Your questions answered #3
Here I answer another round of your questions, focusing on my decision to specialise in logo design, what to name your freelance design studio, and career advice for recent graphic design graduates.
- Who, what, where, when
- View my design portfolio
- Visit Logo Design Love
- Read my book
- Advertising
- Branding
- Creative resources
- Designers & clients
- Graphic design
- Identity design
- Marketing mix
- Photography
- Portfolio works
- Poster design
- Print management
- Splash of colour
- Stationery design
- The art scene
- The blog world
- Type and typography
- Web development
- Writing and such
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Your questions answered #2
Questions answered in this post include: Do you still figure out your prices approximately by the hour? If graphic design wasn’t your career, what do you think you would have been doing? Aside from word of mouth, what would you say is the best way to find new work when starting out alone?
Your questions answered
A while back, I asked you if there was anything you wanted to know about me, my job, my surroundings etc. I’ve picked out a number of your questions and answered them in this post.
Personal photography – India
As promised, here are a few select photographs I took whilst on my recent holiday in India.
India is a fascinating country, and the people were very friendly. I’d love to return in the future to see more and meet some fellow blog authors.
WARNING: Google’s Gmail security failure leaves my business sabotaged
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What would you do if a criminal stole something very personal, and very valuable from you? What if they were able to target your business and criple your income? You wouldn’t be too happy now, would you?
What if you also discovered that this was happening because of a Google security infection that can affect every Gmail user on the planet?
That’s what has just happened to me, and here I’m going to tell you my story. I will detail everything I know about the web pirates who are threatening my livelihood, and tell you what you need to know in order to avoid the same thing happening to you.
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David Airey.com hacked
As many of you know, I left for vacation last month. In hindsight, I should’ve kept this information private.
On the day I left, a hacker logged into my webhost support site and asked for the details to transfer the www.davidairey.com domain.
Closed for breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Image courtesy of unresttwothree
As you read this, I’m on the beach.
No, not the local Portobello beach, but rather on the glorious beaches of India’s west coast. I thought it was time I sampled a little change of culture, having not been to India before.
I left my laptop behind, and am refraining from computer use whilst [...]
I’m having a break
Starting next week, I’m going to have a break for a month. A break from blogging, and a break from work. I’m fortunate to be able to do so, and it’s one of the reasons why I moved into self-employment in the first place. Therefore, you’ll not be receiving your regular updates again until around [...]
Graphic design prize draw winners
It’s finally arrived, the month of my one year blog birthday, and in celebration, I’ve given away some fantastic prizes, kindly donated by a host of excellent blog authors.
The winners listed were drawn by Jamie, of Edinburgh computer servicesTerinea, using a random number generator. Thanks for your help, Jamie.
Here are the lucky winners.
What’s on your to-do list?
Not a day goes by when I don’t think to myself, “I’ll have to do that at some point.” Little things that aren’t exactly vital, but can be important nonetheless, such as:
Making the most of Facebook’s networking
Figuring out if I’m making any beginner SEO mistakes with WordPress
Submitting my best blog posts to article submission sites, [...]