Freelance briefs for designers, writers and makers
Briefs from studios and brands, with the day rate written down.
Brand, illustration, copy, motion, photography and product work posted directly by the people commissioning it. Every brief shows the rate, the engagement type and whether it can be done from your own desk.
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Notes from the studio
Rate guides, working notes and stories from freelancers and the studios that hire them.
Rate guideWhat freelance brand designers charged in 2026Every advertised day rate and fixed fee for brand and identity work from the last quarter, split by city, studio size and years of experience asked for.
Going freelanceFrom in-house to freelance: the first ninety daysAn illustrator who left a publishing job in the spring on the briefs she took, the ones she turned down, and the number she wishes she had set on day one.
For studiosWriting a brief that gets the right portfolios backTwo creative directors compare the briefs that drew forty replies with the ones that drew four, and the three lines that made the difference.