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How Web Designers Fare in a Recession

This is a guest post from Bailey Digger about the realities of web design in challenging economic times. Some jobs are recession-proof while others suffer more when the economy is bad. Web design is not an essential service but there are several reasons why it can be considered recession-proof: Web designers can seek work in [...]

January 25, 2011 3 Comments Filed Under: Business, Internet
Tagged With: downturn, economy, graphic design, recession, web design

Designing and publishing a hospital radio magazine

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, cafe interior

I have been asked to help publish a magazine by a hospital radio station. Anyone who has had any sort of stay in a hospital will tell you that hospital radio with it’s music, news and entertainment is a welcome diversion at a difficult time. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital One of the bigger hospitals in [...]

April 9, 2009 8 Comments Filed Under: Business, Design, Marketing
Tagged With: art, chelsea and westminster hospital, design, distributer, hospital radio, london, magazine, marketeers, Marketing, music, recession

Ways to beat a design and marketing slump

recession, credit crunch, slump, downturn, slowdown

Personally, I have noticed other recessions far sooner than this one. It seems like months and months of dreary economic forecasts had passed before I got an inkling that it was going on. Anyway, here’s some ways to defeat the dreaded downturn. Diversify Do something you’re not doing at the moment. Web designers should diversify [...]

July 19, 2008 16 Comments Filed Under: Business, Design, Marketing
Tagged With: artwork, budgets, christmas card, client, communications, crazy things, design, digital communication, downturn, economic forecasts, email, emailing, exercise, formatting, Illustrator, illustrators, Internet, internet design firms, marketeers, Marketing, marketing services, photo, photos, Photoshop, printing, professional capacity, ready artwork, recession, saving money, unilever, vector, vectors, web designers, work samples

Design and marketing in a recession

Recession needn't give us an uncertain future

Recession, credit crunch, slowdown – these are bywords of the moment and you would be forgiven for thinking that we’ve got to tighten out belts and prepare for hard times ahead. The natural inclination for some businesses might be to scale back on marketing activities in an effort to save money. But, last week it [...]

July 2, 2008 20 Comments Filed Under: Business, Design, Freelancing, Marketing
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Environmentally-friendly designing and marketing during a recession

I’ve noticed a trend emerge recently. A client of mine got me to design an invitation to a marketing event – cocktails at a new store – I sent him a beautifully designed invite in the form or a PDF and asked him how many he needed printed and he said: “Oh, there’s no need, [...]