Interview with Young Web Designer Jamie Billingham
Share A great gem for you today; we managed to catch up with Jamie Billingham, a 14 year old young and aspiring Web Designer. We managed to catch up with him and ask him about his interests, challenges and opinions about Web Design!
Designers – Maximising The Value Of Your Work
Share We here have been looking at developing a CRM system here, and as such we got talking about customer service and its relation to our business. Importantly, our pricing.
Interview with Glennray Tutor – PhotoRealism Painter
Share Hi all, an ABSOLUTE treat today… I came across the work of Glennray Tutor by chance via the wonder of the WWW. I then contacted him, and he was gracious enough to give me an interview and a rare insight into how he creates his truly mind-boggling photo-realistic paintings!
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?
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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Should You Find a Niche To Stand Out From The Pack?
Share This is a question that often comes up in my head, in my daily attempts at plotting on how to take over the design universe.. that surely it must be easy to top google and take over all the clients in the world if I find a niche. However, starting out, one might not [...]
Competing Against The Agency – The Freelancer’s Epic Battle
Share As a ‘noob’ to the freelance design industry in what I would consider a truly professional manner; I was somewhat naive as to how hard it would be to find clients. After the initial shock, I found myself confronted with one monumental competitor that seemed like Goliath; leaving me feeling like David (without his [...]
10 Ways To Score and Evaluate A Client
Share My past two posts have covered how to deal with non-paying clients and clients who want to become the designer. Good clients do exists and for the most part form the majority of your clientele; in a book I read through the idea of evaluating your clients. Times are hard, sending christmas cards to [...]
Join Us – Acuity Designs on Facebook
Share Hi all, Acuity Designs has just started a facebook group; giving you all another way to spread the word about our services and stay in touch with all things AD from our projects, to updates on fresh blog articles and posts! Acuity Designs on Facebook
Designing With Distractions
Share “To choose art means to turn one’s back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.” Melvin Maddocks Designing with distractions. Maybe this doesn’t only apply to freelance designers and illustrators. I think it’s probably a conundrum that faces people in every walk of life, particularly as they progress through student [...]
Creative Block – Beating It – Fresh ideas and inspiration
Share So your self-promotion has worked and you have that all important new client. The project itself has scope for you to add some personal style or artistic flair to it as well. After the initial brainstorming, research and sketches you are nowhere – with nothing visual to guide yourself. Creative block! We have various [...]
Interviewed by Crazy Leaf Design Blog
Share Hi all, recently we had the opportunity to respond to some questions put forward by Alex from Crazy Leaf Design… you can read the interview here: Interview between Crazy Leaf Design Blog and Acuity Designs
Is Alexa Traffic Rank Important – 4 resources to help you find out
Share ‘Is Alexa Traffic Rank Important??’ is something a client asked me the other day, and I realised I didn’t have a definite answer to give them… I found the following 4 articles to be very useful! 1 ) SEO Book: http://www.seobook.com/archives/000944.shtml Over the last few days my Alexa has doubled from around 13,400 to [...]
Bus retrospective Illustration Animation
Share People have asked how we organise files in Adobe Illustrator and how our pieces are composed. This short little video created in Adobe Flash which shows the illustrator .ai file in creation should hopefully shed a little light on how some of our pieces are created. View our illustration portfolio here llustration that addresses [...]
What Is Graphic Design? video
Share During our web travels we came across a nice little video by Becky Nasadowski that attempts to answer visually, the question: what is graphic design?… Enjoy
How to translate a website – considerations
Share Guest Writer: Tamara Bloom BSc, MSc Localisation/translating your website/… Do what with my website? First things first, why would you want to translate your website? Half the world speaks English anyway, right? In today’s ‘globalised’ society, clients are increasingly outsourcing commissions abroad in search of the best provider. If potential customers cannot even understand [...]
Interview with Illustrator, Designer, Musician Joel Gonsalves
Share Hi all, another treat for you today. We managed to sit down with another great talent in London. Illustrator, Musician, Designer ; Joel Gonsalves. An insightful work with some stunning illustrative work.
Jul 31, 2010 | Categories: Commentary, Illustration | Tags: Graphic Design, Illustration, interview | 4 Comments »