I'm a Professional Designer, Welcome To My Cardboard Box

This writer’s on the road today, having stopped somewhere in a town called Metropolis, Illinois on the Kentucky border, which, yes, has “the world’s only 16 foot statue of Superman” downtown (and that’s about it), so we’ll keep this one short. “Designers Are Poor” is a great read in Icon magazine about a problem likely most of us face: a sufficient lack of money. It’s true, a lot of designers, largely freelance ones, lead frustrating existences dealing with difficult clients who offer up “maybe we’ll pay, maybe we won’t” contracts and then usually take their time in paying out.