Design Milk

DECEMBER 20, 2023

We wrap up another year of DMTV Milkshake where architects, interior designers, small business owners, and other creatives peel back the curtain and share more about their work, passions, and studio spaces. The creative director reminisces about the exact moment that inspired her to create her work and how she now designs for all her senses.

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SpeckyBoy

MAY 14, 2021

CSS Hell – A resource that lists common CSS mistakes and how to fix them. 4 Ways Clients Can Hurt Project Outcomes (and How You Can Save the Day) – Tips for keeping your clients on track during the design and build processes. The 50 Best Fonts for Creating Stunning Logos in 2021 – Want to design a perfect logo?

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SpeckyBoy

APRIL 10, 2023

Freelance designers are likely to deal with the occasional client from hell. I’m thankful that most of my client experiences have been positive. And just as bad clients display certain traits – so do good ones. With that in mind, let’s look at traits that make for a great web design client.

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We And The Color

MARCH 1, 2025

Dealing with Bad Clients: How to Keep Your Sanity (and Your Business!) So, you’re a freelance designer or run a design studio? But let’s be real, running a design business isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. Have you ever had those clients who make you question your career choices? Bad clients.

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Shillington

MARCH 20, 2020

Establishing the right freelance graphic design rates is a very important process that you need to take seriously. However, it’s something that many designers struggle with. If you are fearful that graphic design could never turn into a practical career, we’re here to tell you it can and will. Hate the idea of a 9-to-5 job?

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Creative Review

MAY 31, 2021

I quickly realised that reading Victorian literature or in fact any literature was my idea of hell and found myself endlessly jealous of my flatmates who were taking art or design-based courses,” Barker tells CR. Barker then begins working in her sketchbook, and her drawings take the form of rough compositions.

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Shillington

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Maybe you have some extra free time to yourself or perhaps you’ve hit that one major hurdle that every graphic designer dreads: a creative rut. To get you started, here are 6 graphic design project ideas you can try the next time you need a little extra motivation. Fake Clients. What Should I Design.

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HONGKIAT

AUGUST 22, 2021

Freelance design is great, but nobody I know so far has remained as he or she was before after years of running a ( often traumatic ) freelance experience. Whether you love these traits or hate them, they are effects found in people who have gone perhaps, too far in freelance design. What about the clients? Just to make sure.

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Just Creative

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Do you know a graphic designer, artist or illustrator? We feel your pain and thought there’s no better way for us to help, being creatives ourselves than to offer up a list chock full of great gifts for the creative in your life, whether they be an artist, graphic designer, or illustrator. I know, right?

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Smashing Magazine Graphics

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

What Saul Bass Can Teach Us About Web Design. What Saul Bass Can Teach Us About Web Design. Web design exists at a lovely intersection of different disciplines. This time we’ll be looking at one of the all-time great graphic designers — Saul Bass. Saul Bass is a graphic design legend. Frederick O’Brien.

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Creative Boom

JULY 21, 2024

No: creativity can't be sped up": Max De Lucia, co-founder and director, DLMDD We run a creative sound agency that designs identities and soundtracks for some of the biggest brands in the world. Who the hell would want 20% less of that? We are a client-driven industry, though.

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Creative Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

I’m not adverse to a bit of painting and decorating but it wasn’t really what I had in mind” – he went to Ravensbourne College to study visual design and communication, and following a stint as a photojournalist, made his way into advertising.

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Azure Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

With expansive approaches to architecture and design, the practitioners we profile in this multi-part feature are unleashing vibrant new aesthetics, reimagining our shared spaces for better inclusivity and forging new connections for collaboration. Along the way, she also passes by the East River’s Hell Gate Bridge.

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Canny

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

No two clients are the exact same, and no two businesses need identical web, branding and content deliverables. SEO has to consider cumulative layout shift, largest contentful paint speeds, mobile responsiveness, mobile first web design, backlink profiles, and even server side considerations like SSL certificates and server response times.

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Abduzeedo

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Brand Identity & Web Design for Iceberg Hotels. AoiroStudio Oct 22, 2019 We would like to share the work of Andreas Leah who is an interaction designer based in New York, USA. He worked on the brand identity, graphic design and web design which is pretty fantastic and one hell of a project to take on. More Links.

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Shillington

AUGUST 20, 2023

One of the best things about graphic design is that it never stands still for a moment. That’s where design blogs come in. Some of these are specific to one industry or discipline, some are broad and wide-ranging, and we’ve also included a few company blogs that have useful insights for designers as a whole.

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Design with Red

JUNE 6, 2021

I know you had fun laughing at shitty clients from hell memes that we posted last week. Today we are going to share more graphic design memes that can bright up your stressful day. The post Graphic Design Memes to Make You Laugh appeared first on Design with Red.

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Graphic Mama

JUNE 23, 2022

In this article, we will go through some stunning marketing website design ideas , and most importantly – you will see 47 real-life examples of successful creative agency sites that work. Let your potential clients reach you easily – simplify contact forms and be present. Linear design. And a little bit of flair.

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Canny

JUNE 30, 2021

We’ve covered a lot of topics from brand strategy and brand identity, through to web design, ecommerce, and marketing. Choosing an agency like Canny with a dedicated Account Manager and multiple designers and developers can help ensure deadlines are met, and nothing is missed along the way. free ebook. What is the marketing team using?

