$4,000 blog anniversary prize draw

To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of my graphic design blog, I’m launching this bumper giveaway to thank you all. You’ve helped make this site what it is today and here are the fantastic prizes up for grabs.

To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of my graphic design blog, I’m launching this bumper giveaway to thank you all. You’ve helped make this site what it is today and here are the fantastic prizes up for grabs.

Brian Gardner recently asked me, and some design friends, five questions related to design and blogs. Here’s the short Q and A session.

Having started my blog last October, it won’t be long before the one year anniversary. To celebrate, I’m running a graphic design / marketing / branding / SEO / blogging prize giveaway, with the aim of thanking each and every one of you for your valued contributions, subscriptions and site visits.
I recently contacted a few niche experts, asking if they could get involved and offer a prize. The result so far has been fantastic! You really don’t want to miss out on this one, and thank you so much to everyone giving their valuable time to help.

Starting your own blog can have many consequences on your train of thought. For instance, there isn’t a day that goes by where I haven’t wondered if something will make a good blog post. There’s a whole psychology around publishing a blog, and here I highlight just a few of the thoughts that I’m prompted into thinking.
This post is in response to a couple of ‘tags’ I received lately.
Ian at Failure is tke key to success tagged me with an ‘eight random facts’ meme. Paul at Reflections tagged me with an ‘eight things you don’t know about me’ meme.
I don’t often participate in memes (says he who started The Face Behind [...]
Do you ever feel down, like you’re in the wrong profession?
I think that we all, at some point or other, wonder if we’ve made the right decisions. Human nature keeps us questioning ourselves. It’s times when we ponder moves unmade that we draw on the inspiration that keeps us on track.
There’s an interesting group project [...]

Here are some of the pencil sketches I created during my personal logo design process. This is around half the total sketches made (others were on scraps of paper that have been either lost or tossed).

There are some changes going on with my little logo blog and it’s only right to let you know (plus you can help out if you have a little time!).
My articles were previously published at davidairey.com/blog. Now they’re located in the root = davidairey.com. Here’s how, and why.
I’ve been out of blogging action these past few days but I haven’t forgotten about you. Truth is, I’ve been moving into a new Edinburgh flat with my girlfriend, Catherine. It’s the first time I’ve lived alone with a woman so it’s something different. I’ve lived with a girlfriend before, but in a flatshare, so [...]
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I’ve been freelancing for around two years now. It’s not that long, but it’s long enough to get a taste for what the pros and cons are. So, without further ado, here are some of the pros and cons of working as a freelance graphic designer.