Imagine hiring a gardener to clean up that mess you call a back yard. A young man arrives and you brief him on what you want.
“And if you could plant a row of dwarf camelias along that fence…”
“Sorry, I don’t do camelias.”
“What?”
“I don’t do camelias. I can plant rhodos for you. Or plum trees. but [...]

Imagine that the owner of a company – it could be any company – meets a prospective customer at the airport. After a brief discussion of what the company does, she hands over her business card, promises to send a brochure and asks the ‘potential source of income’ to check out the company website when [...]

This is a little off topic, but could be useful. (It’s also quite long, so stick to it…)
There are some occupations that require a great deal of training. Doctors, architects, engineers and space shuttle pilots come immediately to mind. You don’t want to find out, just as you’re being wheeled into the OR for vital [...]

In this economic climate of recession and retrenchment, it pays to remember one major fact;
The economic situation affects EVERYONE.
You might be hurting because you’re losing business and new business is hard to find, but you’re not alone. What’s more, if you open your eyes, you may actually be able to take advantage of this climate [...]

It generally doesn’t take long for the work-from-home creative to become disillusioned by the small space allocated for his/her workstation, the mayhem emanating from the kids when they arrive home from school or the sudden extra attention one receives from the household pets.
It’s about this time that an OFFICE FOR RENT sign appears in the [...]

As an illustrator and print graphic designer (from a time when there was no ‘web’ version of the profession), my first interest in creating web pages arose when I realized I could slice up a page-sized Photoshop image and carefully place all the slices into the cells of a table.
Alas, with dial-up internet hovering around [...]

All programs crash. Today’s applications and operating systems are considerably more stable than their counterparts of a decade ago. But they still crash. Files will also corrupt.
It’s a fact.
These applications are extremely complicated, and the files they create have so many variables that perfection is still a long way off. And it’s not always [...]

The first thing one realizes when becoming a Lone Designer is that you really are… alone. Whether you’ve come out of a corporate environment, or just graduated from college, there comes a single moment in time when you’re sat down hard on your backside and faced with the realization that…
Wow, the buck really stops with [...]

Creative Suite 4 is about to be released. But from what I’m reading of it, I think I’ll stick to CS3 for a while yet. Those lucky enough to have received early BETA releases (alas, not me) have reported a few minor improvements, as you’d expect. But with Adobe’s hefty upgrade bill, it hardly seems [...]

A little off topic, but I’m sure this might amuse a few younger designers…
As an illustrator and print graphic designer (from a time when there was no ‘web’ version of the profession), my first interest in creating web pages arose when I realized I could slice up a page-sized Photoshop image and carefully place all the slices [...]