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A logo is not a picture
One of the biggest misconceptions I come across is the belief that a logo has to tell the entire story of a business. I’ve seen it countless times over the course of my career. Founders and business owners asking far too much of a single logo. They want it to

So I rewrote the brief…
The client sent me a design brief that had clearly come straight out of ChatGPT. It wasn’t bad. In fact, ChatGPT had done exactly what it had been asked to do. It had taken a prompt and turned it into a polished, professional looking brief. The problem was that it wasn’t

Educating clients has won me more work than designing logos ever did
One conversation has followed me around for most of my career. It usually starts with a prospective client saying they “just need a logo.” My response tends to sound something like this: “It’s never just a logo.” And I often explain it like this, “If you’re looking for someone to spend as little