Drip or Drown | My experience and aspirations with graphic design

Summarizing your Future

So far, you have likely put in a large amount of effort, money, and time into ensuring that this career is as successful as possible. After doing this, there are some who start to lose motivation just because their client numbers aren’t rising, and they aren’t really making an overall profit. You must take measures…

What To Do if a Client Isn’t Satisfied

Let’s say we are in a situation where you have just put 5-6 hours in a project, and you send it to your client. They express their feelings and they aren’t quite happy with how the product turned out. What would you do in this situation? Every businessman is different when a customer or client…

Different Branches of Designing

There are many career paths you can follow to become successful, and build a life of profit from graphic design, or simply just digital art in general. Everything you look at nowadays has likely gone through a long process of being designed so that it’s essentially perfect for every day use. For example, look down…

Education and How it Can Help You

Education and schooling is something that is often talked about in the design industry. There are many people who are just starting out and don’t know how to learn certain skills, or just lack the creative paths to perform well and produce good enough designs. You may be questioning, after high school, how do I…

How to Learn More Design Skills

Since you have likely already begun designing, and possibly even working with your first clients, there may be skills that are still necessary to gain the attention of better paying clients. This is because better quality products will not only assist your reputation, but also increase the probability of hooking a well paying client. If…

How Social Media Can Affect Your Business

As you can tell from the previous blog posts, I have taken a lot of time to mention proper advertising. Like stated previously, advertising is arguably the most important thing you can work on when you are trying to reach out to clients. From what I have found, social media is the best and most…

How to Work with your First Client

People are often nervous when they get an order from their first client. As a designer, you don’t know how much someone will like a product until after you have talked with them about it, and it may be difficult to understand what their opinions are until you have worked with more clients. It is…

Creating your First Advertisement

Advertisements are key when it comes to businesses like graphic design. How are people going to know what you offer if you don’t provide something that can give them details about your services? Luckily, graphic design is a fairly easy service to advertise, due to the fact that you will not need to invest in…

Starting in the Industry

Becoming a graphic designer is something that often requires a hefty investment, even when you are first starting. There are many things that are essential, but also many plug-ins and software that can make your journey much easier. Even if you do have some essential items, there is still required knowledge to have especially if…