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Marks and shapes can be created accidentally or spontaneously as the result of process. An event or action results in shapes being…

  • Post category:Eye Level – Design + Illustration Theory & Tutorials
Continue ReadingWhy We Create
Read more about the article In Design and Art, Perception Trumps Skill

It's easy to approach art and design studies with an emphasis on technique, tools, and methods, and the elements and principles. But…

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Continue ReadingIn Design and Art, Perception Trumps Skill
Read more about the article The 4 Seasons of Creativity

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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Continue ReadingThe 4 Seasons of Creativity
Read more about the article A Key to Productivity: Do the Right Things

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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Continue ReadingA 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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Continue ReadingMaking 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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Continue ReadingThe 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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Continue ReadingSkills You’re Not Taught In Design School
Read more about the article A Bit About Ropes

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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Continue ReadingA 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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Continue ReadingAcknowledge the Box
Read more about the article Green Scheduling: 6 Tips for Sustaining Your Creative Time

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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Continue ReadingGreen 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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Continue ReadingWhy 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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Continue ReadingDrawing 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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Continue ReadingCreativity 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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Continue ReadingSketchy 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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Continue ReadingAdvice 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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Continue ReadingBeing Remarkable
Read more about the article Advice for Design Students

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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Continue ReadingAdvice for Design Students
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