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You can be busy and still feel stuck. That is the uncomfortable truth most designers avoid. In this episode, I break down what actually makes a designer fully booked and why so many talented freelance designers stay busy but unstable. We talk about the difference between random d ...  Show more

Your portfolio can be beautiful and still fail to convert. I see this all the time with talented designers who are doing great work but attracting the wrong clients or no clients at all. In this episode, I walk through why most design portfolios do not work, what clients are actu ...  Show more

Too many Graphic Designers forget one brutal truth. Design is NOT for you, your portfolio, or even your client. It’s for their audience. Period. The client pays the bill, sure. But they’re not the one your work is for. And every time you forget that, your design gets weaker. L ...

The most common misconception of being a graphic designer?
To “make things look good.”

That mindset is exactly why clients are moving on. Fast.

AI can make things look good, faster, and cheaper. And customers are quickly flocking to a "Good enough" me ...

Fiverr just fired 30% of its staff and announced it’s becoming an “AI-first company.” On paper, it sounds innovative. In reality, it’s poetic justice. The platform that devalued design and turned creativity into a $5 commodity just found a faster, cheaper replacement of its ow ...

Most graphic designers think their biggest threat is AI, bad clients, or lack of exposure. But the real problem? They don’t think like designers at all.

Instead, they’re still stuck in the artist mindset—chasing aesthetics, taking feedback personally, and wondering wh ...