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This is Stupid... (A Burnout?)
Take a minute before you make any snap judgments and think about the problem. There's no harm in taking a 5-minute walk to figure things out, especially if it leads you to a sober perspective on the situation.
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More Bang for your Buck
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**Anti-Designers**
Seems more and more lately, everywhere I look there is some company marketing a product that claims to cut out the need for a designer. It both angers and saddens me to see this, and with all due respect, I believe it is nothing more than false adverti...
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Low Budget Clients, Worthwhile?
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Discount on Morality
Once upon a time Oscar Wilde was at a gathering. He spied a beautiful woman on the other side of the room, and approached her. After some small talk, he asked, "Would you be willing to sleep with me for a million dollars?"
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Making Priorities a Priority
There is nothing more frustrating than trying to convince someone of the importance of your priorities, especially when they stand in the way of your completing them. The question is how do we make our priorities seem important to others who we often need to conclude our many tasks?
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Contracts vs. Agreements
This of course got me wondering how his memory could be so flawed, so I went back into my files and retrieved the past contracts to look over. Lo-and-behold there they were but they were not contracts as much as they were agreements.
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Pricing Low is Low
So I'm looking for a new apartment and I find myself trying to decide
which newspaper ad is worth my time. The process to determining whether I want to travel an hour out of my way to see that oh-so-ideal apartment is if it seems "too good to be true".
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What's Done is Done
For over a year now I have dispensed professional advice ranging from "Low budget clients" to the importance of sketching your work first but today something occurs to me to be very important to share with you. Today I want to let you know what constitutes finished work.
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Mo' Money
I once had a friend ask me if I thought it ethical to charge one company more for design than a company that was much smaller for the same amount of work. My answer, to this day, is still yes.
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Spec Revisited
Imagine if you will the kind of costs that are incurred when a business decides that each prospect client is to be approached by offering free sample work, tailor made for each individual client. First there is the time spent by the sales team who appr...
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Sketch, Sketch, Sketch!
The process of design before computers involved sketching out a thought process and defining the direction of the project however since computers have become an essential part of this process many designers are no longer sketching before they begin work on a project.
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E-mail 101
Chances are that if you are reading this newsletter you have a computer and on that computer you also likely have some sort of text editor. I use Microsoft Word and for smaller documents my e-mail built in editor is also fine.
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Idealism
Where would the world be without idealists- people who see beyond the rules, policies and general routines of existence that only societies can proclaim? Picture a mindless, colorless world without wonder or pleasure and that should about cover it.
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The Buck stops - where?
As an independent designer with my own business it is far easier for me to arrange to deal with one representative on client projects.
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