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 external monitor to [...]
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 a pack of my [...]
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 other design [...]
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 Graphic Designer, UX [...]
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 InDesign. Enjoy! Click here [...]
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 about who you know,” [...]
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, but ah well. Here are [...]
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 in a very real sense [...]
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 series ̛I’m doing on [...]
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. When you work a [...]