How to Find Graphic Design Clients

This week, CJ and Jack unpack the reality of finding clients as a freelance designer. From saying yes to everything in the early days, to learning how to attract the right opportunities as your career grows. They share stories from their own journeys, including cold emails, awkward client experiences, social media, passion projects, and the uncomfortable truth about what it really takes to get noticed.

We get into:

👉 How we both found our very first freelance clients

👉 Why most cold emails and DMs don't work (and what to focus on instead)

👉 The role social media played in building their design careers

👉 Why finding clients and finding the right clients are two completely different challenges

👉 How passion projects can lead to paid work in the industries you actually want to work in

👉 Why saying no to the wrong project can be harder than finding a new one

👉 The question every freelancer eventually has to answer: "How bad do you want this?"