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I talk about this a lot as a creative who has been in the industry for over 15 years. Ideating original ideas is hard. Chances are, someone has done, somewhere. So designers scour the internet and social media searching to see if their ideas are original or not, often getting sidetracked by what they find…
I have received so many compliments and requests to buy these crepe paper flowers (originally for Neiman Marcus) that I decided to create a DIY guide to walk anyone who might make these beautiful flowers at home! Download and print the templates below, and make sure you have all of the materials on the supply…
It is easy to find yourself in a creative rut. You land that dream job at the big agency, and the first few years are great. You are churning out ideas like there is no tomorrow. You work hard to develop your niche, your specialty, the one thing that you do better than everyone else. You set…
It has been two years since my husband and I made the decision to pack a backpack and hop the pond. We were both working independently at the time, and were in an unusually convenient place to skip over to Europe for a month – so we did. I can not express how important I…
If you have not already read this book, I highly recommend picking it up: http://austinkleon.com/steal/ Austin Kleon begins with the best description that I could have possibly come up with for this blog post, so I am going to take his advice here and steal it. Since I began this creative journey years ago in…
