by rubyandsass | Mar 11, 2016 | Business, Drool Worthy Brands, Tips/How To's
This week, I was honored to write a guest post over about branding a food business over at The Ingredients of Business. Head on over to Caroline’s blog to get the low down on all things DONUTS (If you’re not hungry now, you will be after reading. Sorry,...
by rubyandsass | Feb 18, 2016 | Business, Personal, Tips/How To's
7 months ago I left my day job. It wasn’t really planned and not quite expected either. My husband and I had just bought a house, I’d been working to build Ruby and Sass enough that I could run it full time but I didn’t know I was really there yet. I remember that day...
by rubyandsass | Jan 28, 2016 | Business, Freebies, Tips/How To's
Much to my (and probably the rest of my fellow creatives’) dismay, tax time is fast approaching! Insert the eye-rolling and groans here. I’ll wait. In an effort to make lemonade out of life’s lemons, last year I created this checklist and it really...
by rubyandsass | Jan 7, 2016 | Business, Tips/How To's
Yesterday, I was in the middle of designing a Facebook cover photo for a client and I googled the dimensions just to make sure they hadn’t changed (you know how Facebook is always keeping you one your toes…usually to everyone’s dismay). I stumbled...
by rubyandsass | Dec 16, 2015 | Business, Tips/How To's
I’ve talked about the importance of buying your own fonts here and here and recently, I was giving a someone the advice to go for a more unique (and most likely) paid font over the popular free Lobster font she’d been using. She responded back to me that...
by rubyandsass | Nov 19, 2015 | Business, Tips/How To's
As any designer will tell you, we’ve all had those clients who just doesn’t give much creative direction. Their favorite phrases might include, “I’ll know it when I see it” or “Just take that and run with it.” It may be...