Journal

Another year down. Pine celebrates its seventh year of existing.

'Sustainability’, as a buzzword is now a given for all organisations. It’s finally become something that we expect from our lives and the organisations that we follow, buy from, and do business with.

Another year down. Pine celebrates its seventh year of existing.

Six. Whole. Years. It’s been a bit of a wild ride so far. I’ve run Pine Design Studio since 2015. It’s been through a few iterations. At times it’s been a lot of fun. And other times it’s looked like it was failing. But I think I’ve finally cracked it!

To compliment my wide range of branding service offerings, I'm now providing social media strategy and content creation to clients. Stay relevant and grow your social media presence organically.

What a rough year or so it's been for events. Who knew that something as enjoyable as charity sports events, live music and get-togethers would be hit so hard over the past year or so?

Somehow, I've made it through my fifth year as a freelance graphic designer running my own small business.

Somehow, I've made it through my fifth year as a freelance graphic designer running my own small business.

The internet uses A LOT of energy. It's something that most people, (including myself until recently) don't consider. This high energy usage therefore creates carbon emissions, which lead to the speed up of climate change.

We're still in 'lockdown' conditions here in the UK. In my previous post I mentioned that I'd re-kindled (pun intended) my love for woodwork by making climbing training products for the UK climbing community.

Who would have seen this coming? I'm writing this after 47 days of lockdown in the UK (not that I'm counting). I know that there are much bigger issues at this time but I thought I'd share my experiences as a self-employed person during these troubling times.

It’s been 4 years since I stopped working for a design agency and started working for myself as a freelance designer. It was one of the biggest decisions that I’ve made in terms of my working life, but strangely at the time it didn’t seem too daunting.

Education. It’s such an important part of anyone’s development through life. Designing for this sector helps to project this importance out to the world. To tell the stories of how education impacts the lives of both children and adults.

Thinking of refreshing your website or creating a completely new website? Navigating the world of website building is often very complicated. There are generally two avenues to choose between.

It seems simple, right? But as a business owner, it’s so hard to enforce this rule on yourself when you’re putting together the marketing materials for your product or service. Don’t worry, I find it hard too!

Reviewing the very first Creative North. A conference for creative copywriters, content producers and designers.

A few quick tips on choosing the right expert for your next branding project.

Here's my review of 'Company Of One by Paul Jarvis. A must read for any solo business owner!

Recently, I shifted my business ethics to only work with clients who I believe are doing good things in this world. In this blog article I wanted to talk about what my personal ethics and environmental views are, and how they run through to my business.

If there’s one thing that I’ve learnt from my 10 years in the design industry it’s that no project is the same.

In my previous blog article I outlined Pine’s new direction: Graphic design for good causes. But what constitutes as a good cause?

I’ve been running Pine as a design practice since 2015. That’s pretty much 4 years I’ve got under my belt. And previous to those 4 years I did a further 5 years in agencies, in-house and as a freelancer. So I’ve kind of covered most of the bases as a designer.