Alexander Clark
Designer, Integrated Designer
In their own words
Since I've not heard from you, I'll be pausing this and moving forward with other projects. Please let me know when you'd like to proceed or if you've changed priorities.
Since I've not heard from you, I'll be pausing this and moving forward with other projects. Please let me know when you'd like to proceed or if you've changed priorities.
If a client tries to sneakily expand scope on a new project before beginning, I'd calmly explain that, yes, I can do that, but the budget has to adapt to meet those expectations.
If a brand can be live within a week and I'm still credited, that's better than it sitting in my folio.
Creating brands entirely with AI feels like a recipe for disaster in terms of IP and originality.
Without feedback, you can drift into something that just looks nice rather than something that works.
Articles & interviews4
- Client Ghosting Is Rising, and It’s Not Your Fault
Creative Boom's Dear Boom column argues that client ghosting has become a systemic issue for creatives in 2026, driven by budget uncertainty, communication avoidance and overwhelmed business owners. Contributors recommend not taking silence personally, setting proposal-response deadlines, sending a clear final follow-up and maintaining a healthy pipeline of work.
- Creative Industry Ghosting Is Rising—and It’s Not Your Fault
Creative Boom examines the growing incidence of client, recruiter and collaborator ghosting in the creative industry through testimonies from designers, directors and freelancers. The article attributes the problem to budget uncertainty, AI-related spending concerns, avoidance of difficult conversations and business overwhelm, while encouraging creatives to establish boundaries, send clear follow-ups and avoid interpreting silence as a reflection of their work.
- What makes a freelancer indispensable? The answer might not be what you think