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Dan Cash

@dancashdesign

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Designer | Typography Nerd | Dad Jokes
Located in Lake Placid, New York in the Adirondack Mountains
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It’s time. I’m so proud to announce that Over That Horizon, featuring @kay_onward will make its theatrical premiere at @adirondackfilm ‘s 25th Lake Placid Film Festival. This 10 minute short is presented by @nrsweb and received support from @5pointfilm , receiving official selection at the following festivals: imageOut: The Rochester LGBTQ+ Film Festival @imageoutroc for virtual screening until 10/18 for the Rochester, NY region. Lake Placid Film Festival at the Palace Theater on 11/6 Equinox Documentary Film Festival in Montpelier, VT on 11/26 Lookout Wild Film Festival @lookoutwildff from 1/14-1/17/27 Nature Without Borders International Film Festival on 6/19/27 If you see Kay on the Moose this weekend, give her a massive high five for all the hard work that went into this project. Big big thanks to @dancashdesign for the sick poster design, and @doranvisual for the color grade (and everything else.)
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It is hard to believe it’s October and also officially our 16th live session! We are excited today to welcome our friend and talented designer, Dan Cash of @dancashdesign and @dackersupplyco! Here are some take-aways - Building a business starts with local networking, building relationships, rapport, and supporting other local businesses - Most businesses would rather spend locally - Participate in your local community and build trust - If you’re experiencing communication issues, try to chat in person or on a video chat, allow the other person to be heard - Be sure that your contracts are set up to set clear expectations and boundaries surrounding your process and expectations (to protect both you and clients) - As Ted Lasso says “be curious, not judgmental” - Be sure your camera is on when you start a video chat - Self-taught designers may or may not all be Neurospicy, but our drive for curiosity and adding value and knowing how things work keeps us going. - Lifelong learning adds value to your work, whether that is learning and honing your own skills, or learning about how brewing beer works when working with a brewery - We love graphic design because there is no clean-up A huge thanks from both Jorde @besomeonedesign and Nicole @deepthoughtdesignco for all of your support! We go live again November 4th with another special guest! 12 pst | 1 mst | 2 cst | 3 est . . . . #neurospicydesigner #neurodivergent #smallbusinessowner #smallbusiness #freelance
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Tomorrow! Join the Neurospicy Designers with our guest, Dan Cash of @dancashdesign. Be sure to keep an eye on the time, because we are starting an hour later!

Dan is in the Adirondacks and also is designing some great merch. Be sure to check out that page as well @dackersupplyco. It’s been an honor to have so many talented designers join us and also become friends! See you Wednesday 10/7 1 pst | 2 mst | 3 cst | 4 est
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How should freelancers structure payment terms? Four changes to the standard 50/50. Here’s the thing underneath all four, which I didn’t spell out in the video. Payment on delivery is the exact moment you lose all your leverage. You hand over the files, and now you’re not a designer anymore, you’re a creditor. Every late-payment story you’ve ever heard starts right there. Not because the client is bad, but because the incentive to pay you quietly disappeared when they got what they wanted. So all four rules are the same move in different clothes. Non-refundable deposit, no work before payment, second payment at week three instead of week four, split payments for the ones I know. None of it is about distrust. It’s about never being owed money for work somebody already has. Get that sequencing right and you almost never have to chase anyone. #freelance #pricing #payment #designcommunity #creativeentrepreneur
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No tip today. Some of you are having a great year. Some of you haven’t had a real project in months and are quietly doing the math on how long you can keep this going. Most of us have been both, sometimes in the same quarter. This work is strange that way. We go client to client, project to project, mostly on our own. There’s no team meetings where somebody notices you’ve had a rough week. Nobody’s checking in. So consider this the check in you need and deserve. Drop a gif in the comments. That’s the whole ask. If you want tos ay more than that, I’ll be in the replies all day. Lone wolves, sure. But there are a lot of us out here doing the exact same thing at the exact same time, and that counts for something. I’m here for you. #freelance #freelancelife #designcommunity #creativecommunity #mentalhealth
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Twenty years of client work and almost none of it happened in public. Every project ends the same way: a finished case study where every decision looks inevitable. Nobody sees the eleven rounds before it, the direction that almost worked, the week you spend chasing something that turns out to be wrong. That’s the part I’ve decided to show. This is a one-person brand studio for B2B and SaaS companies. No team, no account managers, no back office. What I do have is a decade-plus of process and a stack of systems that let one person deliver what used to take five. If you’re a designer or a freelancer, you’ll see how the whole thing runs. The sprints, the tools, the pricing calls, the stuff nobody teaches you. If you’re a founder, you’ll see how brand work actually gets made. Which is useful before you hire anyone to do it. Doors are open. Come watch the work. New videos weekly. #BrandDesigner #GraphicDesigner #DesignStudio #FreelanceDesigner #BehindTheScenes
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Nobody posts when the work dries up. That’s the part that keeps it lonely. Everyone goes quiet at the exact moment they should be the loudest, because showing up feels pointless when the proposals aren’t landing. So the feed fills up with the people who are winning, and everyone who’s struggling assumes they’re the only one. You’re not. It’s most of us right now. Visibility is the one lever you fully control when nothing else is working. It won’t feel like it’s doing anything. Then three months from now someone remembers your name at the exact moment they need it. Make the thing today. Not because you feel like it. Because the people who keep showing up in the quiet stretch are the ones still standing when it turns. #CreativeEntrepreneur #Freelancers #DesignCommunity #SmallBusiness #SelfEmployed
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This week Intuit and Meta both laid off massive amounts of their workforce.

