BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.com Our Hire A Designer series continues with Melissa Gerber, a Freelance Graphic Designer with an extensive background in packaging design. She is an accomplished Art Director and Designer, experienced in publishing, packaging, editorial, and branding design. You can read her full profile here. Melissa wrote a very comprehensive article on the Top 10 things to look for when hiring a Graphic Designer for A Packa... Read Full Story

BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.com Our Hire A Designer series continues with Jonathan C. Smith, Senior Industrial Designer and Chief Editor at Design Exposed. Jonathan holds multiple patents for his work in industrial design and have experiences in both the corporate and consultancy environment.   Jonathan wrote a very comprehensive article on the Top 10 things to look for when hiring an Industrial Designer. You can read the full ar... Read Full Story

BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.com Image From The Design Portfolio of Amanda Reid Our Hire A Designer series continues with Amanda L. Reid, President & Principal Designer at MANDARINASTUDIO. Amanda has nearly a decade of experience in various levels of interior design services for commercial and residential projects. Prior to starting MANDARINASTUDIO, she served for 8 years as Project Designer at a boutique architecture + interior design firm ... Read Full Story

BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.com Image Credit:  From The Design Portfolio of Ana Gomez As we depend on the web more and more to sell our product or service, it's important that we take the things that have worked for us offline and implement them online . When selling was done on the streets with a briefcase or vacuum cleaner in hand, it took years of trial and error to figure out what worked and what didn't. Now that the process ha... Read Full Story

BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.comI've decided do a series of video reviews of design portfolios from the Styleapple Network.  There is no science to who I'll select for review, simply that the designer's internal portfolio (on Styleapple)  and external portfolio (Own website) is built with the potential client in mind.  Meaning that the design portfolio is an effective marketing tool, keeping the visitor engaged from the minute the... Read Full Story

BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.comThe September issue of The Styleapple Juggernaut is now available, Here is an excerpt: It's Fashion week in New York City. A time for the fashion industry to enjoy all the fruits produced from fashion designers who have worked around the clock to create collections they hope will invite rave reviews from critics and spectators alike.  For that reason We've dedicated this issue to all of our fashion designers... Read Full Story

BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.com Illustration by Camille Wilkinson The Article and Illustration by Camille Wilkinson details the complexities of a young fashion designer's journey to becoming a success in the fashion design industry. Camille Wilkinson is a 25 year design industry veteran, currently freelancing in consultancy capacity in various phases of design and production. She welcomes direct enquiry via: cmllx@aol.comWoe to the struggling d... Read Full Story

BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.com Today as I was driving home and I heard a song on the radio. And just when I thought that I had heard every record Jay Z will make, and signed him off as a rapper that had had his moment, he came out with a collaboration with Kanye West and Rihanna called "Run This Town". A song and video that pulled me right back to bobbing my head to the music and feeling like Jay Z just got his swagger back. As desi... Read Full Story

BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.com Designers and Artists are always the target of clients, or potential clients, asking "Can you do this for free? " I'm sure doing this project will get you "Exposed". Even I ask designers to create a designer profile on Styleapple... so they can increase their..... "Exposure". But how do you know when to say "yes" and when to say "NO... I would like to get paid for this project?" Well, the truth is, this... Read Full Story

BRANDED DESIGNERS - Creative Marketing Techniques For Designers | Styleapple.comImage Credit:  From The Design Portfolio of Camille Wilkinson I know as a design professional, finding the right designer to do a specific job can be time consuming and somewhat difficult, much less trying to find one when you're outside the design industry and not familiar with design at all. I've created the "Hire A Designer" series to help clients find the right designer by giving them some valuable tips... Read Full Story