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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 Handle Indescribable Uniqueness in Design

How to Handle Indescribable Uniqueness in Design

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Design

We discuss weird and indescribable uniqueness in design, share how you can handle it, and whether or not it’s necessarily a good thing.

Promoting Your Freelance Services the Right Way

Promoting Your Freelance Services the Right Way

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Freelance Design

Freelance designers, when marketing, can often drive the wrong kind of traffic to their websites, and can even drive the right kind away.

How to Handle Ethical Disagreements With Your Design Clients

How to Handle Ethical Disagreements With Your Design Clients

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Design / Freelance Design

We share a reliable process freelance designers can use to stop all those unethical requests from clients from getting out of control.

How to Improve Your Communication With Clients

How to Improve Your Communication With Clients

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Freelance Design

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.

Taking Inspiration from the Humble Shopping Cart

Taking Inspiration from the Humble Shopping Cart

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Design

We explore the history of the humble shopping cart, taking lessons from its design and marketing that you can apply to your design process today.

How to Grow Your Audience as a Designer

How to Grow Your Audience as a Designer

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Freelance Design

We share the key principles that allow community builders to rise above others in terms of platform building, and how you can learn from the examples they set.

How to Handle Losing Your Motivation as a Designer

How to Handle Losing Your Motivation as a Designer

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Design

We share a technique you can use when you’re feeling burnt out and can’t bear to take one more step to complete that big creative project.

Testing Your Marketing Efforts as a Freelancer Designer

Testing Your Marketing Efforts as a Freelancer Designer

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Freelance Design

In today’s freelancing climate, one of the best things you can do in terms of marketing yourself is to think in what I like to call “Test Terms.” What does…

The Role Design Plays in Your Client’s Sales Funnel

The Role Design Plays in Your Client’s Sales Funnel

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Design

We talk about what you’re really supposed to be doing as a designer, and about the role your designs play in your client’s sales funnel.

Do We Really Need to Follow Design Trends?

Do We Really Need to Follow Design Trends?

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Design

Designers love to complain about superficial design trends that they don’t feel have any staying power or contribute anything meaningful. Are they right?

How a Culinary Technique Could Make You a Better Freelancer

How a Culinary Technique Could Make You a Better Freelancer

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Freelance Design

Incorporating the mise en place idea into your creative process allows you to prepare yourself to power through your work with less stress and fewer headaches.

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

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

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Design
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