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Addison Duvall (72 Articles)

Addison Duvall is the author of Food Identities, a blog that explores the crossroads of food, design, art, and culture. She’s written some things, designed other things, and eaten a whole lot of food.
How to Improve Your Communication With Clients

How to Improve Your Communication With Clients

Freelance

Improve your communication and get down to the nitty-gritty with clients, so that you won’t waste time assuming that they need to know things they don’t.

How to Deal With Sudden Client Designer Syndrome

How to Deal With Sudden Client Designer Syndrome

Freelance

We’ve all experienced when a client wants to make a change to your design that, as a designer, you can immediately tell will result in disaster.

How to Educate Clients About the Value of Your Services as a Designer

How to Educate Clients About the Value of Your Services as a Designer

Freelance / Web Design

Understand how to communicate the true value of your design services to clients, enhancing appreciation and compensation.

How to Specifically Cater to the Needs of Your Clients

How to Specifically Cater to the Needs of Your Clients

Freelance / Web Design

Tips for effectively meeting client needs without compromising your standards or creativity in the design process.

Dealing with Terrible Business Ideas from Your Clients

Dealing with Terrible Business Ideas from Your Clients

Freelance / Web Design

Knowing how to spot a bad business idea or tell when a particular business relationship looks rickety is an important skill every designer should learn.

What Happened to the Great Plans For Your Design Career?

What Happened to the Great Plans For Your Design Career?

Freelance

So your great plans of achieving your design career goals are have been flushed down the drain. What happened? Is there a practical reason?

Is It Worthwhile Having a Personal Portfolio?

Is It Worthwhile Having a Personal Portfolio?

Design / Freelance

As information is spread so quickly through social media, are potential clients really going to take the time to visit your personal website?

How Novice Designers Can Improve Their Client Rosters

How Novice Designers Can Improve Their Client Rosters

Marketing

We offer advice on what all you young designers out there can do to get in on the more exciting and high-paying projects in the design industry.

Why You Should Include Your Personal Passions in Your Design Work

Why You Should Include Your Personal Passions in Your Design Work

Freelance / Web Design

Including interesting side projects in your portfolio can help you make the leap from forgettable, all-purpose designer to an industry superstar.

How Teaching Will Help You Become the Best Designer You Can Be

How Teaching Will Help You Become the Best Designer You Can Be

Design / Freelance

We explore some of the key ways that sharing your knowledge will help you to become the best designer you can possibly be.

How to Work With Both Good & Bad Design Clients

How to Work With Both Good & Bad Design Clients

Freelance / Web Design

We offer advice on how to determine which freelance design clients are good and which ones aren’t before you begin to work with them.

Sketchbooks – The Designer’s Cookbook

Sketchbooks – The Designer’s Cookbook

Design / Freelance

As a food lover, I absolutely adore cookbooks. I have a ton of them – all filled with pages and pages of delicious recipes for me to try and experiment…

The Deadly Communication Sins Freelance Designers Commit

The Deadly Communication Sins Freelance Designers Commit

Freelance / Web Design

Identify and avoid common communication mistakes freelancers make, fostering better relationships and project outcomes.

As a Designer, Is Failure a Necessary Part of Success?

As a Designer, Is Failure a Necessary Part of Success?

Design / Freelance

From failure to success: how designers can learn from mistakes to improve their work and approach.

Stop Worrying About People Stealing Your Ideas

Stop Worrying About People Stealing Your Ideas

Design / Freelance

We explore some important reasons why you should stop worrying about anyone potentially stealing your creative design ideas.

The Types of Freelance Design Clients You Should Avoid

The Types of Freelance Design Clients You Should Avoid

Freelance / Web Design

Learn how the right clients will respect your time and expertise, and will be realistic and professional in their expectations.

How to Avoid Being Labeled as a Low-Cost Designer

How to Avoid Being Labeled as a Low-Cost Designer

Freelance

Avoid being labeled as a low-cost designer with strategies to position yourself for higher-end projects and clients.

You’ll Never Be a Design Specialist by Generalizing Your Skills

You’ll Never Be a Design Specialist by Generalizing Your Skills

Design / Freelance
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