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10 Essential Guidelines for Freelance Collaboration
by laura on January 19, 2012
Freelance collaboration is on the rise. Increasingly, teams of freelancers are now doing the work that in-house departments used to do. Graphic designers are now working on teams with writers and programmers.
But many freelancers are used to working alone. Collaboration definitely requires freelancers to make a few adjustments.
In this post, I’ll provide ten essential guidelines to help you put the pieces together for freelance collaboration. If you enjoy this post, you may also enjoy reading 15 Questions to Ask Before Collaborating.
30 Fantastic Transparent Business cards
by Brant Wilson on November 10, 2011
In this roundup we have compiled some awesome and fantastic transparent business cards for inspiration. If you like these transparent business cards you might also want to check out our previous posts below.
26 Polished White Letterpress Business Card Designs
Showcase of Double-Sided Business Cards
26 Polished White Letterpress Business Card Designs
by Jake Rocheleau on July 10, 2011
Marketing is a huge part of building any company. And with proper marketing comes human networking which often involves the exchange of business cards. These bits of paper often contain information about your website, phone number, e-mail address, and location of your company headquarters.
With letterpress style business cards the type of relief printing uses a printing press accessible to a type-high bed. This allows for movable type and imagery which can be transposed over the card stock. Raised surface ink is pressed into the sheet of paper which allows for same-color stock to contain unique messages. Check out the fantastic gallery below and feel free to share your thoughts within the comments section below!
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MOJO-Themes.com Version 2.0 plus Anniversary Bundle!
by Brady Nord on April 17, 2011
A New Era at MOJO-Themes
In case you have not been formerly introduced the MOJO-Themes, now is the time. MOJO-Themes is a buy and sell marketplace for premium themes and templates.
We spent the last year building a solid product that has proven to provide quality themes and templates on the most popular CMS platforms. We have some of the most talented people who sell WordPress themes, sell HTML templates, and sell Tumblr themes. Seeing that we have an amazing community, we felt we had the responsibility for setting the standard for marketplaces on the web. It was necessary to step up and continue evolving and improving upon was has already been built.
Announcing the MOJO-Themes Cyber Bundle
by Brady Nord on November 29, 2010
MOJO-Themes is a growing buy and sell marketplace for a variety of blogging and design platforms such as WordPress. New themes and templates are added daily and users are able to find themes based on theme style, cost, number of sales, and upload date.
Over the past year MOJO Themes has proven to continue to grow and keep building upon their thriving community of premium design products. In celebration of their successful year in business, MOJO-Themes is announcing their first annual MOJO-Themes Cyber Bundle packed full of the marketplaces top selling items such as premium WordPress themes. This is a package that is sure to make anyone salivate.
Creative Reviews Don’t Have to be Torture
by Lorraine Sneed on November 22, 2010
If you’re a creative pro, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a photo, logo, layout, or video, someone’s got to review and approve your work. I’ve never met anyone who thought this process was fun, and it can be a huge hassle, especially if you have a big team of reviewers spread all over the globe.
If you want to stay in business, you must learn to streamline your review process and make the client happy with as few cycles and missed changes as possible. I’ve heard of people still using paper and faxes and all manner of markable materials to try to collect organized input. Then, of course you get the reviewers who disagree with each other, but don’t know it because they can’t see each other’s comments. There’s no getting around it — you can only try to maximize your time on creative and try to spend less in review.
Is this familiar? When you send out review, you:
- Save your work as a separate, non-native file
- Send the file to your list of reviewers
- Go to the gym
- Get coffee
- Sleep on it
- Awake to an inbox with as many replies as you have reviewers
- Sort through the comments, crossing fingers there are no conflicts
- Resolve conflicts
- Get back to creating
Sucks, right? Picture this:
- In your working file, choose Create New Review and give it a name
- Invite all your reviewers to comment online
- Skip the gym
- Get coffee
- Hop back into your artwork and find opinions already there
- Respond immediately for all to see (avoid conflicts!)
- Get back to creating