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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.
Good Font, Bad Font: How to Pick the Best Font

Good Font, Bad Font: How to Pick the Best Font

Design / Fonts / Freelance

We share five key rules for selecting the ideal typeface, and show you how to determine if that font you like may not be so great after all

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.

What New & Inexperienced Designers Be Learning

What New & Inexperienced Designers Be Learning

Design / Freelance

Today I’m speaking to those just getting started in design. Maybe you just graduated from design school, or you’ve read through all the fundamental lessons offered here and on other…

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.

The Idea Generation Process of Scribbling on a Napkin

The Idea Generation Process of Scribbling on a Napkin

Design / Freelance

We explore the idea generation process familiar to many designers: the scribbled idea on a restaurant napkin process. It’s high-level stuff!

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 Worth Having a Personal Portfolio?

Is It Worth 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.

How to Do Away With Bad Design Ideas & Move on to the Good Ones

How to Do Away With Bad Design Ideas & Move on to the Good Ones

Design / Freelance

There’s a common saying in the fiction-writing world: kill your darlings. No, this isn’t some morbid encouragement to do bodily harm to your loved ones. Killing your darlings means that…

How to Avoid Design by Committee

How to Avoid Design by Committee

Design / Freelance
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