Freelancing

Steve Douglas on August 8th, 2009

One of the cooler features on being on Twitter (follow us here) is that you’ll bump into like-minded people that you otherwise might not have had the opportunity. Such was the case with my running into Jeremy Tuber (follow him here), an Arizona-based graphic designer who runs the very-appropriately named website, Being a Starving Artist [...]

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For graphic designers, the internet is awash in free information. Some of it good. Some of it, well, not so good. Some information is so valuable, that it’s worth plonking down your hard earned cash for. Take this example. Seems there’s this book out for freelance designers. Called Freelance Dream, it’s available here. Visually, the [...]

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If you’re involved in the online graphic design community, you couldn’t help stumble over the fracas that occurred over the weekend when a young designer – we’ll call him Jon – told us how he was being harassed, sued and billed $18K for “stealing his own work” by stock agency Stock Art (StockArt.com) and their [...]

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