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50 Blog Post Ideas for Freelance Designers …
Let’s face it … coming up with new content for your design blog day after day can sometimes feel utterly impossible, especially when your creative brain is being pulled in over a thousand different directions as it is. Then when it comes down to some time for you to work on your business needs (yes, blog posts included if you’ve added that to your action plan) you’re tired and feel like you do not own one ounce of creativity left.
But wait! Don’t give up yet! That would be too easy. We’ve touched base on this topic before. In one of my previous blog posts, 50 Blog Post Ideas, we went through some “general” ideas on keeping your blog going – or perhaps if you were thinking about getting one started – with a good list of topics and even on some expanded specifics like “What Inspires You to Keep Going?”. But today we are going to touch on something a little bit different. A little more niche base. Today’s blog post idea list is built for designers.
Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud. ~ Andrew Sullivan, Blogger
This list contains 50 blog post for all you freelance designers out there. Now yes, it’s only a sample list because as we know, there are SO MANY topics we could embellish on in this field. But you will go through these ideas in no time and this list will provide you with the inspiration you were looking for in order to come up with new ideas or maybe even break some of these up into a series (best way to get more posts and keep the followers coming back for more). And you know me … always wanting thing in an organized fashion (LoL)! So, to make things even better with this list, I’ve categorized them base upon talking points.
Now, let’s get started!
Branding
- What (and How) to Name Your Business
- What Does “Branding” Even Mean?
- Why Branding is So Important
- Why Your Photos are Just as Important as Your Design
- Your Brand is More Than Just Your Logo
- Questions to Ask Yourself Before Choosing Your Final Design
- How to Find Your Signature Brand Style
- 25 Signs It’s Time for a Re-Brand
- How to create a Style Guide for Your Brand
- Why You Should Invest in a Newsletter Design
- Should You Hire a One-Stop-Shop Designer?
- Is Investing in Design Worth It? Here are 50 Reason Why It Is.
- The #1 Quality You Should Look for in a Designer
Logo Design
- 20 Reasons Why You Should Invest in a Professional Logo Design
- Endless Reasons Why You Shouldn’t DIY Your Logo
- 10 Logo Design Trends to Avoid This Year
- What Makes a Good Logo
- 10 Factors That Make the “Perfect” Logo
Website Design
- The Difference Between a Designer and a Developer
- 50 Ways a Professional Website Will Grow Your Business
- The First 10 Things Your Visitors Want to See When They Land on Your Website
- 10 Main Features Your Website’s Homepage Should Have
- 10 Reasons Why You Should Invest in a New Website
- How to Build a Website When You’re Not Tech Savvy
- The Ins and Outs of Google Analytics
- The Anatomy of a “Perfect” Sales Page
- Top 5 Design Features Your Blog Should Have
- 7 Things I Need From You Before I Can Design Your Website
- Why I Design Websites on < insert platform >
- My Top 10 Favourite < insert web design platform > plug-ins
- The Only Website Plug-ins You Will Ever Need
- Why Your Website Copy is Important
- How to Write Amazing Website Copy
- Website Copy 101
Creativity Hacks
- The Ultimate List of Design Hacks
- The Ultimate Breakdown of File Types
- What Keeps Your Creativity Alive
- Creative and Inspiring Quotes Related to Your Industry
- 25 Colour Palettes You Can Steal
- What is a “Moodboard”
- 25 Moodboards You Can Steal
- 25 Sources for High Quality Photos
The Design Process
- 10 Questions to Ask Your Designer During Your Consult Call
- How Design Revisions Work (graphic and/ or web)
- 7 Tips for Providing Your Designer with Helpful Feedback
- How to Give Feedback to Your Designer in an Organized/Effective Way
- Why Design Project Deadlines are So Dang Important
- How to Use a Project Management Tool with Your Designer
- 10 Great Ways We Can Work Together
- 5 Things You Can Do When You’re Designer Just Doesn’t Understand
Now of course the numbering conventions I’ve added to some of these are just examples. If you want to write about 100 reasons why it’s time for a rebrand (because you know you’ll find them with one of your client’s old, ratty outdated designs) then go right ahead. The world is your oyster!
If you feel this list has inspired you but you don’t yet have a blog but want to get started, why not pop on over and read one of my more recent posts on how to write your first blog post. Yes, it’s a bit lengthy but when discussing an important topic such as this I felt it was hard to pull away from every single detail I felt you needed to know about before you got started. Or, if you already have a design blog going … I would LOVE TO READ it so please do send me an email with your subscription link or drop your blog link into the comments so that everyone can benefit!
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Crystal Kordalchuk
Crystal is an artist, a writer, an organizer, a dreamer, a doer, and down-right proud of it NERD!.
Struck with a love for #AllThings creative at a very young age, Crystal dreamed of a life fueled by her passion for creating and bringing the stories and images in her mind into reality.
As she worked toward her dreams, she earned a diploma as a Computer Applications Specialist then another in Graphic Design and from there began to develop her extensive background in multimedia and the arts. She began her worked in the magazine industry as a layout designer and had a succession of design jobs thereafter. It was her role as a graphic/web designer that gave her the first real glimpse of her future. Soon she began a side job as a freelance designer while keeping one foot in the corporate world. A spark was lit! She turned her freelance gig into a full-time business combining design work with her other passion: creating organization from virtual chaos.
Crystal is one of the most organized individuals on the planet. She is by all means a Zen master of her crafts. She excels at helping others become “untangled” and provides her clients with tools to run their businesses smoothly while she takes care of the details behind the scenes. Thus Virtually Untangled was born. A successful business where her work as a top notch creative in graphic and web — with a twist of virtual assistant — married into one amazing place where clients can come with their virtual messes and become magically untangled. Crystal can always make sense of even the most unorganized chaos and offers a virtual detox of order and peace, so her clients can get busy doing the work that they love the most.
