Searching for design inspiration takes a lot of time if you browse galleries because you will not find only high quality design works, but also some that are simply average, or below. Having a few sites who create articles by curating the design galleries is a must. You will save time that you can use to create that beautiful design your client wants.
Using Photoshop can sometimes seem like a necessary evil, especially when things seem to take much longer than they should. However, if something seems to take a long time, you can be pretty sure that someone has found a quick way of doing it! So we are bringing you 10 quick tips that will hopefully speed up some of those tedious Photoshop tasks. All of these tips are image-related, as working with images is not necessarily the favorite thing for designers to spend a lot of time doing. These tips should help to speed up work on images whilst retaining quality.
Working from home used to be something that only a select number of people got to do. These people were generally either entrepreneurs, had their own business, or worked for the few rare companies that actually employed people to work from their own home. Nowadays, however, working from home is much more common.
There are a number of different career opportunities available to someone who would rather spend time at home during the working hours than in the traditional workplace, and the number continues to grow! We live in an era where almost everything related to business, media, and entertainment is accomplished from a computer. This means that people are needed to work at those computers… and the thing about computers is that they allow you to work from anywhere!
Amazing and very creative advertising artworks by Patrick Ackmann from Frankfurt, Germany. Enjoy :)
Working with clients all day long may sometimes lead to stress in a freelance schedule. Long working hours, impending project deadlines, and constant criticism from clients can really bring down one’s enthusiastic spirit. Thus, building a compromise with your client is imperative to the success of any project.
As the provider, you have to be honest, sincere, and above all respectful of each of your clients’ opinions. Without their project needs, you wouldn’t be creating any work in the first place. And don’t get me wrong but a compromise doesn’t have to feel restrictive to either party.
It’s very possible that you already know 3D printing inside and out, and are just as excited as we are by the possibilities that this technology holds for our future.
But even for those in the know, it can be helpful sometimes to step back and take a snapshot of where things are at in this dynamic, exciting and rapidly changing environment.
If you have the right tech skills, you can command a great -- and maybe even a fantastic -- salary.
But it's an ever-changing target. One day a skill is hot and the next it's not.
We asked job site Indeed.com to tell us which skills will command a salary of at least $100,000 a year. And that's just salary -- a new job might also net you bonuses, stock options and the like.
Indeed is one of the biggest job search sites on the 'net with 1.5 billion job searches per month. It sifted through its massive database of job titles and descriptions and the salaries associated with them to come up with this list.
Facebook is certainly stretching its legs into the business world. Rumors of Facebook launching its own job boards later this summer, possibly in response to other professional groups’ postings, could have a huge impact on recruitment for companies. How could this vast social network of nearly one billion help or hinder searches?
Facebook’s launch might be a strategic response to the growing popularity of LinkedIn, which is prevalent among the very specific crowd of business professionals. Facebook does a great job connecting and engaging with young people and will want to find ways to expand that notion. Facebook’s rumored job boards could very well make a significant impact on how recruiters, small business owners, and employees worldwide find good fits. With its expansive network, Facebook could be primed to make a large impact on hiring and job-hunting if it manages to employ this new idea correctly.
There are so many people working freelance jobs online that it’s almost become a revolution of new media. You can graduate fresh out of high school and start working on freelance gigs almost immediately. There is plenty of money to be earned, plus you can still educate yourself along the way.
I read a very interesting article discussing how there’s no speed limit when it comes to life. We are told to stick within the system, but once you’re out it’s all up to you and your own intuition to make a living. I really like this approach and I’d like to analyze how you can apply this mentality to a freelance lifestyle. It takes true passion to stick it out, but working online provides a very comfortable life compared with other professions.
Life is short, so why waste your time on boring chores? Especially if you can pay someone else to do it.
Whether you're chained to your desk or feel too lazy to lift more than a finger, we've picked out 10 sites that do the dirty work for you.
Get ready to kiss laundry day, dog walking and more buh-bye.
So are you tired of searching for a job? Want to have a new client? Want to earn more? Do not worry, today DesignsMadnesss has bought for you some awesome Freelance Job Board, here you can show your creativity to the world.
