Recently I have been receiving many emails from designers asking me what’s the “best practice” for pricing design work or how much do you charge for a design. I like to start off by saying there is no “best practice”, but there are a number of factors to consider when pricing your work and services. [...]
Archive for July, 2009
A Special Need logo design process
A Special Need is a nanny agency devoted to providing nannies experienced in special needs to parents. The brand new company was in need of a logo to represent their services and online blog that helps parents and professionals. Defining the goal Each of my brand identity projects starts with a logo questionnaire, which assists [...]
Sweet Tweets: Design Resources of the Week #10
Sweet Tweets is a weekend feature to The Design Cubicle highlighting some of my favorite, and other Twitterer’s design-related links discovered via Twitter throughout the work week. Week of 7-20-09: High-quality Free Font: Neuforma Family “Let me introduce to you my first font family which is called “Neuforma”. I’ve made 4 weights for this and [...]
Tips For Designers To Gain Exposure and Experience
In this guest article, Preston Lee guides new graphic designers with various tips and techniques on how to gain working experience in a ‘tough-to-start-out-in’ field. As a designer, you’ve certainly run into the classical blunder: You can’t get real design experience without a design job, and you can’t get a design job without real-world experience. This [...]
What to Include In Your Design Contracts
If you’re a freelance graphic designer (or any profession for that matter) and do not have contracts or standard terms and conditions that you provide your clients to sign prior to starting a project… well let’s just say you’re silly. You will at some point need it to protect your business, as for the reason [...]
Sweet Tweets: Design Resources of the Week #9
Sweet Tweets is a weekend feature to The Design Cubicle highlighting some of my favorite, and other Twitterer’s design-related links discovered via Twitter throughout the work week. Week of 7-13-09: 21 Fonts That Shouldn’t Be Free… But Are “With so many free fonts out there (Da Font currently has over 9000 fonts to choose from) [...]
