Whether a designer, business owner or academic, you may have been asked [or the person doing the asking] about speculative design. How should designers approach this tricky subject and approach their potential clients?
On 04.14.10, In Offline, by Peter Simcoe
Accountants, love ‘em or hate ‘em, are here to stay and in business you are never far from considering expenditure and income. Here are some ideas for freelancers with small businesses.
Faux pas and shock tactics can be the making of legends in the world of the mass media and internet. It can be a simple planned or unplanned slip of the tongue that sends your video or blog posting viral. Design-Design tries not to slip up and takes a look at a couple of classics.
Print designers take their company’s cashflow into their own hands each time they send off a print job. Knowing print process basics and how to avoid pitfalls from a client and designers perspective is useful.
Why spend your time contributing when you could be earning money? There are good reasons to contribute to the online discussion in your field without charging a fee as there are rewards to be had, both intellectual and financial.
On 02.17.10, In Online, by Peter Simcoe
Latest Tweets from the Simcoemedia Network. These tweets are designed to help businesses and other designers collect information about blogging, events and special offers from companies beneficial to web users.
Deleting files from your main drives can be a risky business unless you have appropriate backups and storage. Many computer users will tell you how they just didn’t quite get round to backup when its just too late.
Adobe have created their AIR framework allowing developers to utilise existing resources to create desktop applications. We look at Adobe Kuler, a colour selection desktop app created with AIR for designers.
On 01.18.10, In Online, by Peter Simcoe
Twitter. Is it a useful business tool, an effective example of social media or is it simply the self indulgent past-time of celebs and people with too much time and too little to contribute? Design-Design checks out this curious bird.
dpBestflow.org outlines best practice in taking and storing your digital images for your workflow and archiving. Establishing best practice now increases future productivity.
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