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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 [...]

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, [...]

(Not) Your Dream Job

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This was a real post to an online job board: We are just weeks away to launch our new high end cosmetic line and are looking for a student graphic designer who would help us design the packaging, business cards etc. Some knowledge of the Asian Market would be appreciated. This is a great opportunity [...]

My Priceless Impromptu Focus Group

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                            I am currently designing a new print promotion series for myself. As happens occasionally when developing self-promotion pieces, I was lacking some confidence that what I wanted to say was coming across well. To obtain some honest objectivity, I put together [...]