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Donovan Answers Some Listener/Reader Mail

April 24th, 2008 | by Donovan Beery
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Nate and I have always made it a policy to answer as much of our mail as possible (our emails are easy enough to find), but doing so on the podcast causes a delay based on recording schedules, and CJ may be on a timeline with these, so I’ll answer in a written format this time.

CJ: I’ve been listening to The Reflex Blue Show since it was the Be A Design Cast and have always enjoyed it. I am starting a research paper for class where we interview a designer, and I know Nate and yourself always have cool anecdotes. Would you mind answering four or five short questions for my paper?

DB: Of course. Although cool anecdotes at eight in the morning will be limited.

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Learned from Contracting

April 16th, 2008 | by Donovan Beery
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Doing what I refer to as contract design work at first seems to be the same as the freelance design work I spoke of last week: you do design for a client and they pay you. But you’re not actually on salary. In those respects, I understand grouping contracting and freelancing together, but other than that, contracting seems to be a whole different job, although in my case and many others, it has been done at the same time as the freelance work we all speak so highly of.

The main difference to me is that you’re either doing overflow work for a creative shop and/or ad agency, or working directly with a client on random jobs that the majority of are too small to outsource to an agency, and would be considered ideal for an in-house designer if they had one (or if it was a high enough priority). As before, these things I learned are listed in no particular order:

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Learned from Freelancing

April 9th, 2008 | by Donovan Beery
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During my first job it was encouraged that I started freelancing. After all, working on just one website all day, every day, could start to burn you out a bit – and make you start losing that creative spark that keeps you loving this sort of work. My freelancing technically ended at the same time as my fourth job. It’s at that time, just over six years ago, that I went full-time working for my own company. The work started out the same, it just wasn’t referred to as ‘freelance’ anymore.

As before, these are listed in no particular order, but since I get asked more about freelance advice than than any other in the field of design, there are ten this time:

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Voting is Sexier than Stealing Photography

March 28th, 2008 | by Donovan Beery
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Four years ago, AIGA had asked that every local chapter have a designer create a “get out the vote” poster (a tradition they will continue this year as well), and the AIGA Nebraska Board was deciding who would be a good firm or individual to choose when the worst decision possible came up… why not have a committee do it?

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New Store Item: Mountees!

March 19th, 2008 | by Donovan Beery
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Earier this year, I was at Oxide Design Co. the day they were moving to their new location, and “Superstar Designer Drew Davies” (a registered trademark of Andrew Davies) had these sweet magnetic animal heads all over his new space. I had seen them at his old spot, they have them placed on anything with metal, holding pens, memory cards, and assorted other items in their mouths, but didn’t notice the packaging he had done for them.

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