In my last post about Using LinkedIn to Get Design Jobs I introduced the idea of “Client Types” and that a designer’s natural aesthetic helps determine their ideal client, or the type most likely to hire them. I thought I’d pursue this idea further and invite you, the NoD readers, to submit your portfolio for review. I’ll pass your...
What is your design aesthetic? It’s hard to be objective, but important to know. It helps determine who you are likely to land as a client. And who you are likely to land as a client are your “Client Types.” So with your aesthetic in mind, what are your “Client Types”, and do you know any / have connections...
As a follow to an earlier post on Coroflot’s Design Salary Survey here is a design salary calculator published by AIGA this year. It only covers the US but is comprehensive in terms of covering fields of design as well as organization size and sector.
I will now open a can of worms. Having run a design agency in the past I’ve been guilty of doing work on spec, or work that you do in hopes that a formal — and paying — agreement will come about. There is not only the risk that your work will be used even if you have not...
NoD is proud to be a media partner of the 2009 Icograda World Design Congress to be held in Beijing at the beautiful Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). From 24-30 October 2009, some 100 speakers and thousands of delegates from around the globe will gather in a cross-disciplinary Congress,
Jeff Hamada is a self-described small Japanese artist working out of Vancouver, BC. He was recently selected as one of 100 artists to collaborate with Converse and Product(RED) to celebrate Converse’s 100th year anniversary. He currently freelances as a graphic designer, and runs the hugely popular art / design site Booooooom.com. I asked Jeff a few questions about his...
They have been doing it since 2001, and Coroflot’s Design Salary Surveys continue to illustrate why design is actually a pretty practical career choice, regardless of what Mom and Dad said. Despite our recession — or the euphemistic “super recession” I’ve read it labeled as of late (That’s just a Depression, no?) — design salaries are growing, as are...
If you like street art then the Wooster Collective is so deep in examples of outsider art that you are sure to find work that will make you want to go on a stickering or stenciling mission in your home town. I’ve been a fan ever since I found an original Adam Neate painting on the street in SOHO...
Adam Neate, self-portrait Q: When I presented Marc Schiller of the Wooster Collective with your painting he immediately knew that it was your work. After visiting your Web site it became clear you’re a prolific and talented artist. What motivates you to create art and, even more intriguing, give it away by placing it on the street for people...
Allow me to be the last to tell you that these videos produced by Cool Hunting are addictive and short jolts of creative inspiration that will keep you coming back. I subscribe through iTunes so they are fed to my iPhone and when the need arises, the next thing you know I’m watching a new interview with Alberto Allessi...
