Podcasts – The Deep End Design
Summary: If you are a graphic designer, web designer or a visual designer of any kind, this is the podcast for you. Each episode tackles a different graphic design related topic, from finding better clients to online portfolios to making sure you get paid. We also offer tips and tricks in our "Do Yourself a Favor" segment and advice when we answer a listener question. The Deeply Graphic Design-Cast is hosted by three successful, working designers with a wealth of real world experience to draw upon, so listen close! You're bound to learn something in each and every episode. Email listener questions to questions@thedeependdesign.com. Yours may be answered in a future episode!
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- Artist: graphic designers Wes McDowell, Mikelle Morrison & Nick Longo
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If you design and develop websites for clients, it only makes sense to offer SEO (search engine optimization) services as well. In this, our last segment in the “Growing your design business” series, we sit down with outreach consultant Kai Davis and talk about the benefits of offering SEO to your clients. More specifically, we […]
If any part of your design business involves print, then it might be beneficial for you to have a go-to printer for your clients. In this episode, the gang chats with Jerrold Omens and Nicole Nicolette from Tri City Printing about how to find, and work with a trusted print partner. We discuss the pros […]
It’s that holly-jolly time of year again to drink eggnog, wear festive sweaters and make out our wish lists. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa or Festivus, any of the gifts we cover here will make the inner designer in you very happy. The gang each covers what they are wishing for this year, and […]
One of the biggest assets for your design business, (no matter what your medium,) is a talented copywriter. Whether you work primarily in web or print, a good copywriter can add the kinds of marketing messages to your client work that will contribute a LOT to their bottom line, making YOU look like a rockstar. […]
Rolling right along in our mini-series on growing your design business, the gang has a candid discussion about the often challenging topic of finding and managing web developers. Just like in any profession, there are varying degrees of quality when looking for web developers, so you’ll want to do everything you can to find one […]
Welcome to the first episode in our series-within-a-series we like to call “Growing Your Design Business.” In this and future episodes, we will focus on growing your network of talent, allowing your design business to flourish and go places you never knew possible. In this episode, we focus on the process of finding and managing […]
Passion projects! You may have a design business, or be trying to start one. Or maybe you are knee deep in advertising design at your firm, or sketching icons for your companies next big operating system. But all work and no play makes Jill/Jack a dull girl/boy! Creative people need to create — it’s likely […]
Its time for another listener question show! Thanks to Nick Longo, our resident design professor, we have a whole crop of questions submitted by design students. So if you’re in school, listen up. And if you’re not, don’t worry, the questions are still very applicable to designers at any level. As always, send in your […]
Something any creative person understands is the need for, and the constant struggle with, striking a balance between your work and your life. History is replete with creative types that worked their magic like none before them, but burned out from a lack of balance. But just how is it done? How do you keep […]
In the 68th episode of the DesignCast, Wes McDowell, Mikelle Morrison, and Nick Longo take us through their individual creative processes! Everybody has their own approach to creative endeavors — and this is never more true than when it comes to graphic design work, since the creative process is long and winding. Not only […]
Join the DesignCast crew as Wes McDowell, Mikelle Morrison, and Nick Longo dip into the headlines of their lives! Once in a while we like to dip into our personal experiences, peeling back the curtain and talking about events that have affected us in recent months – customer issues, invoicing problems, and the general craziness […]
Bill Gardner, founder of LogoLounge, returns to the DesignCast to talk with Wes McDowell and Nick Longo about logo design trends in 2014. LogoLounge is the best place to find logo reference materials on the web with a huge database of expertly crafted logos (200,000 and counting). Bill Gardner has been collecting and examining trends […]
While there are many different types of graphic and web design gigs out there, they generally fall into two separate categories: freelancing on your own, or going to work for a company. We’ve all done both, and know that each scenario comes with its own set of pros and pitfalls. In this episode, the gang […]
Social media is here to stay, fellow designers. While the platforms may change and shift over time, twitter, facebook, linkedin, instagram and pinterest remain solid ways of connecting with clients, as well as other creatives. In this episode, we have special guest Chuck Anderson, from No Pattern talking with us about all things social media. […]
No designer is an island. To one degree or another, we all rely on a network of others to keep our business afloat. Maybe you subcontract out some work that you can’t handle on your own. Maybe you have created valuable relationships with print vendors, hosting providers, etc. And lets not forget how valuable networking […]
