Archive for March, 2008

Mar

31

Growing Your Freelance Business with Criticism

By jimdiggitydog

One of the worst parts of the job could really be one of the best tools you can have.
Client criticism and comments.
In the world of design, it’s really easy to become sort of insular and only see what YOU think is good design. Just because it’s something you dig, and something that other designers will [...]

Mar

28

Groovy New Look Coming at You…

By jimdiggitydog

Well, I suppose it’s finally time that I got off my duff and made a new, custom site, being that I am a designer and all.
New AllAboutFreelance look coming at you - and totally smoothed out by April 1.
Stay tuned!

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Mar

28

Old School Logo Goodness…

By jimdiggitydog

All right, so they’re not all gems, but there’s some really, really good stuff here. Plus, you gotta know these were done without the aid of machines other than a piece of Letraset, a Rapidograph and some good old india ink…
Fun stuff from the 70’s!

Check out the whole 121 page collection here.

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Mar

10

Stupid Font Tricks

By jimdiggitydog

I’ve spent too much time (not billable hours, mind you) trying to find a slightly weird font that I’ve used in some job. It’s not a typical font - and it’s not a typical foundry.
It’s something specialized that I can’t remember. And, to top it all off, I’ve converted the font to outlines to make [...]

Mar

7

Moving Day…

By jimdiggitydog

Well - we’re moving the whole office, and I’ve come to realize a couple of things:
1. I have a lot of stuff.
2. I wish I had less stuff.
So, to that end, I’ve gotten rid of a lot of things I don’t need in the office. Old papers, useless books and instruction manuals. Old documentation from [...]