Filip Coertjens

Clients hiring freelancers don’t have the time to coordinate a team of specialists to get a single project done. They want the cross-disciplinary range and trusted expertise of a full-service agency, but they want it from a single person.

Victor Papanek, who attempted to gift us spines in Design for the Real World, referred to designers as gatekeepers. He reminded us of our power, our agency, and our responsibility. He reminded us that labor without…

…d of funding. We are slouching towards market share. We are slouching towards entrepreneurship. And ultimately, we are slouching towards irrelevance. If we are lucky. Because the longer we stick around, the more we’re leaving for the next generation…