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Awesomeness goes to 11 on the new iMac, along with the ability to toggle the Reality Distortion Field

The Best Monitor for Graphic Design

By Douglas Bonneville on October 20, 2009

Apple just released the all-new iMac 27-inch today, along with a 21.5-inch. The 24-inch model has been retired. The new iMac monitor is crazy good for graphic designers for several reasons:

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4 things a freelance graphic designer must do every day

By Douglas Bonneville on October 11, 2009

There are 4 vital ways every freelance graphic designer must divide up their day if they want to continue to develop as an artist and stay ahead of the competition, be it agencies, design firms, or even other freelance designers. Let’s start with the first 3 you might already be able to guess:

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Top 10 Freelance Graphic Designers: A (small) Milestone

By Douglas Bonneville on September 28, 2009

Today for the first time, by following all the rules and working hard, and also by having a bit of luck owning an old domain  (9 years) that has always been about freelance graphic design, we cracked the Google top 10 for the following searches simultaneously: “freelance graphic design” “freelance graphic designer” “freelance graphic designers” [...]

Posted in Freelance Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blogs, WordPress Blogging | Tagged Freelance Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blogs, SEO, wordpress | 12 Responses

Logo design process revealed in 23 steps

Logo design process revealed in 23 steps

By Douglas Bonneville on September 10, 2009

Learn how the creative brainstorming process works and how the logo design process flows along all the way to the final vector art. Understanding what a graphic designer does when designing a logo mark is valuable because it helps clients understand just how tactile a process it is. We’ll show you how we do it [...]

Posted in Corporate Identity Package, Freelance Graphic Design, Logo Design | Tagged brainstorming, Corporate Identity, Drawing, Freelance Graphic Design, logo design process | 25 Responses

Hourly rate or by-the-project pros and cons for graphic design fees

By Douglas Bonneville on September 3, 2009

This is a great topic we’ll revisit in one way or another many times. For now, I’m going to list out some pros and cons in the form of bullets for each type of payment. There is no right or wrong answer here, but rather we have pros and cons based on situations. Pros for [...]

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