Writings & Insight
Writing on graphic design, communication, process, and occasional reflections from years of professional practice.
How To Get Paid
If you’ve been working for yourself for any length of time, you’ve probably learned that getting paid is rarely about the invoice itself. Most payment problems are created much earlier than that, usually before any real work has even started. Over the years, I’ve…
There Is a Cost to Doing Business
Fellow designers! I’ve been watching the ongoing outrage about Adobe Creative Cloud pricing, and I get it. I really do. When you’re starting out or when client work slows down, that monthly subscription feels like a weight around your neck. Seventy dollars a month,…
What Desktop Publishing Taught Me About AI
I graduated from college in 1985 and went straight into graphic design, when the work was entirely physical. Paste-up was the job. You cut type with an X-Acto knife, waxed it down on boards, and hoped nothing shifted before it went to film. That was simply how design…