So You Call Yourself A Professional Designer?

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So You Call Yourself A Professional Designer?

I can't tell you how many times over the last 20+ years I've gotten calls from someone that hired a freelance designer who, for one reason or another, did not fulfill their professional obligation and left the client in a pickle. This is such a tough call to take.

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Drooling over Draper, Don that is!

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Drooling over Draper, Don that is!

Please excuse me while I wipe the drool from my chin! I just finished reading a blog article at eyeondesign.aiga.org about Mad Med – how designers are hooked on it and how we gobble up the visual candy being served on every level from the hidden gems in the background to the opening graphics.

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Happy Holidays

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Happy Holidays

This year we managed to add an illustration of Ruff Haus mascot Pamela in the mix. It has taken us a while to illustrator her because she's all black and likes to lay around a lot... hence the pose she's in under the christmas tree.

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A Turkeyriffic Quigley Illustration

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A Turkeyriffic Quigley Illustration

We’ve been making the most of an illustration of our ca-nine to five'r, Quigley. For Halloween, we turned him into FrankenQuigley, on the 4th we turned him into QuigLincoln, and at Christmas he was Ol' Saint Quigley. This Thanksgiving he gets to be a free-range turkey!

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The Dog Days of Summer Are Here

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The Dog Days of Summer Are Here

To most of us today, the phrase dog days refers to the "sultry" (love that word) days of summer. In the Northern Hemisphere, the dog days of summer are most commonly experienced in the months of July and August. In the Southern Hemisphere, they typically occur in January and February.

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Marketing to Consumers vs. Businesses

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Marketing to Consumers vs. Businesses

Pop quiz: what makes Business-to-Business (B2B) marketing different from Business-to-Consumer (B2C) marketing? Well, a couple of important differences that come to mind are the length of the sales cycle and the complexity of the transaction.

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Once Upon A Time There Was A Sales Funnel...

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Once Upon A Time There Was A Sales Funnel...

Has the Sales Funnel changed almost beyond recognition, as technologies such as the World Wide Web, smartphones, and social media have brought about significant changes in the way marketing and sales interact with prospective customers.

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