“In reality, high quality work begets high quality work, and low quality work begets low quality work.” - Web Designer Depot.

For every reason it might be easy to settle for sub-par work on a web design project, Web Designer Depot gives us even better reasons why you shouldn’t in this recent article. They include:

• Work Begets Work.
• You’ll Improve by Pushing Yourself.
• You’ll Gain the Right Kind of Respect.
• You Won’t Kill Your Business.

Even better, if you’re afraid you might be guilty of settling, this article details exactly how to get past it, and work toward better quality design. It’s great advice to keep in the back of your mind at all times; make it a personal goal to never have to feel this way!

So few people in the creative design industry understand mood and timbre. A brochure, a video, a website, even a billboard ought to have atmosphere. It ought to pull the audience into its world. It ought to feel real. Really real. It’s something all of us should work on harder.

“No caffeine for the last ten years. I only have two speeds, and the third speed, on caffeine, is not a pretty one.”

Click here to read the entire interview by Scott Scheper.

Turn to any prominent blog online today and you’re likely to get lots of encapsulated nuggets of knowledge. Top 10 lists of what you “ought” to be doing. Lazily cast off quotes about how the “right way” to do things.

Good writers persuade, they use turns of phrase. Better writers build cases for their arguments, and discredit the opposition. In the face of smart, savvy, educated writing, the people who are adrift and looking for answers are prone to grab onto the life raft thrown them by the grounded, benevolent writers. But lets consider:

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“For all of the thrills that must come with growing a large business, I have to say that small ones are closest to my heart. Typically I find the people within them closer to the action, and that’s almost always more fun than being around middle managers who seem more interested in office hockey pools. I like it when the dream is alive, and the people in the room are engrossed in the work at hand. That’s where the magic is, and I feel like these are my people.” -Eric Karjaluoto From the ever growing ebook Speak Human.

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