2007, a year full of emotions in the professional and personal. I didn’t have much luck in the first part of the year, i lost a client that guaranteed me about 6.000US$ per month; and also one of my designers abandoned me… luckily, in the 6 remaining months i recovered my clients and even exceeded [...]
Continue reading...2 November 2007
Creativity: "… capacity to create, produce new and valuable things, it’s the capacity of a brain to get to new conclusions and solve problems in an original way." I’ve seen this topic from the point of view of a designer in thousands of blogs, but almost always they forget something, the psicological point of view. [...]
Continue reading...30 September 2007
At last, after so many controversy of plagiarism and interested members of the jury panel, the candidature of Madrid for the Olimpic Games 2016 has a winner, which is only an anecdote because it’s well know that after London 2012 the IOC wont choose another european city… the politicians have to justify expenses. In the [...]
Continue reading...16 September 2007
Another case of plagiarism I think we can officially say the whole contest is a fake Designed by Luis Coderque, this logo was already created for the brand Madrid. The worst in all this is this designer works for Saffron, the company judging the contest. A couple of days ago, i wrote a post about [...]
Continue reading...15 September 2007
The olympic candidature of Madrid 2016 is looking, by popular voting, the three better proposals. After the first look, it seemed to me that the candidates fulfiled aesthetically, ones with more success than others … the problem rose at the time to analyse the reasons that this designers adduced to justify his proposals. Except for [...]
Continue reading...2 September 2007
Lately we have been discovering a lot of websites that steal designs from SOSFactory, they are mainly websites dedicated to porn or warez, and as they are illegal activities it looks like it’ll be hard to make them remove our designs. In this post we’ll try to make stealing difficult for bad boys. But don’t [...]
Continue reading...5 July 2007
After writing the article about disadvantages of the freelance worker there was people that commented about my pessimistic vision of the situation, and i repeat, this work is for rebel people, nonconformist, ambitious… it has many inconvinients but also many advantages. I wouldn’t change it for any other life style. Now we are going to [...]
Continue reading...4 July 2007
I’m starting to get bored of all those blogs that talk about how good is to work as a freelance designer. It looks like it’s normal to get a salary of 6 numbers, work 4hs a day, and having mega clients that ask for jobs anybody would do even for free. It’s obvious that the [...]
Continue reading...17 June 2007
This might be the most important post i have written until now. Assuming you meet the minimum requirements to be able to work as a freelance designer via internet: you must know english, have a Paypal account, a quality online portfolio… What can we do to get a job? As i said many times the [...]
Continue reading...12 June 2007
Time to take care of those legal issues that worry us, i will show the model of a confidentiality contract (plus many other things) for freelance designers. The second one is a contract exclusive for author rights or copyright. You can use them as templates; you can always add or take the clauses you need [...]
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