Gearing up again

Gearing up again

I have had the best of both worlds for the last year or so. I have been working temporarily, full-time, covering a mat leave in a job I absolutely love. The work has been suitably challenging and rewarding and the working environment (despite two significant...
Having cake and eating it too

Having cake and eating it too

A constant tension exists for new entrepreneurs between the exciting and challenging prospect of successfully running one’s own business and the draw of the familiarity of a regular paying job and the perks that go with it. In our case, we enjoyed a relatively...
Ch-ch-ch-changes

Ch-ch-ch-changes

  There is nothing permanent except change. Heraclitus At Daily Designz we comment a great deal about handling change and keeping up with the pace of everything. This is a recurring theme in the design business and the change comes fast and furious on a daily...
Therapeutic Gongs Aside

Therapeutic Gongs Aside

  When I worked in the creative department at the newspaper, I was fascinated by some of the dynamics that would come into play. Certain sales reps and managers would gravitate to one designer versus the other. Some of these dynamics would be informed by...
Learning to Juggle

Learning to Juggle

I spent years juggling assignments while working at a daily newspaper and meeting multiple deadlines in a day, in a week and in a month. While many of those assignments couldn’t be delegated to others on the pre-press team, some of them could. If the timing was...