Creative Journal
Read advice on creating a design business, how to be a designer and ethical and legal issues
Cultural and global design
Working with clients from across the world on their designs can be a different experience to working in your own language. Here’s a few things I’ve learned when collaborating with teams and clients that are international, in honour of International Design Day!
Design project management step by step
Most designers should have a process they follow to get the best results for their clients. I love a good workflow and if you’ve worked with me, then you’ll appreciate my nerdy love of a schedule. Writing this blog post is useful to set the scene. I hope you find it useful.
Does perfection really matter?
I was talking to a copywriter client last week about his website, which we are in the process of creating, and he happened to say hard it was writing his own words. I hear this a lot and it’s the same for me with my promotional work and this website. When you go public it’s scary isn’t it?
How to use fonts to create the right reaction
Fonts and how they are used is so important to setting the scene. This goes for memes, websites, print, branding… anywhere you write words and that’s a lot of places. Typography and the way it’s used is always a key part of the branding process
A-Z of book publishing: learning about design
If a book is well written, it deserves the investment of design. Reader inattention can be avoided with the thoughtful and careful consideration of an experienced book designer.
Ask The Expert: Book design
“Drive The Network asked award-winning creative and designer Berenice Smith of Hello Lovely to answer questions about how to design a book. There’s a lot more to it than we thought!”
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