On the Creative Freelancer Blog lately, Dyana Valentine, who will be conducting the workshop on creative collaboration on the first day of the Creative Freelancer Conference, has been offering up some tips on how to prep so you do the best connecting you can at this conference — or any conference for that matter. First, she suggests taking a...
Those of us who missed this film’s theatrical release last fall can now enjoy the captivating feature-length indie in the comfort of our own lap top as the movie has just become available for download on iTunes. “Helvetica”, which is directed by Gary Hustwit, looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as...
Designboom, together with partners DA Design Association of Japan and Tobu Department Store, is calling for entries for their international Green Earth graphic design competition. The competition is divided in two themes, and you may enter projects in one or both categories. The first theme is called ‘Green’ and competitors are asked to create a graphic artwork that illustrates...
How can you, an enthusiastic, creative solopreneur, not give away all your ideas in the first meeting with a potential client? 1. Listen more than you speak. That will help you restrain your enthusiasm (or desperation) PLUS you’ll get more information, which you’ll need to do the project. 2. Offer a paid, 1-hour brainstorming meeting instead of a free...
The Project M Lab Part 2 of the report from Project M’s work in Greensboro, Alabama Project M 2008 was to set to officially end on July 1st. Nine young designers, a couple dozen or so advisors, and John Bielenberg all headed to Greensboro, Alabama to explore ways design could be used for social good. After spending a month...
Image: Watercolor by Brockett Horne How to Avoid Damage in a Downturn, a recent podcast by David C. Baker, provides significant insights for design managers and studio leaders. Listeners will appreciate his honest presentation, built from his own experiences of guiding creative teams through unexpected economic instability. Four main points in the presentation seem insightful to me no matter...
Illustration by Von Glitschka History itself is replete with examples of human ingenuity showcasing it’s creativity when faced with restrictive resources. So much so that a popular saying has survived a millennium and is still in use today to describe such situations. You have probably heard it. “Necessity is the mother of invention.” When I first started out in...
Steven Heller and David Womack (more or less) Steven Heller and David Womack are two of the most important and knowledgeable writers, thinkers and talkers on design today. They recently collaborated on the book “Becoming a Digital Designer: A Guide to Careers in Web, Video, Broadcast, Game and Animation Design”, which offer an insightful overview of the contemporary digital...
As we get ready for the Creative Freelancer Conference in Chicago, August 27-29, we are simultaneously building a resource web site for freelancers that will live well beyond this first event. (BTW, early bird deadline was extended to July 31st. You can still get $60 off the registration.) So even if you can’t make it to Chicago, take advantage...
The British Council’s initiative Creative Economy, which aims to help establish global networks in creative fields, is announcing the launch of its new UK Young Design Entrepreneur award. The purpose of the award is to create networks between young design entrepreneurs and the design industry in emerging economies. The three finalists of 2008 will travel to India to meet...
