Graphic, Web Design and Marketing, London | Rob Cubbon
Design, marketing, graphics, internet, print, London
Being an independent graphic designer and running your own business from home is the best life ever – at least that’s what we think. Here is a guide to the hardware, software and back-up used based on the answers from my representative sample of graphic designers. Further fascinating results from this survey can be found [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
H’mm, well, I’m not going to explain everything about print advertising in one little blog post. However, having just supplied a page ad for a magazine I thought I’d explain a bit about the process I went through from the initial ideas to supplying the final artwork. Supplying initial ideas Some designers will tell you [...]
I did this lectern idea for a company that did events where entrepreneurs pitch to investors. People from the UK will be familiar with this notion from the Dragons’ Den TV show. I’ve been a big fan of the show and I’ve always wondered how I would fair pitching a business idea. I would do [...]
I have successfully been on the first page in Google for freelance graphic designer for a few months now and I’m quite pleased with this. Marketing yourself is one of the most important things any professional or company will do. For this reason I’m going to write a number of articles about self-marketing, what I [...]
When and how did you get your start in the industry? I was working as a picture researcher for magazines and a night picture editor for newspapers in London when in 1992 I saw Photoshop for the first time and it was love at first sight. I then lied a lot to get my first [...]
I recently got my business cards printed and I was amazed at how much of a baffling array of online print companies there are trying to bag your business. Here and some of my golden rules for business card designing and printing. Don’t do a business card! Everyone does one! Have you got a bit [...]
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