In 2017, being creative and managing Adobe Illustrator is hardly enough to turn you into a great designer. DesignContest wants to introduce 9 must-have skills that will make you distinguished among other designers and will guarantee you a better salary and much more challenging projects.

How many of these skills do you have? Tell us in the comments below!

A good business is all about profit, money, and God knows what other benefits. However, there are cases when these advantages coincide with the way to help our environment to get much greener and far less polluted. So, here are the reasons why you should consider to run an environmentally friendly business.

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Startup businesses have spread their popularity due to being highly profitable and extremely beneficial. They have become sort of a trend that is getting more and more viral. Developing a startup and investing money into it means thinking about your own future. If your startup turns to be half as successful as you want it to be, you can consider yourself to be already a winner. Most startup projects fail within their first 5 years after being launched; those that survived become beneficial for sure.

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When a story stands behind your brand, you succeed. A story can have various implementations. The most common one is hidden behind a character design.

To create a significant character design isn’t a simple task to do. On the one hand, designers are limited only with their clients’ requirements, so they can do practically whatever they want to make their character designs great and captivating. On the other hand, designers often forget to create the character the way it would tell a story and fail in achieving the main purpose of this kind of design.

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If you have somehow faced logo designs, you know they mostly cost a fortune. Everybody understands logo designs do need to be expensive: your brand’s awareness starts with them. However, sometimes companies get lucky and receive their logo design almost for free or really for free. You’ll be amazed to find out how much some famous companies paid for their logos that are nowadays famous through all over the world.

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