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How to Start a Design Blog (and Make Money) in 2021 – Ultimate Guide

Just Creative

Looking for information on how to start a design blog and make money from it? Here is our step by step guide on the best way to start blogging (and how to make money from your blog). billion (yes, billion) websites on the internet and 500 million of those have blogs on them.

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How to use your downtime to boost your creative career

Creative Boom

We can use that time to work on our skills, start a side project, spend time with loved ones or just chill out. But honestly, how well did that go for you? And so rather than biding our time and enjoying the opportunity to do other things, we start accepting all manner of tedious or badly paid work, despite ourselves.

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Ximena Collado on how a series of failures made her a successful fashion illustrator

Creative Boom

We caught up with her to hear about how she made her first 1,000 followers and how a series of failures made her successful. In my teen years, I loved reading fashion blogs like Man Repeller and La Vida de Serendipity, and sometimes I would just draw the looks I saw there," she tells Creative Boom. "It

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Logo Rhythm: new book celebrates band logos that rocked the world

Creative Boom

Love design books? But in his spare time, he's been working on an intriguing project with design writer Jim K Davies. The lovingly produced book features over 90 design stories behind iconic band logos and includes lots of new interviews with designers and musicians from the 1960s to now. Love logos?

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A helpful guide to marketing for creative freelancers who want to quit Instagram

Creative Boom

But recent algorithm changes and a push for more video content have left many artists and designers struggling to enjoy the same likes and reach. Before we get started, we understand that many of you embrace reels and making videos and still enjoy some success on Instagram. We're all busy, so how do we even get started?

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Will Instagram's massive algorithm update help or harm creatives?

Creative Boom

Image licensed via Adobe Stock The photo and video-sharing site is changing how it surfaces content, ostensibly to help creatives. We'll start by sharing exactly what Instagram said in this blog post announcing the changes. But is this too little, too late, or even counterproductive? We canvas the creative community's views.

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How to promote and build your creative business without using social media

Creative Boom

I first joined Twitter in 2008, when I was working on a web design magazine, and the web development community had fully embraced it as their network of choice. For illustrators, graphic designers, animators and photographers, other platforms like Instagram have served a similar purpose. The brief answer is: increasingly, yes.

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