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Clients from hell: How to navigate nightmarish scenarios as a freelancer

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Image licensed via Adobe Stock The worst clients can turn your life into something out of a horror movie. We outline four common types of nightmare clients and explain how to deal with them. We're talking about those clients you simply hate working with. Clients who ended up making your professional life a nightmare.

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Meet Tüpokompanii, the type foundry redefining letterforms through 'mistakes' and tradition

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Tüpokompanii works across pretty much all things letter-based: designing and publishing retail fonts, logomark design, typeface modifications and language extension, research and consultation, Opentype feature programming, and offering custom type design services to clients such as the second-largest in Estonia, Tartu.

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Dutch design agency From Form's new identity is a cinephile's dream

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Its client list includes the likes of Ace & Tate, Skoda, Amsterdam Museum Night, and OFFF Festival. Other key reference points include printed materials from the same era, such as booklets, magazines, and manuals. Elsewhere, the monospaced fonts reference vintage typewriters.

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Squid&Pig's Street Fighter tribute is a great example of why you should make personal projects

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Their client list includes the likes of Google, YouTube, and Mattel, but for one of their latest projects, they've decided to make something just for themselves. We exaggerated the characters as much as possible, pushing the size of their heads, eyes, and arms to the limit while maintaining the original reference.

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'It's bad, it's gone quiet': how to rescue your freelancing if this is happening to you

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But how you market yourself will be the deciding factor for clients when choosing you over your competitors. What do clients consistently praise or appreciate about my work?' In other words, decide what it is that you (and only you) can offer a client. The client already likes your work: that's why they're talking to you.

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Graphic designers share their top tips for choosing the right fonts

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Referring to web projects, product designer Stan Potra suggests that: "if the font is for UI and masses of text, aim for readability and variability for hierarchy and accents. I've worked with clients who already have an established brand typeface which doesn't have the things it needs," reveals independent typographic designer Sarah Cowan.

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A new signage project from Studio n.io.s challenges the seriousness of office environments

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fuses art and design to deliver powerful projects for clients. To reference the logo in the signage, Yang wanted to strike a balance between seriousness and relaxation. As such, she expertly toyed around with line thickness and offered three distinctive visions for the client. is one of the 0.1%