The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- On the topic of freelance pricing: Things I hate: Cost-Plus Pricing
Let’s be honest, everyone likes this model. It’s easy to calculate (though amazingly, most people use a function of value in calculating even this).
They say something like, “Well, it’s going to take 10 hours, at $150/hour, so that’s going to cost us $1500. And assuming we can get away with a 20% margin, that means we’ll charge $1800.”
- How to Create Stained Glass Art in Photoshop
Using Adobe Photoshop as her tool, Sara Forlenza has created stained glass art worthy of any church.Tags: Photoshop
- 8 Coming Soon Templates That Will Spark Interest
Not ready to launch your site? Look professional with any of these 8 Coming Soon Templates That Will Spark Interest!
- 8 Coming Soon Templates That Will Spark Interest
Not ready to launch your site? Look professional with any of these 8 Coming Soon Templates That Will Spark Interest!
- 11 Top Freelancers Answer: Starting Out, I Wish I Would Have Known…
I’ve rounded up a few of the top freelancers out there and had them answer the question “What do you wish you would have known starting out as a freelancer?”. Needless to say, this article is full of over 2 thousand words of wisdom.
- Why You’ll Lose Friends When You Become an Art Director
Everyone who wins the lottery all give others the same advice; the first thing you should do is change your phone number because every relative and long lost friend will suddenly pop out of nowhere to ask you for money. The same can be said of attaining a position of power.
Once you become an art director or creative director, you will hear from every friend and acquaintance, wanting something from you—usually against your better judgement. If you decide to hire people based on friendship, rather than talent, you have soiled yourself as a professional, and sometimes worse!
- Marc Andreessen’s classic post: The ONLY thing that matters for new startups
And so you start to wonder — what correlates the most to success — team, product, or market? Or, more bluntly, what causes success? And, for those of us who are students of startup failure — what’s most dangerous: a bad team, a weak product, or a poor market?
Tags: startup
- How to Have Android Notify You Only of Certain Emails