Design Festival Podcast #13: David Airey on Freelancing

And bam, episode 13! This week I had the honor of catching up with logo and identity designer David Airey to discuss his career and thoughts on freelancing, pro bono work, and identity design.

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• Design Festival Podcast #13: David Airey on Freelancing (MP3, 43:59, 42.2 MB)

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Episode Summary

Presenters

• Simon Pascal Klein (@klepas)
• Guest: David Airey (@davidairey)

Content Rundown

• Intro: David and his career
• Career paths, freelancing, and finding your niche through specialization
• Finding, approaching, and securing new clients
• Performing pro bono publico work and its benefits
• Becoming an author, self-publishing and going through publishers
• Pre-fetching data to improve responsiveness — inspiration from the Flash days?
• Doing it all again — things we’d do differently
• Opening your own studio?
• Tips for aspiring designers: do it because you love it and do it with humility — mottos to live by
• Show close

Links

• davidairey.com
• logodesignlove.com
• identitydesigned.com

Music

The intro and outro music this week is by Reznor again, with Track 12 from Ghosts, the fantastic Creative Commons-licensed instrumental 36-track album by Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails).

Audio Transcript

We’re a tad behind on the transcripts. They’ll be updated soon and added soon!