Designed Academy

How to survive huge, overwhelming projects with tight deadlines.

I was making $8/hour as a graphic designer.

Constructive criticism is a critical part of successful design.

The only way to make design clients happy.

The worst highway construction zone I’ve ever encountered, how I almost broke the steering wheel off my car, and why the watching”How the…

Or, compounding interest on business relationships.

I love judging books by their covers.

Three reasons why you should apply for a lot of jobs — and how to survive all those applications.

It’s a sudden-death game.

If you’re applying for your first design job, whether you’re coming out of school or transitioning careers, you have some hurdles to cross…

I wrote last week about what your resume should look like if you’re trying to get your first graphic design job.

As we all know, applying for a new job has many mundane, requisite tasks. You need to write a cover letter, find references, scour the…

I’m kind of a weird person.

Dreaming gives me hope.

I struggled for years to get creative freedom in my design projects. Now, clients almost never ask for design changes.