Damascity

Michael Bierut sounds off on the role of designers.

Freelance Switch posts a free hourly rate calculator for freelancers. Just what I was looking for!

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From TypeForYou

Duane King set up Thinking for a Living as a guide to new designers. The Resources section lists a bunch of recommended books and the Surfing section has a list of key sites of magazines, organization, conferences, blogs and more.

Ben Archer argues that Gill got Gills Sans all wrong. Typographi lists some alternatives to Gill Sans.

Kevin Kelly covers what he feels are the two best personal book publishing services: Blurb and Lulu.

Seth Godin on “How to live happily with a great designer.”

I just may hand this out to people I work with to clear things up from the get go.

Creative Latitude is a worldwide community that unites various creative disciplines for collective promotion, education and ethical business practice.

Check out their Resource section where they have many useful documents and tools for designers.

They also have a nice selection of Profiles.

A group of designers from around the world compete with monthly challanges at the Creative Postcard Club. I just may join.

I just found out about Squidoo today and already I’m posting my third Graphic Design Squidoo lens. This one is Graphic Designer Toolbox by J Jeffryes. It’s now time for me to step away from Squidoo.

NO!SPEC is a designer’s worker’s right movement focusing on ridding the world of spec work. Why are specs bad? Read and learn.

I’m new to the industry so I really had no idea how bad spec work really is. It has definately changed my approach to doing work for clients.