Going from full time employment to freelance is quite a jump. Being your own boss, working your own hours from home and calling the shots are all the advantages of being a freelance web designer. When I made the jump a couple of years ago there were few things I wish I’d known beforehand that [...]
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Moving to Freelance Checklist
Friday, June 4th, 2010Understanding the brief
Sunday, April 4th, 2010Design briefs come in all shapes and sizes and as it’s the start of most design projects it’s important to gain a good understanding of the job ahead. As a freelancer it’s a good idea to draw up a questionnaire type template that you can re-use per client but try not to make it too [...]
The emotion behind the design
Saturday, February 13th, 2010I watched an episode of Design for life recently and in it, Philippe Starck was briefing the contestants on the next project. Before presenting the brief he lit some incense and told them that from that moment on, whenever they smelt incense it would remind them that it was their duty to ‘create something’.