This means that the job market is about to be flooded with some pretty experienced talent. Most of them have been heads-down at the same company for five, ten, fifteen years. They’ve shipped real work. They’ve built real systems. But they haven’t had to compete for attention in a long time. They’re about to. If you’re a designer right now, this is the moment your portfolio either separates you from the crowd or… it doesn’t. And the way you separate isn’t by posting another carousel about how the industry is changing. It’s not another thread about how to find work. It’s not another long-form essay about AI and the future of design. It’s by making something. Pick a movie you loved from the 90s or early 2000s. Find a business in it. Brand it. Build the identity system. Design the website. Pretend the brief is real. Then put it out. The work you make this week, in the next forty-eight hours, on a Saturday morning when nobody told you to, is the work that proves you can do the work. Talking about design isn’t design. #designjobs #creativecareer #designcommunity #branddesigner #graphicdesign
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AI isn’t taking your career. Inaction is. Get up. Make something today. Then make something tomorrow. The designers, illustrators, and letterers who keep showing up are the ones still standing five years from now. Your craft compounds when you practice it. It atrophies when you don’t. Stop scrolling. Go create. #designerlife #creativecareer #branddesigner #illustrators #handlettering
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Something I’ve been sitting with after almost two decades of doing this work: The projects that brought me the most clients started as personal projects. Not pitches. Not proposals. Just things I wanted to make. This week I started making things for myself again. #branddesigner #illustrator #creativeprocess #personalwork #designerlife
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WEEKLY BOLT ⚡️🏹 Episode 119 || Creative South 2026 Recap Had an amazing time this year at Creative South! Huge shoutout to everyone I got to spend time with, I genuinely enjoyed the time I got with anyone! You’re all amazing people!! I’ve got a million thoughts floating around in my head about my experience and I’m sure I’ll continue sharing more about this year’s CS in the near future, but just wanted to share this small recap for now! I could talk for hours (and already have 😂) about the week, but for now, it all boils down to spending quality time with quality people! Already looking forward to next year and you should check it out too!! 👉 @creativesouthga And while you’re at it, go check out all the talented folks tagged who are doing awesome things!! Ran out of tags, so here’s the list of those people behind the stickers continued! @kelseykaycreativeco @vliethuiscreative @snapkat77 @brianwhite.design @dandylyondesign @naomi_loves_2_draw @clarkorr @britt.reagan @ashleyallegrettiart @deadtooth.art @heydustinlee #lightningandarrows #weeklybolt #CreativeSouth #conference ColumbusGA
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Creative South stickers part 2/3!
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