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Remember when you did your first professional freelance job? You did everything from beginning to end including the design, printing and management? I was thinking about that mixture of excitement and nervousness as I sent it off to press followed by the sure satisfaction that followed when the client loved the way it looked.

Now I look back at my work in 1996 and say - wow, I could have done so much better. But it’s 12 years later and there’s been a heck of a lot of design I’ve cranked out between now and then.

My first true freelance project was for one of my friends from High School, well actually for one her family’s businesses. Her name was Amy Kelly, the job was a postcard for tourist hotel card slots, and the business was Red Garter Ice Cream Saloon in Vale, Oregon. After inheriting land and moving to Vale, OR, Amy’s parents had started several small businesses to cater to the tourists coming through town following on the Oregon Trail. This was one of them and they needed to get their name out there.

Here’s the results (these are two up).

I haven’t had that same feeling about a project for a while and I I don’t know if it’s the medium I work in (100% Internet), or the fact that I work as an in-house designer for the client (Omniture), or that the projects I work on are mostly team-plays with shared responsibilities and rewards.

Do you remember your first “professional” freelance experience?

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