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Graphic Design Icons – Wally Olins

Not every designer’s fame has to go hand in hand with such glamourous and sparkly industries as film or music. One of the most successful and highly regarded designer’s specialises in corporate identity. Despite studying history at Oxford, Wally Olin’s future was to be in branding. Starting off working...

Graphic Designer’s Gift Guide – Part 2

Last week, we gave readers a few of our favorite gift ideas for graphic designers – with the promise of more to come! In this second installment of DesignContest.com’s Graphic Designer Gift Guide, we’ll highlight a few more of our favorites, just in time for your holiday shopping! 1....

Learning to Budget With a Freelancer’s Life

We know the business pretty well, and we also happen to know the people (that would be the designers like you and me) to boot. With that in mind, we feel as if one of the areas in which most of us fail is personal budgeting, as well as...

The basic stages for building a webpage

Whether it is just to promote contact details with a banner or to find a home for your e-commerce, , every business needs a website, these days.  Although an easily accessible way to advertise a company, the web design and development process is unclear for most business owners. Rather...

How to Network as a Graphic Designer

In a previous post, we talked a little about how much most of us avoid networking. The act of physically advertising our skills, talents, and services doesn’t come naturally (Even with our Creative Egos!) and yet there’s no other way to gain business than through networking techniques. If one...

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