Creative Journal
Read advice on creating a design business, how to be a designer and ethical and legal issues
Own your content
Social media provides a free service on which to publish content. If that content is lost for security reasons or comprised data, you may not get it back. Placing your content on your website and sharing it on social media is one way to keep your own work safe.
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!
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?
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