Franz Jeitz, owner of Fudge Graphics, (an awesome source of freebies such as photoshop brushes, textures and vectors) was kind enough to assist us with out first ever investigation on how to break into a freelance design career. Franz is originally from Luxembourg, Europe, is 23 years old and  just graduated with a masters in physics. He has been living in london for  the past 4 years and has a great passion for live music and plays the guitar himself. On top of his Design career and a masters degree in physics he also played in a band in Luxembourg which is how he first got in contact with design (doing cd artwork, t-shirt graphics and myspace design). In a very short time Franz has built quite a name for himself within the design community and we thought he would be the perfect person to provide some tips for fellow designers. Read more »

Steven Snell is a web designer and blogger from New Jersey. He designs and blogs at Vandelay Design and he also runs another design blog, DesignM.ag. Steven has also done a lot of freelance writing for a number of blogs including Smashing Magazine, PSDTUTS, Web Designer Depot, Freelance Switch, Six Revisions, Noupe and others. Read more »