27th August 2020
What is a typical day for a graphic designer? I made a note of everything I did one Thursday last month; this is a record of my day.
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- business book of the year
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- campaign
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- Carnaby Street
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- Celia Birtwell
- choosing a designer
- Christmas presents for creatives
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- Christmas procession
- cigarette packaging
- clashing colours
- CMYK
- collage
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- colour forecasting
- colour psychology
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- colouring books
- colouring books for adults
- commission
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- content
- copy editor
- copy-editing
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- cost
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- creative London
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- creativity
- crime fiction cover design
- David Hockney
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- David Pelham
- debut novel
- decision-making
- declutter
- Dennis Severs House
- design
- Design Museum
- design thinking
- designer
- designers
- digital declutter
- digital detox
- digital estate planning
- digital footprint
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- Dulux Colour of the Year
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- Ecuador
- Ecuadorian art
- editing
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- exhibition
- experienced designer
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- Fleet Street
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- font pairing
- fonts
- free tours
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- Galley Club
- GDPR
- getting it write
- good website
- Google Hangouts
- graphic design
- graphic designer
- graphic designers
- Greg Orme
- grip lit
- Guayasamín
- guided tours
- habits
- harmonious colours
- high resolution
- HMV
- Hockney
- Holland Park
- Huguenot weavers
- humanity
- humour
- identify fonts
- image consultant
- image sizes
- indent paragraphs
- InDesign
- interactivity
- interior design
- interns
- Joseph Wright of Derby
- kaftan
- landscape shape
- lantern making
- letterpress
- Liverpool
- logo design
- London
- London Book Fair
- London Lounge
- London walks
- longevity
- low resolution
- magenta
- Marilyn Messick
- Marketing
- marketing plan
- marketing tool
- markets
- Matthew Syed
- menu design
- Mersey Ferry
- Middle Earth
- Mr and Mrs Clark
- museums
- networking
- newspapers
- Nineteen Eighty Four
- Opaque Couche
- Ossie Clark
- Oswaldo Guayasamín
- packaging
- packaging design
- panorama
- Pantone
- Pantone 440
- Pantone Color of the Year
- Pantone Colour of the Year
- Pantone Peach Fuzz
- parks
- pattern
- patterns
- peach
- Penguin Books
- personal branding
- photo libraries
- photo organising
- photographic tips
- photography
- photoshop
- picture research
- pink
- pixels
- portfolio
- portrait photography
- portrait shape
- portraits
- Portugal
- poster
- posters
- preparing copy
- press release
- printer
- printing
- proofread
- proofreader
- proofreading
- publicity
- publishing
- publishing agent
- purple
- rebel ideas
- rebranding
- red
- relatability
- RGB
- RHACC
- Richard Koch
- Richmond
- Richmond Business Awards
- Romance Festival
- Rose Quartz
- sales
- samaritans
- seasonal colours
- self-publishing
- selling
- Serenity
- Sergeant Pepper
- Shoreditch
- sign design
- sixties
- smartphone photography
- Social media
- Southall
- Spineless Classics
- Spitalfields
- Squarespace
- St Bride Institute
- Stanley Spencer
- Stephanie Wilkinson
- stock photography
- stock photos
- strategy
- style
- style sheets
- styling
- Summer of Love
- Tate
- Tate Britain
- Teddington
- templates
- Thomas Gainsborough
- tips
- tours
- trends
- Twiggy
- typeface
- typefaces
- typesetting
- typography
- unusual typefaces
- vehicle livery
- versatility
- Very Peri
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- video conferencing
- visibility
- Viva Magenta
- volunteer guides
- website builder
- website design
- Whitehall Gardens
- Whittard
- word spaces
- work-life balance
- workaholic
- writing
- writing group
- Zoom
- Zoom backgrounds