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Master Plan

11 years ago I wrote a Master Plan:
http://www.justinfox.com.au/tintin/me_plan.html

Attitude? Loads of it! The funny thing is that I still stand and live by most of the things I wrote in that plan today.

I still refuse to be a design slave. In some ways I feel like I’ve been there, done that with design and maybe commercial design work has finally killed the artist in me.

I still love meeting clients. I talk well and I know how to inspire confidence, it’s the middle part of the job that I hate the most. And usually, at the end of the job I feel used.

Lately I’ve been thinking about my future (lots). I figure that if I quit being a graphic designer my income stops. I’ve been looking for a way to create a business which lives on without me, something stable and easily sustainable, a bicycle shop perhaps, or to meet a money Buddha who will magically turn all my community projects (ie: passion projects) into money making projects.

More than ever I want to work for myself on my own projects and I'm coming to the realisation that graphic design was perhaps just a stepping stone for me. If I look back at my achievements, the marks I've made on the wall have not come from my graphic design skills but from the communities I've founded and nurtured.

INfront’s re-launch has been emotional for me and it’s...

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