Some time ago, my desk moved upstairs to a new office. The office used to be a bedroom and the wall colour is a shade of less-than-inspiring brown. I have been finding it very hard to keep my desk clean, focus, and get in the zone.
As such I’m going to give it a makeover with [...]
I was in my friend Jemma’s art gallery today (shameless plug!) and she made a statement about artists who think they’re better than they are. Not her artists, if any of you are reading!
I got thinking about how that applies designers as well. The designer ego is essential and we all have it. If we thought [...]
Now that I’ve successfully completed one year of freelancing followed by one year of full-time at a design agency, I’ve decided to give the past two years a proper critique.
Freelance Pros
Setting my own schedule. I often worked long hours throughout the week so that I could have one or two ’sleep-in’ days.
Bragging rights. I used [...]
When I was a freelance web designer, I had to take work as it came in, which often meant converting PSDs into CSS & XHTML. I have always found it frustrating to code up a design that has obviously been done by a print or graphic designer, and by that I mean anyone who [...]
A while back, Vitamin blogged about the communication barrier between designers and developers. Having worked with quite a few developers, I thought I’d answer the questions that are applicable to me.
