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The Great Idea Viability Test

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Some ideas look really good in your head but when you get them down on paper and begin to develop a strategy, the flaws become apparent.

When It’s Time To Let Go

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Being effective involves doing the right thing at the right time in the right place.

Green Scheduling: 6 Tips for Sustaining Your Creative Time

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Design your time. Time is wasted when we do the wrong thing at the wrong time. It’s easier to keep your time boundaries and your well-being intact if you plan ahead.

One Dozen Rules For Your Freelance Design Practice

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Setting and maintaining boundaries will help you avoid relationships and circumstances that are potentially harmful.

From the Client’s Point of View

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From the client’s point of view, there are two crucial criteria in deciding what designer is awarded the project: 1. Does the creative understand what’s needed? 2. Is the creative capable of delivering? Understanding What’s Needed Defining the problem accurately is necessary to solving it. If a designer can do that, he in essence has [...]

Design and Degree of Difficulty

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Setting up for a critique session in one of my classes at UCLA Extension. Being a designer is perceived by many as a fun job. Designers get to work with colors, shapes and amazing computer programs and be creative for a living. The design field is a natural choice for creative people. Students often enter [...]

Freelancing: In Getting New Work, Relationship Counts More Than Ever

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Businesses have a choice when seeking creative services: They can go the cheap route and buy a logo through a crowdsource/contest site where they’ll select the lowest bidder, or they can commission a designer for a custom, targeted design. This creates a dilemma for legitimate freelancers. Competition for freelance design work is not only increasing, [...]

The Importance Of The Big Picture

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I am currently working with a playwright to develop graphics to promote his inaugural work. We have had several discussions about the origins of the work – how he came to write it and its importance to him and and to the audiences that see it. We’ve discussed the message it communications and the manner [...]

Unpaid Internships Are A Form of Spec Work

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Why is spec work so prevalent in the design profession when it’s not in other professions? Increasingly companies – “creative” businesses included – are offering “unpaid internships” instead of hiring designers outright. In trying to reduce costs, they will offer an “internship” and even go through a selection process similar to that involved in standard [...]

A Monday Musing

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