Like any other creative industry, we as graphic designers get a lot of requests from various people to produce free items for them. This might be a website, a quick little banner, or even an entire marketing campaign. Either way, free work is almost never good idea: With some...
One of the absolute hardest thing any graphic designer, especially freelancers, has to deal with when establishing new clients and projects is setting a pricing scheme that works for both the designer and the client. Often times budgets are short, or prices are too harsh, leading to a lot...
No matter how you slice it, one of the hardest things to master in web or print design is coloring. It seems like we spend only a third of our time designing the project, and then the rest of our project hours simply trying to pick the hues that...
If you’re reading this, we can likely guess why: You’re charged with creating an advertisement for one of your clients, and either this is new territory for you, or you just simply don’t know where to go with the design project. Either way, if you’re needing a few pointers...
One of the things we really like to harp on here is minimalist design. Why? Because it’s easily one of the most marketable and best-looking principles out there. We’ve seen everyone from Twitter to Apple adopting the web design platform, and if you aren’t staying on top of these...