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How Is Your Music Affecting Your Productivity?
Some people can work with music, some people can’t. For the people who can, though, they’ll attest to the inspiration music brings to creativity and how some music can influence the style of work, etc. In fact, some designers (myself included) listen to certain genres of music for the pure reason that by doing so, the mood it brings about will be brought through the design. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. A big part of music is about feeling it, and sometimes if you try to force certain types of music on yourself, it ends up failing pretty epically on your end.
Finding Gigs vs. Finding Projects
The design and development community is over-saturated to say the least. We’re competing for any given client with a number of others that didn’t use to be as large some 3 or 4 years ago. Anyone who grabs a warez copy of Photoshop and Dreamweaver automatically calls themselves web designers. People constantly keep undercutting, and we’re all losing by the end of it. This isn’t a new topic by any means – we know the state of the industry we work in. We’re in it for our reasons, and we stay in it because we love what we do.
Freelancers: Do You Lead Alternate Lives?
I’ve been entertaining this idea in my mind for a little while now. Since I’ve been (poorly) attempting to manage my days with blocks of time for work, play, etc – I always find myself not being able to take a step away from work. While I love my job, it’s flexibility, and the outcome, I never find enough time to enjoy one of the main reasons I started freelancing: to spend time with my son.
How to (Properly) Transfer Over to Your New Host
I’ve been through a good deal of hosts over the last few years. Whether I’ve interacted with them directly, or heard opinions through IT departments, it’s tough to find a good place to host your files. The guys with great support often have crappy servers, and the guys with awesome servers often have crappy support. It’s sad to say, then, that I can never remember how to transfer over everything properly and always end up messing something up.
Stop Designing Logos, Start Developing Brands
Yes, I said it. We focus way too much on the quality of a logo that we never spend enough time on the brand. In an article I posted on the DesignInformer a week ago I spoke about what a brand is – something people often get confused about. But it’s too often that we take brand and logo to be one in the same. Here’s my challenge: take the logo out of the mix, and focus on developing the brand properly.
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