Graphic design is not a free practice. If you want to make a career out of this, you'll need to get paid. If you want to see some ideas come to fruition, you need to take money out of your wallet. As such, it's important to have a steady income, and find ways to add to it. As such, this blog will be going over certain ways I have seen it done, both good, and bad.
To start, I want to bring up Kamen Rider as an example.
Over the years, Kamen Rider toys have taken to trying out different gimmicks to up toy sales. This ranges from the armors you could put on an action figure, to little trinkets you can put in the transformation device. As a result, the shows now feature a multitude of other riders and forms, as opposed to earlier in the franchise's life. Granted, while it does get tiring seeing the story need to incorporate these forms, I enjoy seeing how it does so. So long as the toys are fairly priced, and the story is still good, I think it will work well.
Another way to make money, that's more common for individual designers, is crowd-funding. Yes, this isn't perfect, there have been plenty of Kickstarters that failed, but it's still a method. So long as you have a goal in mind, fulfill your promises, and balance things out, you will probably do fine. On top of that, crowd-funding gives you more freedom for a project.
Would you believe me if I said we're still not done with this topic? As it turns out, their are more ways to make money in Graphic Design. I'll go over those next blog, so stay tuned!
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