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Catherine and VW Fowlkes attended architectural school together – not at the same place (Catherine graduated from MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning, VW from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design) but at the same time: “We lived together and had our own shared hell together,” says Catherine, with a smile. “I

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 3, 2023

While I am still at the beginning of exploring this great creator and his work, watching the documentary The Genius of the Place really made me want to write about what user experience designers in the digital world can learn from this brilliant user experience designer in the real world. Bawa is known for not repeating his designs.

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Eye on Design

MAY 26, 2021

“Why another graphic design magazine?” And so begins this new magazine founded by graphic designers Peter Bil’ak, Stuart Bertollotti-Bailey, and Jürgen X. In 2005, Poynor described Dot Dot Dot as “the most stimulating and original visual culture magazine produced by designers since Emigre’s heyday in the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.”

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Under Consideration / Brand

DECEMBER 30, 2019

9 New Logo and Identity for Cheetah by Moving Brands I'm a Moving Brands fan and I do believe them when they say this funky logo is appropriate for the personality of their client so it pains me to say this but, man, that Cheetah-type-animal-thing is a real eyesore and the kind of concept perpetrated by a Year 1 design student.

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Inkbot Design

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Between losing clients because of poor image quality and having them rave about your attention to detail. Once you get the hang of it, you'll have an excellent start for your design adventures. Thats why these graphics are a go-to in digital design, able to handle hundreds of colours and gradients. It sounds fancy, right?

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Canny

JUNE 7, 2022

B2B marketing agencies, such as ourselves, tend to work collaboratively with clients. In other words, you can be informative without being boring, as proven by the thousands upon thousands of words we’ve already written for clients. Clients such as YardLink , iVent, and Learning Journals, to name but a few. Hanapin Marketing.

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Lisa Maltby

APRIL 16, 2021

Perhaps you’ve been stuck in a rut of undercharging and you don’t know how to get out of it, or maybe you’re disheartened comparing yourself to other artists’ fees and wondering how the hell they can command such high rates. No one can tell you how to run your business – not agents, not clients, and certainly not me.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2019

At the decade’s opening, it was a paradigm-shifting structure, its design a calculated respite from the parametricism that dominated prior years. From the outset, the CCTV project generated controversy because the client was widely regarded as a purveyor of government propaganda. CCTV Headquarters by OMA, 2012.

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Canny

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It makes you a hell of a lot more relatable as a result as you are a lot more active, which shows you care. It’s interactive in nature and designed to help in hope that audiences turn into leads eventually. Movies are rife with product placement and businesses pay a hell of a lot of money to get its products on the big screen.

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Shillington

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Shillington plays host to incredible industry lectures every semester, offering our students the opportunity to learn from and meet experienced professionals across the multitude of practices within the field of design. The desire not only to inform but to enhance community comes across in the way Mike talks about his work as a designer.

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Shillington

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Shillington plays host to incredible industry lectures every semester, offering our students the opportunity to learn from and meet experienced professionals across the multitude of practices within the field of design. The desire not only to inform but to enhance community comes across in the way Mike talks about his work as a designer.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

How does the design studio behind Kyiv’s central food market and other vibrant gathering spots respond when the city has suddenly transformed into a battlefield? “We In the midst of all this devastation, Balbek Bureau is proving the power of design to inspire hope and deliver meaningful support. DESIGN, INTERRUPTED.

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Inkbot Design

JULY 18, 2024

Is Studying Graphic Design Still a Relevant Profession for Students? Graphic design is a career that has proven to be profitable and popular. Some professionals claim that experience outweighs education in this field, while others believe any degree can contribute significantly towards success – even outside graphic design alone.

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Shillington

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Hell yes you are! At Shillington, our goal is to prepare our students for the real working life of a designer. From day one, our students are immersed in design and everything that comes with it. In essence, our students are immediately acquainted with the rigour, pace and changeability of working life as a designer.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

© Justin Schmalholz/The VMAs/Stein Design At MTV's Video Music Awards 2023, every pop star wanted their performance to stand out. In our exclusive interview, production designer Matt Steinbrenner and lighting designer Tom Sutherland explain how they kept everyone happy. What will 2023 be remembered for?

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 20, 2020

“ Serious Playfulness” is a conversation among six emerging architecture firms in cities around the world that was conducted by Toronto’s Partisans, in collaboration with Artifizi , the design platform founded by Sebastián López Cardozo. A model of a concert centre designed for Kaunas, Lithuania.

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Moo

APRIL 26, 2024

He helps clients see around corners through his advisory services, intelligence products, and events. Getting ahead of the game Running an event the size and scale of the TBD conferences takes a hell of a lot of work. Paul teamed up with MOO to bring his vision to life, designing branded Notebooks. The pens look fantastic!

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Shillington

JUNE 14, 2020

As a freelance photographer, Shillington London graduate Annie Oswald wanted to add another string to her creative bow—and she quickly realised that was graphic design. We caught up with Annie to chat about her whirlwind with Ben & Jerry’s, the joys of working in-house for a company and how she combines her photography and design.

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