How do I start a freelance graphic design business? My #1 rule of advice is: be smart; don't be dumb. I know I could have thought through things more clearly.

It’s a scary thing to expose your process, because in a lot of ways it changes over time as culture moves and your business evolves. However, I every time I’m read a blog on someone’s process, I’ve grown.

Once a week I aim to send out an email to help those not in the design industry navigate what they need to know to make their businesses successful. Last week I shared a little about visual hierarchy. Check it out:

To blog or not to blog? That is the question. The question for all of us business owners, that is.

Art. Design. Any creative endeavor is often more about the process than the product. The world has the pleasure of seeing the outcome, yet may not know the piece went through many venerations to get to the place that it is. 

One thing that I love about my job is the anticipation of where a project will go. Because you never know. You throw out concepts. Some stick, others don't…