The Corpus Callosum

Here are 22 modern and professional fonts for all you typography enthusiasts. Great for creative typography projects and best of all, they’re free! See the rest of the set after the jump.


1. Philosopher

2. Molot

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Nigel Li is a video game designer by day and a t-shirt/clothing designer by night for his label Junktion Design. Much love goes out to Nigel for hooking up his latest tee design “Wisdom” which incorporates a psychedelic 3D effect when viewed with 3D glasses.

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After six months of deliberation, my sister finally decided which “mui” ambigram tattoo design to go with. She gathered her courage and was officially inked by Joey Pang at the Tattoo Temple on July 28th, 2009.

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I’ve been reading Jan Chipchase’s blog Future Perfect for quite some time now and recently came across a post very similar to one I wrote in May titled 3 golden rules for designers.

Same idea, slight variation on the details, but just as simple and eloquent. Check out Jan’s post - Good? Cheap? Fast? Pick Two

Looking for freelance creative work? Here are 6 of the best sites around:

Behance - Creative jobs & freelance opportunities from the Behance Network

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Let’s face the facts! Not all clients you work with will turn out to be open, design-minded people with unlimited budgets; some clients will cause way more stress and sleepless nights than they’re worth! If you’ve already committed to the job then you’ll just have to suck it up and maintain a high level of professionalism, but it’s best if you’re able to recognize a potentially trouble client upfront and try to avoid them altogether. How do you spot them? Here are 6 types of nightmare clients that you’re bound to encounter through your freelancing adventures:

1. The Frustrated Artist

The Frustrated Artist thinks he is creative and will attempt the initial design himself. After realizing his skills fall a bit short he will turn to you, the design professional, to salvage the project. The problem with this client is that he already has an idea of the outcome in mind and his ego won’t allow for anything else, which means very little room for creative exploration. You’ll end up doing what the client wants in order to please him, but you won’t feel satisfied with the final product as you had no control over it.

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When it comes to getting a bigger piece of the market pie most people try to outdo the competition in an attempt to gain a larger share. In the design world, this can be achieved through lowering costs, providing additional benefits, delivering work faster, or various other strategies all of which require some sort of sacrifice. So is there a better alternative?

One way to expand your business is to increase the overall size of the pie by reaching out to an untapped audience. By targeting a new audience you effectively increase your potential for growth since you’re no longer limited by your existing consumer/client circle. Better yet, if you’re an early adopter of a new target group you can grab as much of the pie as possible before your competition catches on and follows the path you’ve paved.

The beauty of this method is that you don’t even need to alter your core business model; you can get your bigger slice through savvy marketing and branding or, in some cases, by offering extended products/services as illustrated by the following two global brand examples:

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The golden rules are based on the 3 most important factors that every designer should consider when it comes to project management - the duration of a project, the costs, and the quality of work produced.

It is imperative that you manage your clients’ expectations when it comes to these crucial factors. You must explain to them that even the top designers cannot offer the best of all 3 variables; clients simply cannot have their cake and eat it too! Normally, only two of the variables can favour your clients. They need to compromise and meet you part-way since the remaining variable has to balance out the two favourable variables, as illustrated by the 3 golden rules:

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