54 Great Resources For Freelance Designers

I recently got a really great book called “Freelance Design In Practice Don’t Start Working Without It” By Cathy Fishel. In the back of the book is a great list of resources for freelance designers, and that is the list I have made below. Please click on the links and check out these resources.

 

Helpful organizations for freelancers

AIGA
www.aiga.org
Creative Freelance Conference
www.creativefreelancerblog.com
Freelance Camp
freelancecamp.org
Freelancers Union
www.freelancersunion.org
Graphic Artists Guild
www.gag.org

 

Creative Staffing firms

24 Seven
24seveninc.com
Aquent
www.aquent.com
Artisan
www.artisancreative.com
Big Creative
www.bigcreative.com
Big Fish
www.gobigfish.com
Choice Creative
www.choicecreative.com
Creative Circle
www.creativecircle.com
The Creative Group
www.thecreativegroup.com
Filter
www.filtertalent.com
Paladin
www.paladinstaff.com
Publicis
www.publicis.com

 

Job board freelancers

AIGA
www.aigadesignjobs.org
Authentic Jobs
www.authenticjobs.com
Behance Network
www.behance.net
Coroflot
www.coroflot.com
Creative Hot List
www.creativehotlist.com
Design:related
designrelated.com/jobs
Elance
www.elance.com
Freelance Switch
freelanceswitch.com
Guru
www.guru.com
Jobs&Gigs
jobsandgigs.com
Krop
www.Krop.com
Smashing
jobs.smashingmagazine.com/freelance

 

Time-tracking software for purchase

Acuinvoice (online invoice and estimating software)
www.acuinvoice.com
Basecamp (web-based project management service)
www.basecamphq.com
Bento (Personal organizational software)
www.filemaker.com/bento
Clients & Profits
www.clientsandprofits.com
Copper (Project management software)
copperproject.com
Creative Manager Pro (Ad agency project management software)
www.creative-manager.com
Design Soft/ Stop Watch
www.designsoft.com
Easy Time Tracking (Time management and customer billing software)
www.easytimetracking.net
FourteenDayz (Online time tracking software)
www.14dayz.com
FreshBooks (Online time tracking and invoicing software)
freshbooks.com
Function Fox / Time Fox
www.functionfox.com
Harvest (Online time tracking software)
getharvest.com
JobCapture (Project management software)
www.captureworks.com
LiveTimer
www.livetimer.com
PunchyTime (Online time management software)
www.puchytime.com
@Task (Project and porfolio management software)
www.attask.com
Tempo (Online time tracking software)
keeptempo.com
YaTimer (Time management software)
www.nbdtech.com/yatimer

 

Time-tracking freeware

Remember The Milk (Online task management software)
www.rememberthemilk.com
Ta-da Lists (Online to-do list service)
www.tadalist.com

 

Billing software

BlinkBid
blinkbid.com
Blinksale
www.blinksale.com
CurdBee
www.curdbee.com
Freshbooks
www.freshbooks.com
QuickBooks
search.quickbooks.com
SimplyBill
simplybill.com

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77 Responses to “54 Great Resources For Freelance Designers”

  1. shane Says:

    Howdy! Did we really end up in someone’s book (freelancecamp)? Thats pretty cool.

  2. admin Says:

    Yes, You surely did. Way to go! If I were you I would buy it up. It is a good read and freelancecamp is listed in the back of the book.

  3. catherine Says:

    Hi Mike,

    You should also check Fanurio: http://www.fanuriotimetracking.com

    Fanurio is a desktop application designed to help freelancers manage their work and be paid for it. With Fanurio you can customize invoice templates using your own layouts and export them to HTML or PDF. It also has idle time detection and it can be used on Windows, Mac and Linux.

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    Another time tracking app worth checking into is Intervals. It was designed and built by a web design & development agency, Pelago, who are intimately familiar with creative agency project management.

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    Though I don’t finished reading and exploring the list I can be sure that this list will be of great help for free lancers.

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