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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.

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

From failure to success: how designers can learn from mistakes to improve their work and approach.

Stop Worrying About People Stealing Your Ideas

Stop Worrying About People Stealing Your Ideas

Design / Freelance

We explore some important reasons why you should stop worrying about anyone potentially stealing your creative design ideas.

Simple Tips For Avoiding Working For Lower-Quality Clients

Simple Tips For Avoiding Working For Lower-Quality Clients

Freelance

Lower-quality clients suck. All they focus on is how little they can pay. They make unreasonable demands for the amount of work they want you to do and how fast…

The Types of Freelance Design Clients You Should Avoid

The Types of Freelance Design Clients You Should Avoid

Freelance / Web Design

Learn how the right clients will respect your time and expertise, and will be realistic and professional in their expectations.

How to Avoid Being Labeled as a Low-Cost Designer

How to Avoid Being Labeled as a Low-Cost Designer

Freelance

Avoid being labeled as a low-cost designer with strategies to position yourself for higher-end projects and clients.

You’ll Never Be a Design Specialist by Generalizing Your Skills

You’ll Never Be a Design Specialist by Generalizing Your Skills

Design / Freelance
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