If you are looking at improving your drawing skills as a designer or illustrator, or a student just starting out I can be available to give pointers.

Hi to all my friends, clients and associates. Happy New year when it comes. As you can see, I have updated Designtrendsonline for yet another year. This is the fifth official upgrade 3.2 and I am loving it. Most of it now is just pure experimentational as I love this sort of thing and I am thriving to keep the site fresh as I think it is good for business ... and after all, it's best I do the experimentations on my own site instead of that of my clients. To my good friend and experimental buddy partner, Neil Francis, I hope I will get a thumbs up and you will rapid weave and dream weave with me through 2008.

Well I think as graphic designers that something we face quite often. I will always try to persuade the client away from their personal (this often times have to do with their ego and to boast that they had something to do with the design project) idea, sometimes I will do what they want but also present my preferred alternative. Sometimes they will go for your idea but in the end its them that is paying the bill so you have to just shut your teeth, do what they want, collect your money for your time and move on. You can always keep the good options for your portfolio, and trash the final approval of their choice. That’s what I do most time anyway.

You sometimes will have nightmares when you go for a briefing with a client and they have been using MSWord, Powerpoint, Publisher and cutting up photographs to show you what they want. Sometimes this helps, but most times this is an indication that you are in for a treat!

Remember... they are paying the bill, just do the work and collect what is due to you.