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I've done it, usually it's people stumbling upon the visualisations I did for my own interest (from my website, Twitter, or d3's gallery) finding they'd like so
by seszett 10y ago
I've done it, usually it's people stumbling upon the visualisations I did for my own interest (from my website, Twitter, or d3's gallery) finding they'd like something close to them and contacting me directly. Maps most often.
I like it, it's like paid leisure, and the more you do it, the most likely you already have something that almost does exactly what they want and just needs a few changes.
I wouldn't know where to start looking for clients though.
- mxmpawn 10y agoI've looked at your work, you've got pretty great pieces. If you don't mind me asking, which kind of organizations are usually interested in your work?
- seszett 10y agoThanks! For me it's usually smallish organisations, startups, sometimes associations, who want a map that looks better than a run-of-the-mill Google maps with plain markers, really. So they see something like https://ssz.fr/voies/ https://ssz.fr/voies/ or one of the variations of https://ssz.fr/territoire/ https://ssz.fr/territoire/ and ask for something like it that shows their data in an adequate way (and hopefully a good looking way too, using their colour scheme, etc). After that they sometimes ask me if I'm available for more map-related projects or iterative improvements to the first maps (and I am as long as they're small enough projects which won't take me more than a week or two). I think larger companies just don't email a random author after they find their address on a map, but that's fine because they're less interesting to work with in my opinion.