My favourite links this week include: Valuable tips for marketing your freelance business, 10 common typography mistakes, the 50 things every graphic design student should know, 8 good design books, 10 free e-books for designers and tips for making more money as a graphic designer.
Valuable Tips for Marketing Your Freelance Design Business | Reencoded
When you’re working as a freelancer you know that the clients and projects rarely come by themselves. You have to work for them. In a market with competing designers all over the globe, it’s important to use your creativity and skills to land deals with as many potential clients as possible.
In this article I’ve listed 10 tips that should help you get closer to make a living as a freelance designer. I’m aware that not necessarily all these tips will fit everyone, but use your imagination and try to fit them to your business. Maybe these tips can also inspire you to come up with some tips of your own as well!
10 Common typography mistakes | The design cubicle
The goal of this post is to help designers and clients understand the importance of good type skills, while avoiding some of the common mistakes. Please keep in mind that most of these mistakes are subjective and can be changed varying on the project, goals or circumstances.
The 50 things every graphic design student should know | Jamie Wieck
From speaking to friends, colleagues and recalling my own experiences I’ve complied The 50, a list of 50 things I believe every graphic design student should know on leaving college. Some of these points are obvious, others less so – but all are brief, digestible nuggets of wisdom that will hopefully go some way to making the transition from graduate to designer a little bit smoother.
Nubby Twiglet: 8 Design books that I love
There’s always an endless stream of internet design inspiration at our fingertips but the feeling of flipping though a book can never be replaced. Over the years I’ve gathered a small library of design books that I refer to on a regular basis and though all quite different, I consider many of these titles to be indispensable for varying reasons. I am by no means proclaiming these books to be the best out there; these are simply titles that I personally own and have found to provide great content.
10 Free e-books for designers | Web Design Ledger
The following ten books contain a wide variety of valuable information for web designers, ranging from HTML5 to a guide for managing your time. There’s plenty here to keep you busy reading for a while. Enjoy!
Tips for making more money as a graphic designer | Designzzz
Pursuing a career in graphic arts or graphic designing is one of the most popular branches in the world these days. From brochures, flyers and leaflets to detergent boxes, album covers, and food cans…graphic designing is truly everywhere. It’s good to know that there are some creative ways the graphic designers can employ to earn more money without much more effort and we can then reap maximum benefits out of our career.
Valuable Tips for Marketing Your Freelance Design Business | Reencoded
When you’re working as a freelancer you know that the clients and projects rarely come by themselves. You have to work for them. In a market with competing designers all over the globe, it’s important to use your creativity and skills to land deals with as many potential clients as possible.
In this article I’ve listed 10 tips that should help you get closer to make a living as a freelance designer. I’m aware that not necessarily all these tips will fit everyone, but use your imagination and try to fit them to your business. Maybe these tips can also inspire you to come up with some tips of your own as well!
10 Common typography mistakes | The design cubicle
The goal of this post is to help designers and clients understand the importance of good type skills, while avoiding some of the common mistakes. Please keep in mind that most of these mistakes are subjective and can be changed varying on the project, goals or circumstances.
The 50 things every graphic design student should know | Jamie Wieck
From speaking to friends, colleagues and recalling my own experiences I’ve complied The 50, a list of 50 things I believe every graphic design student should know on leaving college. Some of these points are obvious, others less so – but all are brief, digestible nuggets of wisdom that will hopefully go some way to making the transition from graduate to designer a little bit smoother.
Nubby Twiglet: 8 Design books that I love
There’s always an endless stream of internet design inspiration at our fingertips but the feeling of flipping though a book can never be replaced. Over the years I’ve gathered a small library of design books that I refer to on a regular basis and though all quite different, I consider many of these titles to be indispensable for varying reasons. I am by no means proclaiming these books to be the best out there; these are simply titles that I personally own and have found to provide great content.
10 Free e-books for designers | Web Design Ledger
The following ten books contain a wide variety of valuable information for web designers, ranging from HTML5 to a guide for managing your time. There’s plenty here to keep you busy reading for a while. Enjoy!
Tips for making more money as a graphic designer | Designzzz
Pursuing a career in graphic arts or graphic designing is one of the most popular branches in the world these days. From brochures, flyers and leaflets to detergent boxes, album covers, and food cans…graphic designing is truly everywhere. It’s good to know that there are some creative ways the graphic designers can employ to earn more money without much more effort and we can then reap maximum benefits out of our career.
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