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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 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

Most people have an idea of the perfect solution to their design problem. The downside is that so does everyone else with the same problem.

How to Set Up Your WordPress Agency for Long-Term Success

How to Set Up Your WordPress Agency for Long-Term Success

Freelance / WordPress

We share some tried-and-true methods for creating and managing a WordPress agency that will help you thrive and grow in such a competitive industry.

Tips for Freelance Designers Who Work as Sub-contractors

Tips for Freelance Designers Who Work as Sub-contractors

Freelance / WordPress

Navigate the world of freelance design by learning how to effectively work as a subcontractor, enhancing your skills and network.

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 Find & Use Your Own Design Voice

How to Find & Use Your Own Design Voice

Design / Freelance

Your design voice – or design style, if you will – is how you choose to relay information to your audience. That sounds simple, but for the uninitiated, it can…

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
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