We Wish You A Merry Christmas and Safe Holiday Season

Published on Thursday, December 24 2009 2 interesting comments

The Design Cubicle wishes you all a very Merry Christmas and a safe holiday season!
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The Best of Twitter 2009: Graphic Design Edition

Published on Sunday, December 20 2009 23 interesting comments

For those non-weekend readers of The Design Cubicle, Sweet Tweets is my weekend round-up of the best design resources of the week I’ve discovered via Twitter each week.

Since starting Sweet Tweets I have accumulated 28 weeks worth of resources and for this post have hand-selected the best of each week for a Sweet Tweets 2009 Best Of the Best roundup.
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Sweet Tweets: Design Resources of the Week #28

Published on Saturday, December 19 2009 7 interesting comments

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 – because having resources and staying up-to-date is important in growth and development.
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Educated clients equal more clients

Published on Monday, December 14 2009 22 interesting comments

Often I get emails saying something on the lines of “Why do you just give your information and insights away?” or “How does a design blog attract clients?”

Easy answer: Educated clients equal happy clients, and when clients are happy your business is even happier. There are two reasons that I started The Design Cubicle: first to help and inspire other designers and, second, to spread design education and awareness to those looking to hire design professionals.

The question now is: How can we educate clients to help them better understand what we do as graphic designers. Someone is not going to fork over thousands of dollars to something they don’t see just because — you have to educate them from start to finish. Here’s how:
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