Posts Tagged ‘freelance’
Green freelancing
One of the foundations I wanted to have to my freelance career on my move from working for a company was the ability to reduce the impact my business had on the environment. It’s in parts oddly turned into a bit of a battle and quest with more than one hiccup along the way. It’s also about digitising the last fragments of my life as slowly I look to having everything digitally accessible.
Wave to your clients
The word of the moment seems to be Google’s Wave. I got my invite a while ago and have been playing about with it investigating what it is and how I could use it in my life. I think I had the same initial thoughts as a lot of ‘information overload’. I couldn’t place where I’d use it and the main use by most seemed to be for a form of IM. The way it was being used actually reminded me of old guest books and shout boxes more than anything really revolutionary. Then I started thinking about how as a freelancer I could use this tool and it dawned on me how useful it could actually be.
Keeping your spark alive with personal work
This web world can be a hard one to work in, you as a designer can easily loose inspiration after the 10th blue website or 20th drop shadow rounded box and lets not get started on how demoralising the 30th gradient can be. When I started out it was all about personal projects, yes I studied software engineering and art but back then there were no web courses. The only way to learn these new languages was to work on personal projects and experiment – it was a great time when possibilities were explored and inspiration flowed.
Why do Mondays suck?
Over at Quofda (Question of the Day) each day a question is asked (clue being in the domain name there). Today’s is ‘Why do Mondays suck?’. I thought I’d take a little bit of an alternative route to answer this one as it brought to mind a few comments I’ve had in the past with regards to the fact I work freelance.
