Website V3.1 Coming Soon

Updates to my Portfolio site are coming soon, and I have a new url: lakiarosscreative.com.

Free font for Halloween

Skull Font from Skull-a-day.
Saw it first on BoingBoing.

Other great fonts for Halloween include: Artistamp Medium, ReneLouis, Blood, Dead Ringer, Nosferatu, Scurlock, Vitriol, Mother Goose, Hellfire, Zombique, Spike Regular, Ogilvie, Cenobyte, Claw, A Lolita Scorned, Rothenburg Decorative, Bleeding Cowboys, and Fashyon.

...not to mention any blackletter font.

Four Books for Designers

Are you a freelance graphic designer? You need to own these books:

- The Business Side of Creativity, Cameron S. Foote ISBN 978-0393732078

- Graphic Designer's Guide to Clients: How to Make Clients Happy and Do Great Work , Ellen Shapiro ISBN 978-1581152760

- Talent Is Not Enough: Business Secrets For Designers, Shel Perkins ISBN 978-0321278791

- The Graphic Designer's and Illustrator's Guide to Marketing and Self-Promotion, Maria Piscopo ISBN 978-1581153637

For my freelancers

You have a potential client. You send them an estimate. They cannot afford your estimate. So, you agree to adjust your price to meet their budget.

STOP!

Before you agree to a lesser price, be sure that you are not offering the same services for a smaller amount. By all means, work with your potential client to meet their budget, but pare down the services they get for the reduced price. For example, your original estimate gave the client three initial sketches and four rounds of changes. For a reduced price, maybe the client gets two initial sketches and two rounds of changes.

Changing your rates without adjusting your services does to things: 1) puts a welcome mat on your forehead 2) makes you seem disreputable to your peers.


Repeat after me: I am a professional. My time and my work have value.