BEYOND Design: 20% Is Design — Here’s the Rest

About BEYOND Design: 20% Is Design — Here’s the Rest

Design is only part of the job. BEYOND Design is about everything that comes with it. Hosted by designer and Kunshuis founder Nelett Loubser, this is a podcast for designers, freelancers and service-based creatives navigating the real business and life behind creative work. We talk about pricing, clients, briefs, boundaries, confidence, money, creativity, burnout, changing careers, running a business and staying human while doing it. Drawing on more than 20 years in the design industry, Nelett shares the lessons, mistakes, conversations and practical things creative people are often expected to figure out on their own. Sometimes it’s business. Sometimes it’s life. Usually, it’s both. Because being good at the creative work is one thing. Building a creative career and life that actually works for you is the part we need to talk about.

Publisher

Nelett Loubser - Creative Entrepreneur Since 2010 - Designer, Creative Business & Mindset Mentor

Category

arts · business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Aug 2025

Latest episode

5 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

28 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Aug 2026

   How to Price Freelance Design Work — Without Undercharging

   Send us Fan Mail If the money conversation makes your stomach drop, this one's for you. After 25 years as a designer, I'm sharing exactly how I price my work — not by the hour, but by the value it creates — and the brave questions to ask before you ever say a number. Here's what we get into: Why you're not bad at money — you're just scared of the conversationThe phone call that told me I was "hurting the industry" by charging too littleWhy having a baby made me switch from hourly to project-b...

2. 

   22 Jul 2026

   Designer Burnout: I Didn't Leave Design, I Left What It Cost Me

   Send us Fan Mail I've been in design for more than twenty years, and for most of them I genuinely believed the chaos was just the job. The 4pm "can you quickly change this," the laptop that came on holiday "just in case," the edits I once did on the side of a road while my family waited in the car. It felt normal. Until Covid stopped the world and my body finally exhaled — and I had to ask why it took a global crisis to give me permission to breathe. This episode is the honest version of why ...

3. 

   25 Jun 2026

   Freelance Designer Loneliness: Why Community Beats Another Course

   Send us Fan Mail Nobody talks about the real loneliness of freelancing. Not the Pinterest version — laptop, coffee, living the dream. The real version. Where you read the same client email five times and wonder if you're being difficult, or if you should just drop your price because shame, you need the work. In this episode, I want to talk about something most designers carry quietly: the weight of doing everything alone. The pricing decisions, the client conversations, the small wins nobody ...

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