Over the forthcoming months I will be writing some articles on key aspects of being a freelance designer. These will not be image rich or terribly exciting visually, actually they will be visually bloody dull. They are practical issues that I have personally experienced in my time as a freelancer. Therefore, what I say is based on the situations I have found myself in, methods I have adopted to deal with such situations etc.
In January we commissioned Ilya Birman, a Russian designer with passion for typography, to adapt his typography keyboard layout (which has become a common typographer's