I am sure most of the designers today work freelance, either to earn extra or have taken up freelance as to earn there freelance income. If you are also one of those then this post is for you. If you also think that having an amazing portfolio will get you contracts only, then think again; JOB BOARD dear readers can also get you contracts.
One of the most desired goals for any freelancer is to increase his business and why not, to hire people and eventually to create a strong company. When dealing with one or just a few projects, the workflow can be linear and the probability of messing things around is little.
The problem comes when your business grows and your projects and your staff are getting bigger. In that moment you need to be very careful how you organize the tasks, how your staff is working, you need to fit your deadlines, you must be able to easily see the progress of a task, have a clear document management and also you need to be able to communicate with both your team and your clients and to give them the possibility to check the progress of their order. These issues must be solved if you want your business to succeed so that’s why it’s extremely important to start using business management tools since the early days of your company.
Emeric Trahand also known as Takeshi is a New York based art director and artist from Saint Etienne, France. Emeric’s illustrative work is renowned for its surreal feel, the quality of its photomontages as well as the light treatments and colourful compositions.
You might need to live on less, at least initially, when you start-over in a new field or ramp up a small business venture. A snapshot of your income, debts, and savings will help you see where you can make some adjustments. Ask what luxuries you can do without: Restaurants? Dry cleaning? Vacations?
So are you tired of searching for a job? Want to have a new client? Want to earn more? Do not worry, today DesignsMadnesss has bought for you some awesome Freelance Job Board, here you can show your creativity to the world.
I am sure most of the designers today work freelance, either to earn extra or have taken up freelance as to earn there freelance income. If you are also one of those then this post is for you. If you also think that having an amazing portfolio will get you contracts only, then think again; JOB BOARD dear readers can also get you contracts.
Many (if not most) business meetings waste time and therefore money, according to Michael St. Lawrence, author of the best-selling book If You're Not Out Selling, You're Being Outsold.
To ensure that a business meeting is efficient and productive, he recommends that the participants agree to adhere to the following guidelines:
Be on time.
Conduct one conversation at a time; avoid "sidebar" discussions.
Respect the opinions of others.
Respond to the topic.
Be solution-minded: When you identify a problem, suggest a solution.
Don't try to "derail" the meeting.
Do not attack other participants.
Avoid introducing tangential topics.
Observe time limits and end the meeting as scheduled.
I estimate that by instituting these guidelines, you get the practical equivalent of increasing your workforce by 10%, or even more--but without increasing payroll costs.
As freelancers in creative fields we’re faced with a unique situation. That is, the combination of art (or creativity) and business. We need to use our left and right brains to the maximum, each with the same amount of effort and dedication every day.
There’s not a lot of average jobs in the world that require such attention to two seemingly opposing fields. But then again, we’re not average.
Having the ability to conceptualize a client’s vision and turn it into a well-crafted piece, you should have no problem bridging the gaps between the art and business realms of your freelancing career.
Being a freelance writer isn’t the kind of job where you wake up at 7 in the morning to go to work, knowing that you will finish at 5 in the afternoon. On the contrary, it is the kind of job where you are provoked to handle several projects at one time, respecting the deadlines that are imposed to you and knowing when to say no. There are certain qualities that a freelance writer has to have, including an increased resistance to stress, a good knowledge of the language in which he decided to write and persistence.
There are some top dogs in various industries that have incorporated social media into their business plans. Many of you may already be aware of this and interact with some of them within your online networks. However, some companies still haven’t accepted that employees are also going to use social sites while at work and have yet to create a social media policy.
If your company is on the fence about having staff update their social networks from the office, take a look at this infographic for it just might change your mind.
A study at The British Institute of Psychiatry showed that checking your email while performing another creative task decreases your IQ in the moment by 10 points. That is the equivalent of not sleeping for 36 hours. This mundane task is just one of many everyday work habits that may be standing in the way of your company’s efforts to boost productivity and increase sales.
From constantly being interrupted and switching tasks at random, to creating an impossibly long to-do list and cluttering your desk, here are seven steps to ensure that you are decreasing productivity and overall sales effectiveness on a daily basis.
