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Dear CommercialArt,
I would say that your post on this forum was a great start. I am a freelance graphic designer who has interest in the work you described.

In briefing, I have ten plus years of experience in the design field, both freelance and corporate. More of the years have been spent working in small to large companies.
Working with different individuals from clients to team members to higher-ups has strengthened my ability to work as a professional.

If interested, I can send you my cradentials. Unfortunately, my website is a wrok in progress so email would be the way to go right now.

I hope to hear from you soon.

Signed,
getgraphic

"with great ideas come great designs"

Finding a good designer is certainly a challenge. I own and operate a small marketing consulting business and have several gtraphic designers that work for me. It has been my experience that as long as the customer and the graphic designer have a good line of communication you don't necessarily have to find someone local. Of course it may also depend on the type of services that are required. With that said, my firm is located in the Charlotte, NC area. I would be happy to discuss your needs. You can contact me through my website; www.jitsinc.com just fill out the contact form and I will respond.

CommercialArt,
As reassurance of my work, spell check is mandatory as well as an overview for content errors.

I've noticed that my previous post shows grammatical mistakes and is a misconception of my labor. I hope that the impression that I had first given does not deter your interest in my work.

Two words for every project I do, approval forms

Signed,
getgraphic

"with great ideas come great designs"

CommercialArt,
I cannot offer advice as someone who sought a designer, but I can offer advice as a designer who has been sought.

Unfortunately in the fast pace, high-tech world today, forums, job
boards, and randomly searching the web for impressive websites of a
designer's work are the ways to go. Word of mouth is also a way but you
already know this as you had mentioned it in your first post.

In order to avoid this, as you wish to do, and to get the in person
interview that you are hunting for, I can only suggest the following.

• Offer open casting calls for freelance graphic designers only in your
area just as you would with your theatrical performers. Require that
they bring samples of their work (portfolio), letters of recommendation
(testimonies) and 3-5 conceptual ideas for your company. You would of
course have to provide them with your company information as well as
your vision before your meeting.
• Look into the designers of playbooks and fliers you have found
impressive in other theatre companies or any other business brochure.
• Contact a design staffing and recruiting agency. This of course will
cost money but with details given to the agency, you will find exactly
what you need.

P.S.
No offense taken to your comment but rather taken as a quality critique.

Good luck in finding what you need.

Signed,

getgraphic

"with great ideas come great designs"

getgraphic thank you for your help. However I would never ask designers to bring ideas for my theater to an audition. I feel like that would be a bad idea. I am interested in hiring someone based off of their work and then paying them to come up with designs for me. Doing it the other way around would probably just produce a lot of subpar work as who wants to spend hours on a project without promise of payment? Anyway, your other suggestions were helpful. I am looking for other ways to find a designer than word of mouth because I do not want the go-to-guy that everyone in the business uses. Then everyone's work will look the same.

What's with the people who are ignoring my post and just offering their services to me? Please stop with the solicitations! I don't want a cheap designer from the UK, Africa or anywhere else that is not in N. America

Do those sites really work? Is good design actually produced and can you find local designers this way?

Creativity is my skill, please contact me: www.moreskydesign.com