Fonts in Use

MAY 4, 2025

Langdon Biform is an early work of his, drawn in 1971 when he was in his mid-twenties, years before embarking on a career as freelance logo designer, type specialist, and lettering artist. 19681975 This post was originally published at Fonts In Use Stephen Coles. License: CC BY-NC-SA.

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Fonts in Use

MAY 4, 2025

Langdon Biform is an early work of his, drawn in 1971 when he was in his mid-twenties, years before embarking on a career as freelance logo designer, type specialist, and lettering artist. 19681975 This post was originally published at Fonts In Use Stephen Coles. License: CC BY-NC-SA.

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Eye on Design

AUGUST 23, 2021

Torrey Peters’s Detransition, Baby (designed by Random House’s Rachel Ake Keuch ) has been one of the most consequential pieces of mainstream fiction to publish this year: a modern relationship story that offers a view into urban trans culture. Nobody’s saying, ‘this is an image from a brand that we think would translate well to a book cover.’

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Shillington

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We last chatted to Shillington London graduate Holly Ovenden back in 2015, a year after she graduated, and had just started her career as a book cover designer. When we last chatted 8 years ago, you had just landed your dream job as a Junior Book Cover Designer at Bloomsbury Publishing. Wow—quite a lot has happened since then!

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Inkbot Design

DECEMBER 21, 2022

These books cover everything from the history of design to tips and tricks for modern design to how to become a successful freelancer. Hardcover Book DK (Author) English (Publication Language) 480 Pages – 03/02/2021 (Publication Date) – DK (Publisher). Best Design Books for Beginners. $48.49. Buy on Amazon. $34.99.

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Inkbot Design

AUGUST 12, 2022

A graphic designer can earn a good amount of money through freelance gigs. They can get jobs from freelancers. Chandler, Steve (Author) English (Publication Language) 198 Pages – 04/07/2021 (Publication Date) – Maurice Bassett (Publisher). They have thousands of freelancers in many different skill areas.

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Design You Trust

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

FadiToOn (Fadi Abou Hassan) is a widely published and award-winning freelance cartoonist. “I am a widely published and award-winning cartoonist/illustrator currently based in the UK. The exhibition is produced in cooperation with the Norwegian cartoonists’ Gallery, Norway 2015.

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Inkbot Design

MARCH 23, 2023

But we're talking about more than just freelance opportunities here. The World of Freelancing If you're like most professionals, you're probably tired of the corporate grind. One increasingly popular option is freelancing. But what is freelancing, and how does it differ from working for an employer? What is Freelancing?

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Shillington

MAY 28, 2020

In his 2015 book, Design Your Life, Vince Frost laid out his central idea that design thinking can apply to everything from business to life. Being Freelance. Since 2015, Steve Folland has spoken to more than 100 freelancers for this series of creative podcasts, about the trials of being freelance. Listen here.

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Inkbot Design

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Princeton Architectural Press Lupton, Ellen (Author) English (Publication Language) 264 Pages – 07/14/2015 (Publication Date) – Princeton Architectural Press (Publisher). You may choose to be a self-employed graphic designer or a freelancer. Graphic Design: The New Basics. −$17.01. $17.99. $25.00.

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Shillington

MARCH 15, 2022

In the last two years, she’s gone from strength to strength—with internships, junior designer roles, freelancing and now a midweight position at Siegel+Gale. I first came across Shillington back in 2015 when I was looking into graphic design courses, but at the time I wasn’t quite ready to change careers. Happy reading!

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Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

This approach is suitable for graphic designers who work in a company or a team of freelance designers (so they can access many professionals at a time). Hardcover Book Müller, Jens (Author) Japanese (Publication Language) 512 Pages – 03/29/2022 (Publication Date) – TASCHEN (Publisher) −$4.51 $25.49

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Logo Smith

MAY 24, 2021

previously published in 2014-2015. Halcyon Maps.

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SpyreStudios

AUGUST 19, 2021

Every freelancer will tell you that creating great designs is all about working with quality resources. First published in November 2015; updated August 2021. You can use this device for any project you have and it can run for 15 hours with just one full charge.

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SpyreStudios

DECEMBER 6, 2021

However, if you’re just a freelance designer or someone who’s testing the waters of prototyping tools, then iMockups could be a great fit. First published in March 2015; updated December 2021. But the GUI is simply resplendent, featuring an enormous amount of controls, drop-downs, and menus. Origami Live.

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Inkbot Design

JUNE 22, 2022

If you're passionate about graphic design, you can find opportunities in almost any industry, from advertising to publishing to healthcare. Princeton Architectural Press Lupton, Ellen (Author) English (Publication Language) 264 Pages - 07/14/2015 (Publication Date) - Princeton Architectural Press (Publisher). −$15.30.

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Shillington

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Hailing from Rome, Italy, Pápay Fanny is a freelance designer whose feed is an explosion of colour! Shillington London graduate and Freelance Digital Designer Nouran Zedan has a beautifully curated Instagram of her latest 3D illustrations, type experiments, hand drawn illustrations and designs. Pápay Fanny. Totally Okay. Nouran Zedan.

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Shillington

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Combining fun illustrations with witty expressions that would resonate with any true introvert, his project is now being published into a book of 31 postcards to tear out and send to all the introverts in your life. In March of 2017 illustrator, Josh Ryan created his series Introflirted , a series of love notes for introverts.

