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Our authors, freelance designers like you, share their extensive knowledge and experiences. You’ll learn how to get consistent work, manage your time, business and clients, and, most importantly, how to get paid better, and on time.

Insider’s Tips for Better Content Writing

Insider’s Tips for Better Content Writing

It doesn’t matter whether you are a blogger, freelance writer, professional writer, or a student; you can always benefit by elevating your content writing skills. The quality of your content…

Using the Web as a Designer Without Losing Your Mind

Using the Web as a Designer Without Losing Your Mind

The web is a monster that’ll devour all the time and energy you give it, and then some. The sheer amount of time-wasting opportunities that are literally a click away…

Enterprise Productivity Apps for Remote Teams

Enterprise Productivity Apps for Remote Teams

It’s an exciting time to be a designer. With almost unlimited connectivity, designers and firms can work together without needing to inhabit the same space. Many designers and web professionals…

Managing an Organized Freelance Work Schedule

Managing an Organized Freelance Work Schedule

It takes a lot of time and dedication to build a freelance career. The hours are long, work can be tedious, and often you need to multitask like crazy. But…

Acquainting Yourself With the Specifics of the Printing Process

Acquainting Yourself With the Specifics of the Printing Process

For graphic designers in this day and age an increasing amount of the day’s workload is prepared for the digital medium. The move to a digital environment has elevated work…

Visionaries That Shaped Modern Graphic Design: John Maeda

Visionaries That Shaped Modern Graphic Design: John Maeda

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…

Visionaries That Shaped Modern Graphic Design: Milton Glaser

Visionaries That Shaped Modern Graphic Design: Milton Glaser

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…

Visionaries That Shaped Modern Graphic Design: Cipe Pineles

Visionaries That Shaped Modern Graphic Design: Cipe Pineles

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…

Visionaries That Shaped Modern Graphic Design: Wim Crouwel

Visionaries That Shaped Modern Graphic Design: Wim Crouwel

The Netherlands is a small country, but it’s had a big impact on design. Wim Crouwel’s typographic work is a good example of Dutch design at its best: clean and functional, like the work of his forefather Theo van Doesburg—yet progressive and surprising.

Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design: Saul Bass

Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design: Saul Bass

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

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