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Freelance Survival Guide: Tips for New Freelancers

Inkbot Design

Freelance Survival Guide: Tips for New Freelancers. You can learn about starting your freelance business in the Freelance Survival Guide. You can learn about starting your freelance business in the Freelance Survival Guide. As a freelancer, you're constantly balancing deadlines and budgeting.

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Meet Ash Phillips and Miro LaFlaga, the agency founders ditching 'grind culture' and pushing for meaningful change

Creative Boom

With backgrounds in graphic design and business management, Ash and Miro's journey began in 2015 as freelance creative directors producing visuals for local artists in Montréal. We escaped and started freelancing but then realised we'd set ourselves another trap, if that makes sense? Miro: Yeah. Grand Montréal Comique.

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Artist Jeanine Brito hopes to turn bad memories into something beautiful through her surreal and theatrical paintings

Creative Boom

Based in Toronto but originally from Mainz, Germany, Jeanine Brito worked in graphic design and art direction after graduating with honours in Fashion Communication from Ryerson University in 2015. And that meant letting go of my job and all the stability that came with it, in favour of freelance design work to pay my bills.

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Ed Little of Regular Practice on what the next wave of branding design will look like

Creative Boom

Ed Little has come a long way for someone who left university in 2015 with a BA in Politics and Sociology and no idea what he wanted to do. Ed describes him as a great mentor, giving him valuable insights into the world of brand strategy while he also pursued side hustles in photography, social media and consulting.

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Andrew Satake Blauvelt Elevated Graphic Design Far Beyond Notions of “Problem Solving”

Eye on Design

“Graphic design must be seen as a discipline capable of generating meaning on its own terms without undue reliance on commissions, prescriptive social functions, or specific media or styles,” wrote designer, curator, and writer Andrew Satake Blauvelt in 2003. . Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia, 1964–1974 Walker Art Center, 2015.

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Inspiring creative women to follow in 2022

Creative Boom

Elsewhere, Olivia also works as a freelance sports reporter. She holds an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading and degrees in Graphic Design from Central Saint Martins and Graphic & Media Design from the Sapienza University of Rome. Olivia Christian. Jolene Delisle. Alessia Mazzarella.

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40 Best Creative Podcasts To Liven Up Your Day

Shillington

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.