The honest designer diaries
Designer, brand strategist and mentor with 30+ years in the industry. Sharing the honest side of a long design career, lessons learned the hard way, and the thinking behind The Honest Designer Diaries. Grab a brew and have a read.
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Going freelance before you feel ready with Rachel Cartledge | EP 002
In this episode of The Honest Designer Diaries, I’m chatting to Rachel Cartlidge, a freelance graphic designer and illustrator based in Edinburgh.
Rachel left university thinking she had her next step sorted. She had a junior designer role...
Would he have asked the men to wrap the present?
I’ve watched Liz speak a few times now, and she sounds exactly like herself on stage. She doesn’t suddenly adopt that strange soundbite conference voice where every sentence sounds as though it has been rehearsed in front of a mirror for si...
The reality of selling to big retailers as a small business with Nikki McWilliams
There are certain names you can mention in business where you barely need to finish the sentence before people assume you’re doing extremely well.
Selfridges is one of them. Fortnum & Mason is definitely another.
You say your products hav...
What happens when your dream career isn't right for you? | EP007
Every week I come away from recording these podcast episodes thinking, “I could have chatted to them for another two hours.”
This week was one of those.
Aseil Amgheib from Design Wolf came on the podcast and we started off talking about a...
Why going freelance doesn’t mean working alone
I have a system for networking events. I arrive, locate the person I already know, talk to two new people so I can tell myself it was worth leaving the house, then quietly disappear once my social battery starts flashing red. I don’t need t...
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