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View the full archive of Rookie Designer - Learn Graphic Design Rookie Designer 121 - Content Strategy, Keeping your Portfolio Diverse & Dealing with Clients in Another Country In this episode we’re hitting the mailbag and covering some topics sent in by our listeners. Topics will include coming up with a strategy for delivering content that your target audience can consume and use, keeping your portfolio diverse and keeping your creativity at a high level, even when things get stagnant at your job, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Just Checking In! Hey, I know I said I wasn’t going to record anything for a few months, but a couple things came up and I couldn’t help myself. First and foremost, I have posted an Interview with the founder and CTO of YouSendIt, Ranjith Kumaran. They are doing some interesting things over there to help us designers send large [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rookie Designer 102 - When is it OK to Speak Up? We’re just getting back into the groove here after a 3 month hiatus. I’m going to try a shorter format with the podcast going forward and cut out the Keys to the Game and Rookie Mistake segments of the show to save myself some time and hopefully keep this this going for a while to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rookie Designer 103 - Deadlines and Dealing? Deadlines are something that we all must deal with and that’s not going to change anytime soon! They can be good though, for prioritization, motivation, and just plain getting stuff done. There is a conversation that should take place before the setting of these deadlines though, that can result in a smoother course of action, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rookie Designer 104 - Getting Freelance Clients to Pay Up On this podcast, inspired by an entry on our forum, we will discuss strategy for avoiding a situation where your freelance clients are paying you for completed work late. There are several methods we can use in this fight against late payments and most of them revolve around the creation and implementation of a contract agreement. Other topics covered [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rookie Designer 105 - What Are YOU Afraid Of? What fears do you have that are related to your profession, or the profession that you plan to enter? Do you face these fears or shy away, and is there a way to turn them into a productive tool for your success? We’ll discuss some examples and possibilities in this episode. Links from the show: Everything You [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rookie Designer 106 - Tax Time Again & Are You Prepared for Unemployment? Its that annoying time of the year again, when the state and fed government ask us to tidy up their tax bookkeeping. We’ll cover a few things you may be able to write off as a freelancer that you didn’t know about. Also, living in this unsure economic time can leave us with questions about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rookie Designer 107 - Design Theory and Rejuvenation Through School When you’re in design school, a lot of theories, rules and patterns are being thrown your way, and it doesn’t always make a lot of sense at the time. Is there really a point to all this reading material? Will it somehow impact your career in a meaningful way? We’ll try to make some sense [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rookie Designer 108 - Speaking at SDSU and Speaking in Public There was some good and some bad about my speaking engagement at San Diego State U, but all in all I think it was a good idea for me NOT to record it (haha). No, instead I’ll just be recounting some of the highlights of the evening, and sharing some of the questions that came from the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rookie Designer 109 - A Better Quality of Freelance Client When you start putting yourself out there and share your talents on a freelance basis, your going to come to understand what many before you have already… its HARD to find high quality clients. Its relatively easy to find clients who want you to work for next to nothing, get the work done yesterday and don’t appreciate [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rookie Designer 110 - Social Media and Business Social media is a movement that has been building for sometime and now appears at every corner, in your personal life and in business. There is no escaping the technology as it is being utilized by companies to steer marketing campaigns for everything from music to household products you use every day. The good news… [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rookie Designer 111 - Organizing Folder Madness and Flash Grows Up Will the REAL episode 111 please show yourself… sorry for the slip up to those of you who were expecting a new episode, only to find yourself listening to 110 for a second time. Here is the real deal! Social media is a movement that has been building for sometime and now appears at every corner, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rookie Designer 112 - Should You Hire a Salesman? Possibly the most difficult part of moving from the “safe confines” of a full-time job into a freelance situation is the ability to keep clients and projects coming in. The logical answer… hire someone who excels at selling to come in and do it for you. A sales person on your team would mean more [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rookie Designer 113 - What To Do With Your “Free” Time Its 12 o’clock and you break out the sack lunch, but you still feel the need to be productive with your hour away from work. Are there things you can do to further your career in design? Of course, but what can be done in an hour to bolster your skills and design savvy?! In [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rookie Designer 114 - Research and Planning More life (and career) lessons from my work experience to you! We’ll discuss the lack of research and how it can foil your designs before they even get started, and some of the important information that you definitely want to pick up before you even start a project. We will also dive into the core [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rookie Designer 115 - Internship Problems? Have you thought about an internship to finish out your educational career? Do you know some of the challenges that you might be faced with in an internship? We’ll take a look at these topics as I answer some internship questions from one of our audience members. Book Review: Building Design Strategy: Using Design to Achieve Key Business [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rookie Designer 116 - Freelance Payment Options & Intense Audience Research A question from one of our listeners sparks a conversation on accepting cash as payment for freelance work. We also take an in-depth look at research techniques for learning more about how customers/audience members use an application. Links from the show: Google Analytics In the Bullpen: Photoshop Preset Viewer Brush Pilot Try GoToMeeting for 45 days! Visit www.GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts to start your [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rookie Designer 117 - Is Part Time Freelancing a Business Again our topic comes from one of the listeners and the question is this: “Do you HAVE to own or run a business to freelance? What if you just do a few projects every now and then, as a side thing apart from your full time job?.” We’ll talk to several different subjects as related [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rookie Designer 118 - Content Management Systems In this episode I will share some of my knowledge of Content Management Systems including WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. We will focus on the definition and purpose of CMS tools, as well as how they can be very useful in helping you design for your own business as well as others. Links from the show: WordPress Joomla Drupal Dreamhost (my [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rookie Designer 119 - Voice Your Opinion This episode is a bit of a “Part 2″ to the last time I spoke about not being afraid to voice your opinions when it comes to design solutions. We will cover this again, bringing in some new factors and guidelines to make your comments as effective as possible. Links from the show: When Bad Things Happen [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website