While, as a freelancer, you absolutely must focus on your business and develop killer business skills, you also need to guard and…
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The 4 Seasons of Creativity
Productivity is a popular and expansive topic, and it’s also big business. From apps and books on the subject to courses and…
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A Key to Productivity: Do the Right Things
There is a phrase: ex nihilo nihil fit. It roughly translates from the Latin as from nothing, nothing comes. Generally, this is a…
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Making the Invisible Visible
There are things we encounter that awake something in us and inspire us: an experience, a revelation, a new insight or piece…
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The Burning Heart: How To Stay Inspired
There 's a book in my library titled, 101 Things to Learn in Art School by Kit White. It's full of truths…
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Skills You’re Not Taught In Design School
It is said that when you come to the end of your rope, you should tie a knot and hang on. My…
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A Bit About Ropes
We talk about creativity and innovation in terms of thinking outside the box. Thinking outside the box still needs to remain within the…
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Acknowledge the Box
Design your time. Time is wasted when we do the wrong thing at the wrong time. It's easier to keep your time boundaries and your well-being intact if you plan ahead.
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Green Scheduling: 6 Tips for Sustaining Your Creative Time
If we approach a design solution as an opportunity for self-expression, we'll miss the point and risk not solving the problem.
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Why Design Is Not Self-Expression
Where an artist can begin with a blank canvas and pursue a serendipitous route to an end result, a designer begins with a set of criterion and remains within set boundaries from concept through completion.
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Drawing The Line Between Art and Design
Creative thinking requires us to cease from thinking as we always have. This is neither automatic nor easy because we automatically default to doing that which requires the least amount of effort.
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Creativity and Change
I am currently in the concept stages of a logo development project. I always begin in my sketchbook, doodling forms and symbols,…
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Sketchy Memories
Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance, form without relevant content, or content without meaningful…
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Advice For Clients: A Designer’s Value
My friend, Mary, was in a community theatre production of The Mikado, and was asked to write her bio for the printed program. This being…
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Being Remarkable
The computer is a tool. Use a pencil instead and you’re still a designer. Having a computer, even if it’s a Macintosh, does not make you a designer.
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Advice for Design Students