About a month ago, I decided to purchase another external monitor so I could do my design work from home when needed. Since starting my new job in August, I’d taken my primary [...]

I recently had the privilege of chatting with Kevin over at Primoprint about doing a comparison of products from some different printing companies. Primoprint provided me with [...]

How does art differ from design? While there are many similarities between art and design (I’m talking specifically graphic design, but this applies to industrial design and [...]

Faulty Terms for Design Roles As I’ve gained experience in the design world, I’ve come to recognize some problems in our classifications of job roles. We use terms like [...]

The attached .eps file can be used for your projects that require a camo pattern. Resize the pattern as desired and drag it into your swatches panel in Illustrator or [...]

As a design student preparing to enter the real world, I think the number one thing professors and professionals told me was, “Network!” While I understand that “it’s all [...]

It’s been [over] one year since I started Red Airplane Design (it was March of 2018). This post is late in coming because it should have been a “year end review” type thing, [...]

HoursTracker is one of the most used apps on my phone. It allows me to keep track of numerous clients and jobs, keeping track of my time and how much each client owes me. [...]

We’ve all been there. The feeling that you’re not good enough, you’re not qualified enough, you don’t have the proper skills… Over the past year, this is a struggle I’ve felt [...]

Until I got my first Amazon Echo, I wouldn’t have given it a second thought. In fact, I didn’t purchase the Echo. I won it in some online drawing and, after replying to an [...]

As a designer – especially a freelancer – there are many products and softwares I use on a daily basis that I couldn’t function as well without. This post is part of a [...]

As a freelancer or business owner, setting boundaries between your work life and your home/personal life can be difficult – especially if freelancing isn’t your full-time gig. [...]

These five tenets were developed by asking myself the question, “What affects my loyalty in the marketplace?” In other words, what causes me (and others) to be loyal to a [...]

The world of design is constantly evolving as is the definition of what good design truly is. A vast majority of today’s designed content is engaged with through user [...]