Meet Freelance Designer Kache Byrd!

Hello Designers! This week I got an chance to catch up with a freelance designer Kache Byrd who works from home, while maintaining being a business woman, wife, mother of one, and expecting another she still finds time to make Design the aspect of her life.  I got a chance to ask her a couples of questions and get to know her a little better.

Kache with her daughter Chasity 

1. Tell me about your background in design.

Kache says that as a child she was always crafty and love to paint anything that was visual. While in high school she thought that she wanted to take her crafty art skills and put them towards Computer Aided Drafting and Design (CADD) so she went to college for that. While majoring in CADD in college, she had to take basic design classes which allowed her to be as creative as she wanted to be. Taking those basic design classes gave her a spark about what she wanted to do with her career, plus she was good at it, she says. During college, Kache says that she met owner of Trendsetting Design and begin working for the owner as co-designer. While working for Trendsetting Design she realized that if you followed your passion it would never be considered work, says Kache.

Her Logo

2. Tell me about your business

Kbyrd Creative Design is the name of her design business. Kbyrd is a creative design company that is geared towards graphic design. Kbyrd is focused on marketing, graphic design, advertising, and branding. Kbyrd is also her personal portfolio, she says.

3. How do you obtain clients?

Kache says that she obtains her clients by different social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Elance. She said that she also obtains her clients by Linkedin and word of mouth.

4. How do you set yours prices?

Kache sets her prices by hourly rates because she pretty much knows how long it is going to take her to do a design. Although her prices may vary because of what she may be designing she is takes her job as if she is a entry level graphic designer a top design firm.

5. What is your day-to-day like?

Kache and her husband Anthony 

Kache's day-to-day life is attending to her daughter Chasity most of the day. In the early morning, before 7am she is sketching, sending mockups, responding to emails, and researching. In the afternoon, she is cooking dinner, cleaning, doing laundry, and on conference calls. In the evening, once Chasity is off to bed is when she really get her design work done. She sits on her computer and begin designing everything that she and the client talk about.

6. What advice would you give to an upcoming freelance designer?

Kache said, that her number one advice to freelance designer is to be unique, be original, and if your design doesn't work in black and white it's not a good design. As a designer should have your style and your own way of doing things, look for professional designers blog and their design process, she says. Kache says when it comes to designing work for clients to establish a great relationship with them, give them as much information as possible, be the expert of the design, and explain the use of all file formats for quality output.

7. How do you manage being a wife, mother, and a designer?

One of her many designs

Kache says she manages being a wife, mother, and a designer by balance, time management, and most important by having a schedule. Kache plans her day from the time she wakes up to the she goes to bed at night. Kache schedules when she is going to clean, cook, do laundry and design.


You can contact Kache Byrd on Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin. Also look at her portfolio www.behance.net/kbyrd