Creative Journal
Advice on creating a design business, how to be a designer and ethical and legal issues
The Crystal Goblet: Book Review
“The type which, through any arbitrary warping of design or excess of ‘colour’, gets in the way of the mental picture to be conveyed, is bad type.” Why The Crystal Goblet and the work of Beatrice Warde is still relevant to creative practice.
Designing A Career
This article is about what it takes to be a designer. The nitty-gritty truths that I’ve learned. So much advice is fluffy. Keep applying. Create. Do good work and you’ll get results. It’s loose ends, and in practice, design is shaped by budgets, hierarchy and bias.
What I Bring to the Audience: Design, Story, and a Bit of Magic
If you're looking for a speaker who blends creative insight with lived experience, this post explains why we might be a perfect fit
11 talents that a designer brings to creativity and AI can’t
Here are eleven areas that I believe validate human interaction in design and where AI can’t compete.
Should you work with friends?
Should you work with friends? It sounds great. Working with a person you know and using your skills to help them along with a project. Many service businesses have reported that ‘a picking of brains’ has become hours of free advice that propels a business forward but would otherwise have been chargeable. This article shares a check list and advice on how to protect a friendship.
Hello Lovely podcasts
What are the essential podcasts on the Roberts Radio right now?
Design and ethics
Personal preference means that everyone can think of exploration and unethical services in a different way, perception is all. When it is right to turn away business? At what point does paying the bills become more important than ethics?
Don't give away your most valuable asset
Design created for a pitch isn’t 100% perfect, it’s completed to ‘win’ not to meet the needs of the business, product or service through the tested methods of a a good relationship, a collaborative brief, research and communication. It’s free work provided to a brief that could easily express creator bias.
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