I've gotten recommendations from several people...and none of the recommended designers were all that great. The one I use all the time I met on the general interest town mailing list - we are two libertarians in a sea of Massachusetts Democrats. We ended up getting together for poker first, became friends next, and now we farm out tons of design work to him.
Note: no guarantees that this process will work for you.
Look at csszengarden if you have a decent budget. Go to oswd if you're looking for cheap.
I'm very happy with a designer I found via csszengarden, but she isn't cheap. I'll write a blog post about the whole process when it's done. Currently ourdoings.com is using a half-finished design from her, because even half finished it's 10x better than what I had before.
Found mine on xing. One I found by comparing the works of several designers I found on Xing. Another one found me on Xing when he needed a coder, and in turn I asked him to design.
yeah, for whatever reason graphic designers don't tend to congregate there. great for cheap little programming tasks, not so great for original design.
I think it has something to do with the fact that you can turn out shoddy code that produces a functional program, whereas shoddy design is immediately apparent
that's why a lot of design stuff you get when outsourcing is template-based and replicated across multiple sites.
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As someone mentioned in an earlier thread, one easy way to get better at good design is to use good reference designs.
Find sites you like, ask who their designer is.
csszengarden.com or oswd.org
I'm very happy with a designer I found via csszengarden, but she isn't cheap. I'll write a blog post about the whole process when it's done. Currently ourdoings.com is using a half-finished design from her, because even half finished it's 10x better than what I had before.
Now I just tend to do it myself, with mixed results.
I think it has something to do with the fact that you can turn out shoddy code that produces a functional program, whereas shoddy design is immediately apparent
that's why a lot of design stuff you get when outsourcing is template-based and replicated across multiple sites.