In August 2009, Blue Turtle Graphics celebrated it’s first year in business. Looking back, I can only say that it’s been a wild ride! Over the past year, I’ve learned many important lessons about running a small business and I wanted to share a few of them with you: 1. Create partnerships and network. As […]
Ramblings/Rants
Who says a sole-proprietor can’t offer full service?
I recently stumbled across an old blog post that kind of ruffled my feathers. It was the blog of an unnamed advertising agency stating that they were “swimming in the same stream” as this “new breed” of single-owner graphic design studios. They were complaining that any agency with staff couldn’t compete against these sole-proprietorships with […]
5 Tips for print designers who want to be web designers
About a year ago, when I started my company, Blue Turtle Graphics, I decided I wanted to offer web design services for my clients in addition to logo design and print design (stationery, advertisements, brochures, etc.). The only problem was, that for the past 13 years I had been designing for print not web. At […]
Web Designer? or Web Programmer?
I stumbled across this old post in “Rants” on Bittbox the other day and thought that Jay Hilgert has some great points about the differences between web designers and web programmers. You can read his whole post here . He mentions in his article how the two are completely different animals, one requiring a design […]
