20 Free Grunge Like Fonts For Your Creative Projects
Share Everyone seems to be talking about grunge nowadays. Are you a fan of worn out and destroyed style aswell? If the answer is YES, I am sure you’ll enjoy this little collection of 20 free grunge fonts from fonts2u.com that I have built up below. I am sure few of them will become your [...]
Design Community Survey
Share Below is a questionnaire that will take you no more than 5 minutes to complete. What I hope to do is when enough have filled it out is make some insights into the design community and get my maths boffin friend to compile some lovely little pie charts and comparative graphs.
Don’t be another washed up freelancer – The Freelance Lifecycle
Share The more I network on sites such as twitter and talk to freelancers around the world; typical life – cycle seems to be the same for freelancers – especially within the first 6 months and a condition that I am now going to call ‘the-slump‘ strikes again!
How do your organise yourself as a freelance designer? – Part 2
Share Hi all.. Welcome to Part 2 of the first post: How do your organise yourself as a freelance designer? This is more of a search for ideas and methods than an informative article. No matter how often I tidy and plan ahead, my desk after about 2 weeks always seems to revert back to [...]
Should Your Website Have A Client List
Share Should your website have a client list? This is a question that a client popped to me not long ago. That got me thinking.. is it a necessity or a bit of self indulgent showy-off-ness? I then asked some of my previous clients about what they looked for when they selected Acuity Designs for their project; [...]
Graphic Designer Arguing With Client Video
Share Hi all, found this video in my travels of a graphic designers conversation with a client! Hilarious! Be warned Language is very strong in the video!
5 Free Non-Disclosure Agreements
Share Non disclosure Agreements are something that comes up at some point in time. Especially, say you are outsourcing a part of a project to another freelancer or design agency. Over time – I have compiled the following samples that helped me create my own tailored NDA. Thanks to their authors. If an download errors pop-up, please [...]
Aurora Borealis Typopgraphy Wallpaper Photoshop Tutorial
Share I recently created this wallpaper for Lucidry an online inspirational, business, social media and creative professional website. I thought it would be great to share my process in a tutorial! You can download my version here. Hope you enjoy. Step 1 Create a new document that is the screen resolution of your PC/Laptop Screen [...]
5 Free Web Design Proposal Contracts
Share I recently wrote an article: what to include in a design project proposal. Which helped me think through the things I normal include in say a branding project. However, for the web its evident different things are involved. In my web travels I have found the following sample contracts and proposal examples – thought [...]
A Monitor for Every Budget – What Monitor for Photography and Design?
Share Once again, I found an excuse to upgrade my monitor and so went on the hunt for the best design appropriate monitors. A while back I did another search and came up with the list of monitors for design. I went for the HP w2558hc in the end. Great monitor and I can’t recommend [...]
Referrals – Freelancing Dreams
Share We were just having through our client list generated during 2009. Kind of surprised but encouraged to see that a substantial amount of our work came through referrals. Referrals – Need ‘Em, Get ‘Em, Love ‘Em. Referrals are great as clients who have used your services and are happy bar the standard of your [...]
Factors To Consider When Pricing A Project – Part 2
Share Hi all, this is a follow up to a post I made not long ago about factors that we often forget to factor in when we price projects. See that post here: Factors To Consider When Pricing For A Project Excerpt: We all remember to bill for the design work we do and the [...]
Freelancing From Home and Staying Productive
Share If you have chosen to work from and not from an office, then you are probably faced with the same problems that I am, most notable is the problem of staying productive! More experienced freelancers have probably long tamed the beasts that tempt us when working from home… how do you stay productive at [...]
Long Term Freelancing Success – Part 2 – Marketing
Share Welcome to the second installment of this series – Marketing. You can view the other parts here: Long Term Freelancing Success. Marketing is one of the key elements of any business and as a freelancer it should be a huge part of your strategy towards growth and success. So in this post I’m going [...]
Give Old Photos A Punchy Stylistic Feel – Photoshop Tutorial – with Video
Share I found a number of old photos and after scanning them in – they had a grainy finish and had lost the punch and impact they once had. So I devised this little process to give them their punch back! Hopefully its of use to yourself. You can follow along with the screenshots or [...]
5 Articles To Understanding Your Websites Bounce Rate
Share Understanding your website’s bounce rate can be the key between creating a more user friendly or profitable website. The 5 articles below should hopefully help you to do that: How to Analyze and Improve the ‘Bounce Rate’ for Your Website Getting users engaged with your content can result with a sale, subscription, bookmark and [...]
What Should You Include In A Design Project Proposal?
Share Last week, we were asked for the first time to send over a detailed project proposal in response to an initial brief document; for a fairly large client. This was the first time we received this request: normally things flow in the normal sense of client contact – meeting – quote – project. The [...]
Does a successful freelancer have to be a good sales person?
Share When starting out, when your down in the trenches fighting against the colossal agencies and your fellow freelancing kin, do you have to be a good sales person in order to secure projects? Do you feel freelancers need to be sales orientated? Are you a good sales person? The internet has given clients information [...]
General Rules For Doing Free Freelance Work
Share Every now and then, hopefully not too often something may come along whether it is for family / friends / a charitable cause / a non-profit organisation etc where you make the decision to waive your normal fee for your services. I have been in a few of these situations and I have learnt [...]
Turn A Boring Photo Into An Emotive Portrait – Photoshop Tutorial – with video
Share This is a fairly ‘intermediate’ tutorial, although most beginners will be able to follow along with the video. It’s a neat little tutorial packed full of lots of little gems and tricks which we use in order to arrive the result; which is a much more stylistic portrait, that’s a lot more emotive and [...]
Interview With Will Kay of OddKingdom – Becoming Your Brand
Share When first starting out in any of the creative arts as a freelancer or sole designer; marketing is one of the biggest concerns. Getting clients, letting people know that you exist. Many of us started out and drudged through the first year or so through referrals, family and friends and exhausting every contact we [...]
Factors To Consider When Pricing For A Project
Share One of the things I suffered from in the beginning when pricing clients is often forgetting to bill for all aspects of a project and thus half way through I was feeling cheated or clients were commenting on how remarkably low my prices where in comparison to other quotes they had received. We all [...]
Interview with Illustrator and Artworker – Liam Barry
Share Hi Liam, thanks for taking the time to talk to us. For those who have not come across you before, can you tell us a little about yourself, what it is you do and your work?
Mar 03, 2010 | Categories: Commentary, Illustration | Tags: Illustration, interview | 2 Comments »