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Generate Unlimited Graphic Design Prompts for Design Practice

6-27-2019 - By August van de Ven

Practice design using the graphic design prompt generator: FakeClients.com

Graphic designers often need to present themselves with a design portfolio. If you are just starting out with graphic design, it can be hard to find a good job if you don’t have much of a portfolio. Luckily, there are plenty of options to fill up your portfolio with work that will show potential employers or schools that you have sufficient experience. Using graphic design prompts, you can create graphic design work without having to wait or look for clients first. With a generator like FakeClients.com, you can easily generate an unlimited number of randomly generated graphic design prompts.

Why use graphic design prompts?

To create a good portfolio, you’ll need to show that you are able to solve a client’s problem using graphic design. A graphic design client can come to you if they feel that their brand doesn’t get the right recognition or doesn’t reach its target audience. When you’re just starting out as a graphic designer, it can be incredibly hard to find your first clients and thus also to grow your portfolio. With a graphic design prompt generator like FakeClients.com, you are able to imitate this process of taking on a client’s requests. Using design prompts, you’ll gain experience in working according to a client’s requests and demands. When you try to come up with graphic design projects on your own, for practice or just for fun, you automatically tend to choose the easiest path for you in terms of design. Real clients are often quite the opposite. They can often be a pain in the ass in the way they disagree with decisions you make, have a bad taste or just don’t want to pay you the right amounts. Your first clients can be especially difficult when you start out. With graphic design prompts you can gradually evolve from working on your own projects to working for easy practice exercises.

How to use graphic design prompts?

To start working on graphic design prompts, go to FakeClients.com and press on the big yellow start button. This will generate the first graphic design prompts for you. If you don’t think you can handle to first one, you can generate as many new ones as you like but keep in mind that real clients aren’t like this. If you want to challenge yourself, start designing for the very first prompt you get, whether you like that one or not. These design prompts may not be as descriptive as many professional design prompts you would get from large corporations but when you are starting out, you’ll get a lot of clients that know nothing about design and just send you a request to “create a flyer” for example. This also allows you to have a bit more freedom in the beginning. If you want to work on more detailed and in-depth briefs, you can look at the longer briefs that fakeclients has on FakeClients.com/briefs. Note that these are mostly focused on logo design projects. You can also think of some requirements for the prompts yourself before you press the start button. For example, think of a company mission, a deadline, competitors and industry before generating a graphic design prompt. This can be very challenging at first but it really trains you to stick to a client’s requirements and also helps you understand a client’s point of view.

Present your designs

Once you are finished with your design for your fictional client, you can present it on your portfolio. Some people decide to only showcase the design and possibly the name of the fictional business but it can be very interesting for your potential employers or school to list some of the requirements or the mission of the fictional business you designed for. This helps them understand how you work to solve your client’s problems using your experience in graphic design.