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When I joined 99designs, I went through the categories and basically this is how it was: “Oh, I love books! This is something I could work on” (although I actually didn’t know how to do it-how to make a book cover). What’s your experience been like on 99designs so far? Just by participating in contests and by watching them, I learned a lot. My most helpful resources were contests, and those are my only resources actually. Left to right: The Devil’s Dictum, Escape from Shame and Quit Bitching and Live! As a self-taught designer, what resources do you use to improve your skills? As time passed, I became more secure in my book cover design knowledge and my skills were also progressing a lot. I remember I panicked a bit when I won my first contest, because I wasn’t sure if I’d do something wrong or not and I didn’t have anyone to ask–but luckily, everything went great. But with Google’s help, I gathered all info needed for creating a book cover and preparing it for print. At that time I had zero knowledge about book covers. I saw that it was easier for me to get a job related to Photoshop than in economics, so I kept applying to those jobs.Ī month later, I joined 99designs. But the first jobs I got were related to photo retouching (I had some basic Photoshop skills at that time). Two years ago, I joined some freelance websites where I planned to use my economics knowledge. I wanted to be a psychologist, but studied economics and ended up as a graphic designer instead. I’m Miladinka and I accidentally became a graphic designer. Specialty: Book cover design Tell us a bit about yourself. Soon enough she was winning contests and able to work full-time as a book cover designer-and she hasn’t looked back since. 99designs’ contests were the perfect place for her to build up her skills as she studied online. While Meella didn’t have specific knowledge about book cover design at the time, she threw herself into it.
It began simply enough… While searching through freelance websites for economist gigs, she quickly discovered a need for photo retouching-a skill she had, thanks to her Photoshop knowledge. Realizing design work like this was lucrative, she signed up on 99designs and decided to try her hand at book cover design. But somewhere in between, by pure accident, she wound up a successful book cover designer.
Originally Mila Milic (aka Meella) wanted to become a psychologist before switching to economics.
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