Stella Pelagatti - Visual Designer

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Stella Pelagatti – Visual Designer
6/22/2015 info@freelancermap.com

Former clients recommend and praise
our freelancer of the week. And the
resume of Stella Pelagatti, who is a
visual designer with more than ten
years of experience, speaks for itself.
Stella has worked for brands like
Nike, Nestlé, General Motors,
Samsung and many more. Why she
quit working full time for an agency?
Read the whole interview and see
why she is absolutely happy about
her decision…

1) First off, can you tell us a bit about yourself?
My name is Stella Pelagatti, I´m a freelance visual designer from
Buenos Aires (Argentina).
I have been freelancing since 2003, I´ve developed designs for
brands like: Nestlé, General Motors, Procter & Gamble,
Samsung, Nike, Barcelona Futbol Club, Museo de Bellas Artes
de Bilbao and Randstad.
This past year I´ve worked on numerous responsive websites,
mobile apps and online campaigns for global brands;
collaborating with agencies in USA, Canada, Spain, Australia
and Switzerland.

2) If you would search for your profile on Google, which are
the three keywords you would type in the search bar?
UI Designer, Mobile Designer, Responsive Web Designer

3) What was your inspiration and when did you actually
decide to become a freelancer?
In 2003 I was working for an Interactive Agency from Buenos
Aires when a friend who used to work at the same agency
and had moved to Italy proposed that I work with him for
his clients.
He was my first outsourcing client.
Since then I have worked with many agencies and companies
from many countries such as Australia, Canada, USA,
Switzerland and Spain.

4) What kind of services have your clients asked you to
provide?
Visual Design, Mobile Design, iWatch design and Responsive
Design. I provide them with the PSD or Sketch files. Usually
they have their own developers.

5) Do you use other freelancers or companies to provide
skills that you don’t possess?
I did in the past when I worked with an agency from Spain
that required a full service. I have put together and I have
managed the developers’ team. At present I´m not
interested in that. For this reason I only provide PSD files
for my clients.

6) Now tell us, how do you find new clients that are
interested in your services?
I find my clients through Business Networks (such as
LinkedIn) and e-mails.
I have never had success through websites such as
freelancermap.
Maybe my luck will change now! :)

7) What about freelancermap.com? Can you tell us a little
bit about your experience with our IT-network?
I created my profile this week, but freelancermap looks very
interesting for me because it has a lot of remote projects
that other websites don´t have.

8) How do you set yourself apart from your competitors? What
makes you special?
When you work remotely you need to provide on time and on
budget work. That is what sets me apart from my competitors.
My goal is for my clients to be happy with my work. Their
testimonials show when they are satisfied. So I aim to receive
good testimonials. For example this testimonial from a client on
LinkedIn: "Stella Maris is an amazing designer, assertive, detail-
oriented, creative and focused on the concept and guidelines
provided to submit a great final product and a timely service.
Highly recommended. She is straightforward, honest and a hard-
working professional indeed."

9) What are the top three books, blogs or magazines you
read to stay up to date in the IT-market?
Smashing Magazine, Mashable and Codrops.
I also attend the Adobe Seminars online.

10) Freestyle! Is there anything you would like to tell our
readers?
I want to encourage all the part-time freelancers who want
to start to freelance full-time to do it. You won´t regret it.
Working remotely you can work from wherever you want to
live. I moved from my city to a smaller city to have a better
quality of life.
I will never go back to work in an agency! :)

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