Your rates vs. others around you

Today I was working on a proposal, and realized that the client was asking too much (hence the high quote) and thought he wouldn’t take it. I had a small urge to modify my rates. I thought I had a pretty good idea of how much the client can afford. There are...

Resources for Designers

My good friend Daniele Rossi pointed me to this amazing tool called Design Resources Search Engine. This site goes right along the line of Blue Vertigo post I made a couple of weeks ago. Browsing around this morning I found a site that goes through the foldings that...

Create Chaos 2008

So, this was the view arriving at Miami’s International Airport, just a few hours away (from a long layover) to catch the next flight to Orlando…. my final destination. After getting to Orlando at a very ungodly hour saturday night, I had to get ready for...

Update soon

This is just a quick note. Since I’m on the iPhone I can’t do the full post from here as I wanted to post back from Create Chaos Orlando. Tomorrow looks like the ISP will have the service back to normal so the post will go live. Back to life soon....

Mental Blocks and Freelancing

Picture this: A client asks you for several designs. You have a crazy week and you have lost 2 days of the 10 you needed to work and when you actually want to get things started, you just stare at the white canvas on Illustrator. That was me this week. After freaking...