Graphic, Web Design and Marketing, London | Rob Cubbon
Design, marketing, graphics, internet, print, London
Here are the first results from my graphic designer’s business survey. I am so grateful to everybody that participated. I surveyed designers that were mostly working from home and running their own businesses. Participants were from every continent and were spread over different design disciplines. They represented every level of experience – from people who [...]
I’m running a survey about graphic designers who run their own businesses – whether they work at home or have employees, outsource and run much larger companies. There are many design and business sites in the blogosphere. However, design sites tend to focus on tutorials and inspiration whereas there isn’t a great deal of information [...]
It pains me to think of the $3000 I spent on a Mac Performa 6400 complete with a huge monitor and in-built 28K dial-up modem in the mid-90s. The machine chugged along like an aging donkey and the information super-highway felt more like a traffic jam. I wish I was starting now with readily available [...]
6 years ago I was typesetting company reports, trying not to look at the clock to see how soon I could go home. Now I work from home and every time I look at the clock I marvel at how quickly time passes! I have managed to cross-over from being a print designer and artworker [...]
A guest post from Louise Baker of Zen College Life For web designers, developers and amateur creative types that work with a lot of graphics and image manipulation, the decision of which software to use is an important one. While Adobe Photoshop and its related Creative Suite programs are well respected throughout the world, open [...]
There is a game in this industry: the trade off between graphic designer and client. I have heard this expression in large design agencies many times: “this would be a great job if it wasn’t for clients!” I disagree, I think it’s a great job period. If you don’t like your clients, get out of [...]
This article comes with a warning: easily offended graphic designers please do not read on! Graphic design is not rocket science, nor does it depend on artistic talent – it just takes a lot of practice. Some designers love to say that graphic design is a God-given talent that only a select few special people [...]
I wasn’t always a freelance graphic designer. I used to teach English to Brazilian businessmen but that’s another story. I started by working for newspapers and magazines so my background is in print. By a mixture of application and good fortune I taught myself how to create usable, aesthetic, standards-compliant websites and discovered how to [...]
10 years ago I had a big problem. I was a print designer but I loved the internet and desperately wanted to work with it. I wanted a software package that would let me mess around with drag-and-drop functionality and when I was ready I could click “GO” and miraculously produce perfect code. I was [...]
We all know that after writing a great post and hitting the publish button we’re not even halfway finished! There can be a seemingly endless marketing job to do by submitting a blog article to various social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Delicious. We can also choose to submit to social networking sites like [...]
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