Ollie Hirst

Illustrator

6 articles · Feb 2025Mar 2026


Quotes

  • Spec work is key to positioning yourself and not waiting for permission to make the work you want to make.
  • Spec work is key to positioning yourself and not waiting for permission to make the work you want to make.
  • It's absolutely not dead! That's just what big tech wants you to believe.
  • This isn't enough time to establish yourself fully. Freelancing is always the tough route, but as this person says, the freedom and potential payoff are huge.
  • It's the place I go to identify the person at an organisation who has commissioning power, and I can target them directly.
  • If you find an aspect of yourself to infuse into your work, that's consistently going to be something you can own, despite how advanced a technology becomes.
  • I really believe that it's maybe not as much of a threat as the doomsday-style conversations make it out to be.

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