New YouTube Channel Art Free Download

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Just when you thought you were safe to leave home without worrying about a major new social network design change … another one happens! YouTube have just rolled out their new channel design to the masses. So, why should we care and what do we need to know about it? Well, we should care because [...]

DMP008: Travelling Graphic Designer Karen Mareš

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This is my 8th podcast and interview with an independent graphic designer. In this episode I talk to Karen Mareš, née Karen McDade, about travelling, Photoshop, design, clients, websites and life! Click here to subscribe to my “Design and Marketing Podcast” on iTunes! Have laptop, iMac, Cintiq; will design It’s probably misleading to describe Karen [...]

SEO for the Small Business

SEO for the Small Business

Small business owners may be required to do many things. Selling, accounting, marketing … yes. But, master the dark arts of SEO? Surely not! You should, of course, be concentrating on creating the best products and providing the best services. That’s a “given.” But there is a reliable way of creating an ongoing stream of [...]

How Web Designers Can Offer Print Design Services

How Web Designers Can Offer Print Design Services

From the outside they seem as two completely different worlds: One is static, traditional, tangible. The other is mercurial, modern, temporary. And there’s a certain amount of envy from both sides. Print designers, although despairing at times with the baffling technology, are in awe of what’s achievable on the web. And web designers are covetousness [...]

Freelance Designer or Design Business?

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Are you a freelancer or an entrepreneur? This question occurred to me while talking to Alex Mathers from the RedLemonClub a site that offers advice for the freelance creative. There was a time when I called myself a “freelance graphic designer” and had that as the title of this site. I wrote plenty of articles [...]

DMP 007: Marketing for Freelance Creatives with Alex Mathers

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I’m really excited to welcome Alex Mathers to the Design and Marketing Podcast. Alex is a freelance illustrator who has been on my radar for many years primarily because of his excellent RedLemonClub site for freelance creatives. I joined his mailing list back in 2009 (I don’t think I’ve been on any other list for [...]

DMP 006: Starting a Web Design Business with John Romaine

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Here is my 6th show in the Design and Marketing Podcast where I speak to Aussie web designer and passive income fiend, John Romaine. We talk a bit about John’s background in the east coast of Australia as well as contributory factors that led up to his decision to quit his stable government job to [...]

Whether To Use Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign?

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Adobe’s Creative Suite of programs includes some heavy-weight applications that are mainstay tools for millions of graphic designers all over the world. Everyone knows what Photoshop does – it’s the photo-manipulation software. It’s forced it’s way into the English language. You hear kids these days looking at a photo of a model saying “her skin’s [...]

DMP 005: Running a Design Business with Wes McDowell

Running a Design Business with Wes McDowell

My guest for the fifth episode of the Design and Marketing podcast is the wonderfully witty Wes McDowell. (Duration: c. 45 minutes.) Wes runs a design shop in Los Angeles, California, and is known for having one of the best design podcasts on iTunes, The Deeply Graphic DesignCast. But only a few years ago Wes [...]

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