65 Places to Find a Graphic Designer
Graphic Design is an essential aspect of any businesses, giving business a face and way to communicate with clients and a way for employees to communicate with each other, but finding the perfect graphic designer is often a challenge for many. Not only is this list perfect for anyone looking for graphic designers, but this list of resources is great for any designer looking for more work and exposure.
There are many outlets designers use to promote themselves nowadays, most of which are online such as design galleries. Not every graphic designer uses every single outlet so by knowing these places you will be able to find the perfect designer for your business!
Likewise, as graphic designers its important to promote your services in as many different places as possible so that you can increase the chances of getting new business. Below is a large list of places to find graphic designers and if you are a graphic designer you should considering creating a portfolio, profile or promoting your services using the following sites:
Places to Find a Graphic Designer
Design Galleries & Portfolio Sites
- www.behance.net
- www.ucreative.com
- www.logopond.com
- www.faveup.com
- www.deviantart.com
- www.designrelated.com
- www.coroflot.com
- www.designyoutrust.com
- www.onepagelove.com
- www.onepagefolios.com
- bestwebgallery.com
- www.css-website.com
- www.cssclip.com
- www.csscollection.com
- www.cssdrive.com
- www.csselite.com
- www.cssflavor.com
- cssmania.com
- cssremix.com
- www.designmeltdown.com
- www.designshack.co.uk
- www.mostinspired.com
- www.professionalontheweb.com
- www.dailyslurp.com
- www.w3csites.com
Resume Sites
Classifieds
- www.craigslist.org
- classifieds.yahoo.com
- www.classifieds.myspace.com
- www.oodle.com
- http://www.usfreeads.com/
Directories
- www.switchboard.com
- www.google.com/dirhp
- www.anywho.com
- dir.yahoo.com
- www.dmoz.org
- www.aiga.org
- us.bbb.org
- www.yellowpages.com
- www.dexigner.com/directory
- www.designdirectory.com/
- www.designdirectory.co.uk
- www.designdir.net
- directory.designer.am
- webdesignfinders.net
- www.designfirms.org
- www.design-agency.com
Job Boards
- Coroflot
- Behance
- Authentic Jobs
- AIGA Design Jobs
- Krop
- design:related
- Freelance Switch
- Smashing Magazine
- Fresh Web Jobs
- Simply Hired
Graphic Design Forums
Brandon Cox - September 15th, 2008
Excellent list. helpful not only for those searching, but for those wishing to make themselves available!
Dainis Graveris - September 16th, 2008
Excellent list , I think the best place for searching graphic designer is behance.net and I see You agree, because that site is the first at Your list. Really enjoyed design forum list - thanks!
Andrew - September 16th, 2008
Great list here Gino.
Don’t forget http://www.designflavr.com/
Many talented Graphic Designers / Web Designers / Visual Artists etc.
NaldzGraphics - September 16th, 2008
nice list.thanks a lot. I just discover new sites for designers:)
James Paden - September 16th, 2008
I’m not sure how you did this, but you completely left out my directory, http://www.Xemion.com! Ranked #1 for web designer directory and #3 for web designers. The Xemion directory is focused primarily on website designers, but we do have categories for graphic designers. Otherwise though, great list! Very useful!
Logo Design UK - September 16th, 2008
Wow, this is great! Thanks very much for all the great websites / resources Gino. I have been looking at alternate ways of marketing online and this gives me lots of new paths to explore
Dot Design - September 16th, 2008
Good work Gino, an excellent resource for both finding a designer and marketing yourself as one!
Rachel - September 16th, 2008
Great list…thanks for including us. Also another place to find graphic designers is at All Freelance Work Portfolios
Thanks.
Rachel
Fubiz - September 17th, 2008
Great list!
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Funner - September 21st, 2008
It is a very good list; regarding the Design Galleries & Portfolio Sites you should also add FantastiCSS http://www.fantasticss.com/ which shows only the best CSS designs on the planet.
Brian - September 25th, 2008
One area designers should look to is sites that can create partnerships with you. Longer term value in creating your own IP/creative pieces rather than working for a day rate. Not suggesting give up the day rate work but try to think about creating multiple lines of income,find sites that will work with you, if you have the creative ideas and content then they may have a channel to sell them for you
Starry Nebula - September 26th, 2008
Thanks for the advice! My graphic artist lives right up the street!
Integritylance - September 29th, 2008
Another one to add to that is http://www.integritylance.com we have a variety of designers and are continually receiving a steady flow of them into our site doing work for people
Rajita - Logo Design - October 1st, 2008
Thanks or this vital information
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viince - October 7th, 2008
Nice list. Very useful. And interesting to boot!
Curvball - October 10th, 2008
Sometimes all you need to do is go down to a local punk rock show to find a brilliant designer
Great list of online resources - need to get onto a few of them.
michellediva - October 14th, 2008
True, a lot of great talent resides on the sites mentioned above, however one thing that I know is important to buyers/clients is how fast and easy they can find what they are looking for. Especially when working on pressing deadlines.
Will Sherwood - October 23rd, 2008
Well done! What a great service to designers interested in getting their work online, and seen more often.
Logo Designer - October 26th, 2008
Thanks for all the great design resources this should keep me busy for some time
Design Directory - November 8th, 2008
Thanks for including us.