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Can any blind or VI friends recommend a graphic designer who was easy to deal with? Details in post (self.Blind)
submitted by Prefect316
Hey all,

I've been blogging and producing social copy for years. Of course, being totally blind has its limitations, and over the years I've contracted various graphic designers to help me with logos and additional assets for socials. Here's the thing, though. I haven't liked working with any of them.

Not because they're bad. Everyone seems okay with what they produce. But I've never met a graphic designer who can communicate what they're doing to a blind person. Usually, I go into projects not knowing what I want and hopeful a graphic designer will be able to guide me through and help me design concepts from the ground up. Of course, I am aware this costs extra and am always willing to pay for that privilege. But I've never worked with someone who possessed these communication skills.

Anyway, I'm in the process of creating my small business and will be needing some design work done soon, and before I start randomly hunting around, I wanted to source recommendations from all of you wonderful people. Any friends or colleagues who are great communicators and designers? PM me about them or comment.

Thanks all! Much love always.
TimothyGonzalez 1 points 4y ago
I’m a graphic designer. I feel the experience of working on a project for a client who is blind might cause both parties to think about design from a new and interesting perspective, and I would be very interested in doing so. I also enjoy writing about design. How have you vetted designers in the past without being able to see their work?
Prefect316 [OP] 1 points 4y ago
Usually I'll show what I get back to a trusted partner and based on their honest feedback I'll either approach a few more sets of eyes I trust or give the designer notes based on their evaluation. I'm not entirely sure, but there has to be a better way lol. Maybe as AI gets better, so will our image recognizers. Right now, they're great for recognizing things like grocery items and clothes and such, but when it comes to highly detailed things like logos an other kinds of art there are still very tight constraints.

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I'll PM you. Let's work together.
SWaspMale 1 points 4y ago
Last I checked, deviantart.com had lots of artists, and many would work 'on commission'. I remember one webcomic artist who seemed to be familiar with disability issues, but vision did not seem to be one of them, and it seems like her condition worsened and she may not be drawing anymore.
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