1. 40 Amazing Minimalist Website Designs For Your Inspiration
Minimalism is beautiful. It truly is. The best part about minimalism in web design is that it comes in many styles, colors and sizes, but they always have the same goal in mind – saying the most while saying the least.
2. Expanding Your Design Empire: 7 Other Careers that Benefit from Design Knowledge
Web design is a field that, while saturated, is very likely to keep expanding in the years to come. More businesses are moving online, more major companies and brands are embracing the internet as a business tool, and far more individuals are adapting their one-person businesses to incorporate the internet into their strategy.
3. 20 Ways to Streamline Your Web Business
If I told you that there are twenty different ways you can streamline your web design business, make more money and work less, would you believe me? What if I showed you – would you believe me then? In this article, you will find twenty different ways you can streamline your web business. Some of which will cover work aspects while others will cover administrative tasks, but all in all, the end goal is the same: making more money and working less.
4. 10 Tips to Avoid a Creative Block
Creative Blocks are quite common in the industry that we work in especially amongst very busy designers. I can say that it is truly one of the most depressing feelings you can experience as a designer. The usual reason for obtaining such a evil thing is when a designer starts comparing his/her work against someone better than him/her. There are multiple reasons that a creative block can occur, but that is solely the main cause.
5. Seven Tips to Keep Your Clients Coming Back for More
In any business, existing customers are always more profitable than new ones. The same is true for freelancers. If you want to pump up your income, you’ll find it easier to get more business from your existing clients first, rather than looking for new clients. So, you should constantly be working to turn existing clients into repeat clients.
6. Finding and Working With the Right Designer
In the next few sections I will try to shed some light on what a designer is, how we work, and what makes us tick. I’ll also give you some tips on how to find the right designer for your project, and how to best communicate with them.
7. What’s In Your Design Toolbox? Part 4: Jeff Finley
This is part 4 of the Design Toolbox Series where I interview top designers about what tools they use to help them create their art. This series was largely inspired by Grace Smith’s “Show Me Your Dock Series.” It’s my hope that you can gain insight into what other designer’s are using, and hopefully find some new apps/tools to check out.
About Jeff Finley
Jeff Finley is an artist, designer, and creative entrepreneur. He is part owner of the creative agency Go Media and lives in Cleveland, OH with his wife Kim and their bunny Cocoa. He plays drums in Parachute Journalists with Adam Wagner, also of Go Media. He’s also founder of the art, film, and music festival Weapons of Mass Creation Fest taking place in Cleveland this year on May 22 and 23.
8. 21 Wacky Icon Sets You Have to Have
We love icons don’t we? In that case I am presenting 20 Wacky Icon Sets You Have to Have. They are absolutely free if you promise to use them, I’m kidding. The icons were produced by Iconschock and they are for personal and commercial use. Let’s not wait around to long and get you some free icons.
9. 100 Fantastic Design Blogs (and their logos)
Design Blogs with their branding logos. They are shown in alphabetical order (well, mine’s at the top) together with a few words about the nature of the Blog. The blogs are primarily Graphic Design sites, with a few WordPress, Web Design and Inspiration sites thrown-in for a great mix—enjoy!
10. 50 Inspiring Logos you Have to See
Logos are seen everywhere. Every business or company has a logo, even if its just a font or a dot. It’s still their logo that you know them by. I came across some awesome logos that I found inspiring on Behance and thought I would share it with our readers so they can be inspired to.
