Category: Freelance diary

The end As I mentioned last week, this entry is the last I’ll be adding to this weekly freelance-work wrap-up series. The projects that I’ve been writing about over the past month-and-a-half have mostly been anonymous, as they have all been contributions to larger projects that may not be complete for some time. This makes…

The future I wrapped this post up on August 2nd. In less than 30 days, I’ll be moving across the country to Krefeld. I got a job as a teacher in the design program there, which I still can’t believe. I guess it will all settle in eventually! The school is called the Hochschule Niederrhein.…

Now is the right time to talk about “managing expectations.” I don’t mean that it is time to write about how to navigate a client’s expectations, but about the expectations that I have as the writer of these blog post entries, and that you might have as a reader. When I wrote my first entry…

I’m proud of a few things in this week’s post. For instance, I think this website’s speed problem is fixed. My laptop is out for fixing. A long-term research project I’d hoped would work out kicked off. On Thursday and Friday, I got to spend all of each morning in two different libraries. I’ve also…

This week was abbreviated: I was out-of-town through Wednesday night. On Thursday and Friday, I worked a bit slower than normal, because of all that travel. I was very chuffed by all the likes my first post last week ended up receiving on Twitter. Some of you even texted me words of encouragement, and trust…

Hey everyone. I’m not sure how many readers this is going to get, or if it needs to have any at all. But here we are. I’m been working in design since 1999; at least, that’s when my first internships and teaching assistantships were. Perhaps more importantly for this discussion: I’ve been working and paying…