How to save money running a graphic design business

Here’s my top tips for saving money whilst running a graphic design business or as a freelance graphic designer.
Work from home. Use of house as business means that you can put some of the cost of home improvements and numerous other things to offset your profit and therefore pay less tax. Meet clients in [...]

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What is a graphic designer?

Websites, posters, business cards, detergent boxes, DVD artwork, movie credits and dog food cans – graphic designers do them. Within just about every conceivable employment sector, a graphic designer brands, advertises and communicates.
He works under time and money constraints and, to varying degrees, within guidelines. A graphic designer must use research from a marketing department [...]

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Designing web icons

Here are some icons I designed for a friend’s website. He asked me to make them at three sizes: 20 pixels wide, 80 pixels wide and 300 pixels wide.
There’s a real skill to designing icons. You have to make them simple enough to be understandable at small sizes but interesting enough to be beautiful when [...]

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Freelance designers blog to find work and make money

I would advise anyone who wants to make money and find more work to get blogging.
I was encouraged to get a WordPress blog by a friend but I didn’t really realise what blogging was at first. I thought, what’s the point of writing “I woke up this morning, had breakfast …”? I really only started [...]

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