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Inkbot Design

AUGUST 15, 2024

1 Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (3rd Edition, Revised and Expanded) Lupton, Ellen (Author) English (Publication Language) 256 Pages – 03/12/2024 (Publication Date) – Princeton Architectural Press (Publisher) −$5.20 $24.75

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Shillington

JULY 13, 2020

Natalie Taylor discovered Shillington when she was working in a marketing role at a publisher in Oxford. Since graduating, Natalie freelanced to gain more industry experience and expand her portfolio. You have a background in marketing, publishing and photography. At what moment did you decide to take the leap and study design?

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

was originally published in UX Collective on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. The new design frontier. Available at: [link] Candelaria, B. 4 reasons to get into UX in 2022. Available at: [link]. Does UX have an imposter problem?

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Eye on Design

JUNE 24, 2022

It was originally published on September 19, 2019. Krishnamurthy ran the gallery alongside the design studio Project Projects , which he founded along with Adam Michaels, and which was known for its web, print, exhibition, and identity work for cultural clients (it also won a Cooper Hewitt Design award in 2015).

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Shillington

APRIL 2, 2021

What inspired you to start Creative Plus Business and how did your experiences as a freelancer influence your vision for the company from the offset? I’ve been freelancing since I was a teenager (hundreds of years ago) and everything I learned about business, I had to learn the hard way. Even a simple coffee can help!

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UX Collective

JULY 14, 2023

There was the one at the Atlanta Marriott during Dragon Con 2015. Freelance journalist Ashish Valentine writes for NPR : When the urban planner Robert Moses began building projects in New York during the 1920s, he bulldozed Black and Latino homes to make way for parks, and built highways through the middle of minority neighborhoods.

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Shillington

JULY 28, 2021

I learnt lots there but it wasn’t a great fit for me, so I accepted a role close to home, working in-house at a leading educational publisher. There’s a wealth of evidence to suggest that BAME creatives may be subject to biases that affect their employment (Creative Diversity, Creative Industries Federation, 2015).

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Graphic Mama

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But we were working enough to have a lot of personal artwork already published on art stations or different platforms. J: Everyone was spread around the world and most of the artists were freelancers. The movie is released in December 2018 but the work on the production starts in 2015. So, the clients started to come.

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Inkbot Design

MAY 18, 2023

So, whether you're considering freelancing or are already deep in the game, you're in good company! Sale Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity Allen, David (Author) English (Publication Language) 352 Pages – 03/17/2015 (Publication Date) – Penguin Books (Publisher) −$4.01 $13.99

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UX Collective

MAY 16, 2021

The most common reason against contracting and freelancing is financial uncertainty. I’ve been moving around since I started consulting in 2015. Originally published at [link] on May 9, 2021. The UX Collective donates US$1 for each article we publish. But what’s your comfort blanket for pushing your career?

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Inkbot Design

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Flexibility is no longer just for freelancers and consultants who can choose when to work and how. The most recent research, published in 2015, suggested that although flexible working increased employee satisfaction and the willingness to work overtime, it did not increase employee productivity.

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UX Collective

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

I was presented with this opportunity in the summer of 2015. Being self-taught and having mostly freelance and early-stage startup experience at the time, I had already considered myself a generalist. Until that point, I had spent two years living in Germany and working for an early-stage startup in Luxembourg. What was it like?

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You The Designer

MARCH 23, 2017

Hear from key figures in the British independent magazine publishing, interviewed at 2015’s Pick Me Up festival: Rob Alderson, Printed Pages. Yes, it’s very UK-centric, but you’ll be hard pressed to find something better if you want to build your own magazine, or at least go into publishing. by Magculture.

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Design Week

APRIL 29, 2020

“I began my design career as a freelancer, which gave me the opportunity to work on really exciting projects and to see how different studios operated. If I enjoyed freelancing in a studio I would stay in touch with them after a project had ended. ” – Morag Myerscough, Studio Myerscough.

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Eye on Design

AUGUST 8, 2022

was published in Emigre magazine alongside a body of other writing on the notion of “design authorship.” Already a prolific writer, Blauvelt focused his research on publishing, design history, and cultural theory, alongside running an active freelance practice. Catalog Design: Andrew Blauvelt and Emmet Byrne.

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Template Monster

JUNE 24, 2022

Pay Per Click consulting (freelance). According to the American Consumer Electronics Association in 2015, about 700 thousand consumers in the United States wanted to acquire unmanned aerial vehicles as a gift. Only the US sales market in 2015 was $ 105 million in revenue, up 52% from 2014. Self-Publish a Book on Amazon.

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Canny

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The vast majority of video content is hosted online and is published on the company’s website. Publishing a low quality video on your website or your social media can really cheapen your brand. From freelancers to small companies to large corporations, you’re well and truly spoilt for choice. Google and search engines.

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Shillington

JUNE 14, 2021

Originally taking on some passion projects, Hom soon grew her practice into a fully fledged and fully thriving freelance practice. Under this guise, his work has been published both locally in South Africa and internationally in the US, UK, Spain, Croatia, Germany and Mexico. Paula Scher. Kitiya Palaskas. Craig Oldham. Noemie Le Coz.

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