Putting out the digital hat.
Project
Starting up an autistic-run graphic/web design microbusiness
Benefitting: Us; we're trying to raise funds to live on over the next few months - we're full-time students and use financial aid to cover living expenses - and have the cash to publicise our work so that we can reach out to potential clients! We have experience doing graphic and web design work for individuals and organisations; if you'd like to see some of our work, you can visit our portfolio site.
Recently, there's been an increase in autistic- and Asperger's-run entrepreneurial companies that leverage the skills of people on the spectrum. This allows many people to find a niche that incorporates their skills, as opposed to dealing with a system that doesn't always accommodate them well. Since we have a strong passion for using our creative and technical skills to create aesthetically appealing websites and graphics, we'd like to share that with the general public.
Description
As we're on the autistic spectrum, this makes it more difficult for us to take typical student jobs that require a lot of constant social interaction and tasks that directly run up against the things that we struggle with the most. We've currently been sending out applications for paid internships; however, nothing has come out of these so far. We are also new to the area and don't have a large network quite yet. We'll be getting some help with our rent cheques over the summer (during the academic year, financial aid covers our expenses, but it's much harder during breaks); however, we need to come up with the other ~half or so.
Our being full-time students also makes it impossible - or very difficult, at the very least - for us to receive aid like food stamps, since they're contingent on people working at least part-time. Since our disability makes it more difficult for us to be hired for most jobs that don't require a degree (and paid internships that involve tasks that we're actually good at are ridiculously competitive), this complicates things.
However, we have several marketable skills (HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Illustrator) that we'd like to develop into a decent side business to tide us over until our financial aid comes in again at the beginning of September - and we'd like to continue it part-time as classes start up again this autumn.
Perks
$10 - Choose from the following items: a flyer for an event you're advertising, a typographic poster with a quotation you like (estimated delivery: late May 2013)
$25 - Custom Dreamwidth theme, based on Tabula Rasa, Blanket or Brittle, featuring custom images, CSS and webfonts! Same applies to LJ, but we'd be using Flexible Squares as your base theme.
$50 - Simple 'about me' personal page, coded in HTML/CSS with links to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other profiles (estimated delivery: late May 2013)
$100 - Full web design for an individual or small business, either static or CMS-based (we primarily use Wordpress as a CMS; see our main site as an example of how we use WP as a content-management system (estimated delivery: mid-June 2013)
If there is any delay for perks, we'll let you know asap. All projects have unlimited revisions, so we can tweak a project just as you like without any extra hidden costs.
Any contribution helps! We'll give our paypal address in screened comments. If you can't donate yourself, feel free to pass this on on DW or LJ.
(will be crossposted to
signalboost! Feel free to link to this.)
Starting up an autistic-run graphic/web design microbusiness
Benefitting: Us; we're trying to raise funds to live on over the next few months - we're full-time students and use financial aid to cover living expenses - and have the cash to publicise our work so that we can reach out to potential clients! We have experience doing graphic and web design work for individuals and organisations; if you'd like to see some of our work, you can visit our portfolio site.
Recently, there's been an increase in autistic- and Asperger's-run entrepreneurial companies that leverage the skills of people on the spectrum. This allows many people to find a niche that incorporates their skills, as opposed to dealing with a system that doesn't always accommodate them well. Since we have a strong passion for using our creative and technical skills to create aesthetically appealing websites and graphics, we'd like to share that with the general public.
Description
As we're on the autistic spectrum, this makes it more difficult for us to take typical student jobs that require a lot of constant social interaction and tasks that directly run up against the things that we struggle with the most. We've currently been sending out applications for paid internships; however, nothing has come out of these so far. We are also new to the area and don't have a large network quite yet. We'll be getting some help with our rent cheques over the summer (during the academic year, financial aid covers our expenses, but it's much harder during breaks); however, we need to come up with the other ~half or so.
Our being full-time students also makes it impossible - or very difficult, at the very least - for us to receive aid like food stamps, since they're contingent on people working at least part-time. Since our disability makes it more difficult for us to be hired for most jobs that don't require a degree (and paid internships that involve tasks that we're actually good at are ridiculously competitive), this complicates things.
However, we have several marketable skills (HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Illustrator) that we'd like to develop into a decent side business to tide us over until our financial aid comes in again at the beginning of September - and we'd like to continue it part-time as classes start up again this autumn.
Perks
$10 - Choose from the following items: a flyer for an event you're advertising, a typographic poster with a quotation you like (estimated delivery: late May 2013)
$25 - Custom Dreamwidth theme, based on Tabula Rasa, Blanket or Brittle, featuring custom images, CSS and webfonts! Same applies to LJ, but we'd be using Flexible Squares as your base theme.
$50 - Simple 'about me' personal page, coded in HTML/CSS with links to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other profiles (estimated delivery: late May 2013)
$100 - Full web design for an individual or small business, either static or CMS-based (we primarily use Wordpress as a CMS; see our main site as an example of how we use WP as a content-management system (estimated delivery: mid-June 2013)
If there is any delay for perks, we'll let you know asap. All projects have unlimited revisions, so we can tweak a project just as you like without any extra hidden costs.
Any contribution helps! We'll give our paypal address in screened comments. If you can't donate yourself, feel free to pass this on on DW or LJ.
(will be crossposted to
signalboost! Feel free to link to this.)