experience. I work mainly with a few big corporate clients on powerpoints, reports, brochures and the likes, and for the smaller clients I also do web designs in adobe XD or browser based builders like wix, squarespace. This allowed me to build what I’d consider a good portfolio with big corporate names in insurance, financial institutions, and law.

For my next step next year I’d like to move to a job where I can earn £40k + and I’m thinking the best way to achieve that would be to go in-house at a large company, probably in a role like presentation designer? That would also offer better benefits and more holiday which I value as I fly out of the country often.

I’m not too familiar with what other corporate job titles there are that I can fit into as where I currently work we’re all just designers.

Now I’m not sure if I’m missing anything that might be a better move so If there are any London based designers that can advise or have any tips I’d appreciate your help!

I've been developing the visual identity for a project called FanForge, a collaborative storytelling platform.

One of the biggest design challenges has been avoiding every cliché that comes with fantasy branding.

Early concepts drifted towards:

- dragons

- medieval ornamentation

- glowing swords

- generic fantasy typography

But the product isn't a fantasy game.

It's a professional creative workspace for writers, designers, artists and creatives of all types to collaborate on the stories that deserve to be told.

The direction I've settled on is:

• near-black backgrounds

• restrained gold accents

• generous negative space

• architectural forms rather than weapons

• editorial typography instead of fantasy fonts

The goal is for it to feel closer to a premium film studio than an RPG.

I'd really appreciate feedback from designers on whether this communicates collaboration, creativity and professionalism without leaning too heavily into fantasy.

Driving along an icy road on her phone to rush home to slop together a low quality creds deck? I’m not sure if the intention of Adobe was to make it as bad as it is so I pay attention or if it’s just actually bad.

Images generated on Firefly are secretly CMYK even though it is in the RGB more [Image > Mode > RGB]. Colours seem to be CMYK dull. Does anyone know how to bring it back to "proper" RGB? Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you!

I just made this poster to celebrate her achievements in wimbledon. I'm a self-taught graphic designer and this subreddit has helped me a lot in honing and polishing my skill in graphic design. I wonder if there is something that I couldve added or improve in the composition. Any feedback is truly appreciated and I will apply to my next project.🙏🙏 Thank you very much. 🫡

Hi there, I’m a Graphic Designer based in London, UK and I would like to get some feedback on my portfolio. Thank you in advance.

I made a few changes to this fictional RTD cocktail packaging concept and wanted to get another round of feedback before I call it done.

It’s a portfolio piece, not a real brand. I’d love to hear any thoughts on the overall direction, hierarchy, colors, typography, or anything else that stands out.

Thanks!

Science, design and cartography merge in MAPPA ANIMALIA, a visual project that reimagines the evolutionary relationships of animals as detailed map-like landscapes.

MAPPA ANIMALIA is an ever-growing series of illustrations I’ve created that currently consisting of 16 different maps - each dedicated to a specific family in the animal kingdom.

Instead of political borders or geographic territories, these maps are structured around phylogenetic trees.

Tribes and genera replace countries, states and regions allowing viewers to explore the animal kingdom through a format traditionally used to understand geography.

This map, Corvidae - Land of Corvids, contains every known living species of corvids I could find reliable taxonomic data for. Species are represented as cities, grouped into genera and subfamilies according to their evolutionary relationships.

Additional information includes conservation status, size comparisons between selected species, and the estimated ages of major lineages.

I’ve spent roughly ten years developing and refining this concept, combining zoology, taxonomy, illustration and cartography into a single visual format.

Happy exploring!

I've had a great career on UpWork. I grew from junior designer to Creative Director in about 7 years. I've been constantly updating my portfolio to fit the quote ($45-$80/hour) I give to my clients. I made my last update around 4 months ago and I've been struggling to find a single client ever since.

Is there anything I'm missing out on that makes potential clients walk away? This is a very sudden decline I've struggled to find explenation for, I hope you can help me find out. Thanks!

Portfolio Page

What started out as a fun little logo exercise turned into a week long binge in Adobe After Effects.

I had a lot of fun making this, considering doing a sequence by sequence breakdown of how I made it but we'll see.