Category: Blog

When is a client bad for your health? Find out how I navigated losing a sometimes-difficult client that started to have a negative impact on my health and how I now feel the better for it.

Back in 2019 I wrote a blog encouraging all of us to keep our Christmas lights on for all round cheer. Three years on, how things have changed.

In my latest blog I discuss the benefits of why you should Spring Clean Your Branding to ensure it resonates with your customers. With Spring in the air, now is a good time to make sure your brand is on-point!

Well, they are not to be confused as ‘one and the same’. A logo is a visual element, symbol, trademark or icon bearing the company name but even if you consider that yours is eye-catching and well designed, by placing it on every piece of company collateral does not a brand make.

Are you ‘young’ enough to remember the 80’s? Love a bit of Disco? Longing to be out dancing again? If you actually remember flailing about on a dusty dance floor to ‘Oops upside your head’ while trying not to choke on your disco whistle, then these are the Greeting Cards for you!

Sharing expertise can be hugely beneficial in business. As a home worker, I have to problem solve on a daily basis, alone, with only my books and the internet for reference. If there’s a gap in my knowledge as to how to do something it can be a great frustration and a drain on my time too, so I am always open to learning from others and sharing knowledge.

Graphic design is my business but my first love has always been art. For some time, I had wanted to see the Chapel at Vence where Matisse had designed magnificent stained glass windows in his final years. Everyone knows about Picasso as a painter, but I was not acquainted with his printmaking or ceramics.

We all like to make a statement. You should consider the styling of your branding as carefully as you style yourself. Make sure your logo and branding remains a classic..simple, classy and made to measure.

February caught me unaware again. It’s such a short month that it’s easy to miscalculate your working schedule and I realised I’d given myself two less days than I anticipated to hit a design deadline. ‘Time out’ is so vital to your well being and creativity, so, tempting as it is to ‘power through’, remind yourself to take ten minutes in the sunshine or book that well earned massage.

January’s a month of evaluation, realignment, reassessment, a month to reaffirm and reflect. With the dawn of the new year comes new resolve…to land that big corporate client, improve your skills and break through that financial glass ceiling. It doesn’t always pan out that way though.