As a designer, the brief can either be your friend or your enemy. Properly crafted, it will guide you through a job; thrown together, and it's just a matter of time before someone gets hurt.
Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) is crippling digital designers. But in an industry where time equals money, what can be done, and what should designers be doing to minimise the risk?
Are you making the most of your talents or could you be earning more from your creative offerings? Mark Ramshaw explains how to sell yourself more effectively, without having to sell out.
A recent monster-themed exhibition at a small gallery in Bristol proved to be a masterstroke of self-promotion for Peskimo, a talented Cheltenham-based design duo. We find out what all the growling was about.
If you made it your New Year's resolution to start up your own design concern, but are still being driven mad by a job you can't stand, now might be the time. Craig Grannell gets advice from those who have already made the leap.
Designers are uniquely positioned to help big brands make sense to the masses and, as Mark Penfold has discovered, this relationship is changing the nature of design.
Designers look at self-promotion in the same way the British do sex - no-one admits to it, but everyone knows it's going on. Daniel West puts on a dirty (Apple) mac to investigate the last taboo.
You've done all the hard work and got plenty to show for it, but what's the best way to show off your talents? talks to the masters of folio presentation about building an online gallery.