Identity Designed #013

With this first newsletter of 2025 I thought I’d share a positive note for my fellow designers searching for new work, from a 2012 speech by Neil Gaiman (on YouTube).

“People keep working in a freelance world [.…] because their work is good, because they’re easy to get along with, and because they deliver the work on time.

“And you don’t even need all three.

“Two out of three is fine.

“People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time.

“People will forgive th...