Here we are at week 4 of my freelance journey blog series. For those of you who have just landed on my blog for the first time, firstly, where have you been!? Secondly, just to get you up to speed, this post is part of a series of posts I have been doing chronicling my journey into the wild world of graphic design freelancing. If you want to see how I got started freelancing just a short sweet month ago, and the projects I have completed for clients in previous weeks then check out my previous posts, or you could just dive right into reading this one. Completely up to you. Anyway, I mentioned very briefly in my last post that I sent off a proposal to a luxury car hire company (that I’ve been a huge fan of for years) as I came across a freelance job ad put out by them. They were looking for a freelance designer to design a small six-page marketing brochure for them to persuasively and attractively present their new cars. My enthusiasm must have really won them over as I managed to secure the work (they got back to me 5 days ago with the good news). I’ve been working like a maniac over the last few days to complete this brochure to really impress them, as during the interview process they dropped a few hints that if this first piece of work goes well that they would want to work with me on other things further down the line.
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