Business of design
Can you mandate designers are COVID vaccinated? And what is the best way to achieve a safe workplace without disruption?
Clients like to work with designers interested in their business, their goals and their activities. Show that’s you by sharing information to make your client’s life easier.
Many creative businesses are moving to the theatre model. Instead of employing, they hire on a project-by-project basis. I think many are missing the main point of the model…
We build websites using similar templates, then choose the same words to describe what we do. No wonder we end up looking the same.
COVID presents us with the perfect opportunity to review and revise our operations by developing a Balanced Scorecard.
Most designers choose a creative career because they’re good at and like creating imagery. Problem is to promote our work we must write.
I won’t admit to being the messiah but we can help every design business with the Design Business Model Canvas.
The creative industry is led mainly by market forces. At its most basic it’s a simple transaction: we trade creativity for money. At least that’s how it is meant to work.
A community of knowledge is a group of people sharing what they know. As the creative industry fractures, they are proving more and more valuable.
Right now, nearly half Australia’s population in lockdown. Again.
We’ve put our head up to peer into the future. Here’s what we think…
The creative industry I joined is not the creative industry I’m part of now and that’s OK. It’s changed and I’ve changed. It’s been a career of life-long learning, both in hard and soft skills.
We have made ourselves so accessible to clients — they can call/text/email/slack to contact us anywhere, anytime. It’s hard to manage.