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Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design: Saul Bass

Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design: Saul Bass

Design / Freelance

Part of my education as a graphic designer was learning about the field’s history. Before, I thought history classes were stuffy and dull. Not this class. I was floored by…

Investigation into a Freelancer’s Workday Schedule

Investigation into a Freelancer’s Workday Schedule

Freelance

Working the realm of freelancing at times can provide a very rough work environment. Long hours in front of the computer, constant e-mail floods, and phone calls from clients all…

Narrowing Your Focus and Taking on More Specialized Projects

Narrowing Your Focus and Taking on More Specialized Projects

Freelance

Starting out as a freelance web designer often means taking whatever projects come our way. After all, we need to eat too (and a drink every now and then isn’t a…

What to Do When Your Graphic Design Client is Andy Pipkin

What to Do When Your Graphic Design Client is Andy Pipkin

Freelance

Andy Pipkin tells his poor duped friend Lou that he wants tickets to the opera for his birthday. Its an unusual request, as Andy has been seen to have a…

Alternative Sources of Design Inspiration, Where Do You Get Yours?

Alternative Sources of Design Inspiration, Where Do You Get Yours?

Freelance

Great designers know that designing is less thinking and more seeing. Because of this, they have a tendency to find areas other than design showcases or tutorials for new inspiration.
Here are some alternative or different places to find inspiration; inspiration that should help your designs stick out from the crowd.

15 Powerful Social Media Tips

15 Powerful Social Media Tips

Freelance

Social media is ever-changing and ever-growing. Of course, this is true of the internet in general, but even more so when talking about social media. Facebook, Google+, Twitter and countless…

How to Not Suck at Managing Your Time

How to Not Suck at Managing Your Time

Freelance / Web Design

Discipline is the mother of all things worthwhile: innovation, strength, wealth, health, knowledge, and of course…success. If you have any intention whatsoever of reaching your goal of becoming a successful…

Great Names in Graphic Design: Anton Stankowski

Great Names in Graphic Design: Anton Stankowski

Design / Freelance

Anton Stankowski (1906 – 1998) is universally acclaimed as one of the greatest and most influential names in late-modernist art. Alexander Eckstein explains why. Anton Stankowski was an eminent late…

Getting your Freelance Finances Back on the Right Track

Getting your Freelance Finances Back on the Right Track

Freelance

If you’re freelance finances are not in the shape they should be, here’s some tips that’ll help you get your them back on the right track. Freelancing can be pretty…

Things You Need to Know about Guest Blogging

Things You Need to Know about Guest Blogging

Freelance

One of the ways to help improve your ranking with search engines, and especially Google, is with inbound links – those links that point back to you. Creating inbound links…

Your Guide to Becoming a Freelance Web Designer

Your Guide to Becoming a Freelance Web Designer

Freelance

Your Guide to Becoming a Freelance Web Designer has been written to help both those who are thinking of a freelance career and those who already have one. It’s a…

Getting Smarter: How Changing Your Mindset Can Help Your Web Design Goals

Getting Smarter: How Changing Your Mindset Can Help Your Web Design Goals

Freelance

Imagine you had a child who just finished learning addition and subtraction. You gave him a math task at home to test his skills and he solved the task successfully!…

Designers & Developers, Why Can We Not Just Get Along?

Designers & Developers, Why Can We Not Just Get Along?

Design / Freelance

Here’s a question that has been talked about many times, usually resulting in both sides coming away feeling angry and misunderstood. Why can’t developers and designers get along? Now, obviously…

Lessons Learned From an Experienced Freelancer

Lessons Learned From an Experienced Freelancer

Freelance

As freelancers navigate their way into the world of contracted work, there are a variety of good times and bad times. The good times in particular involve a steady list…

The Remote Designer – Jumping into the Cloud

The Remote Designer – Jumping into the Cloud

Freelance

Freelance work can be one of the most liberating work, especially when moving from agency or in-house, you will ever undertake in your career. And while it has plenty of…

Communication Tips for Techies

Communication Tips for Techies

Freelance

Techies aren’t known for their outstanding communication skills – we are much better at design, code, machines in general than in communication with other humans. However, no matter if we…

10 Productivity Tips for Freelancers

10 Productivity Tips for Freelancers

Freelance

As a freelancer, it matters not how much time you have spent in front of your computer but what you have completed on the project. What matters is productivity rather…

5 Things that Can Derail Your Freelance Career

5 Things that Can Derail Your Freelance Career

Freelance
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