When To Keep Creative Secrets: Stop Talking Your Ideas To Death
When we feel the thrill of a great idea, our first instinct is to grab the nearest person and share it. But there’s a problem -- ideas are very light.…
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5 Small Risks To Kickstart Your Creativity
It's easy to get into a creative rut when you work from home as an artist or maker. And it's not always easy to find inspiration when you have a…
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Stewart Scott-Curran Explains How Sprite Markets To Very Different Demographics
Stewart Scott-Curran wears more than one hat—he’s an art director, graphic designer, and illustrator. Currently he’s he art director at CNN digital, and he hosts Creative Mornings in San Francisco, where creatives…
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Chop Wood, Carry Water: Why It’s Okay for Freelancing to Feel Like Work
If you freelance for a living, you might be shocked and disappointed to learn that the work you fought so hard for feels like...well, work. And that means that something…
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Cereal: Examining The Quirky, Shaped Food That Shapes Us
CreativeLive has 12 different types of cereal to choose from. It’s a food that brings people together, stirs up conversations, inspires delight. Crafted in a laboratory and designed for optimal…
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A 16th Century Lesson On Finding Your Niche Market
A piece in the New York Times last week alerted me to a tribute to the Renaissance printer Aldus Manutius on display at New York City's posh Grolier Club. As the head (and only member)…
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Do You Have to Be Brave to Be an Artist?
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers…
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4 Traits Of Successful Self-Employed People
Before she was her own boss, Paper Jam Press founder Arianna Orland was working a regular job. But, she said, she missed the tactile part of design work. "I missed…
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How Learning Photoshop Could Really Help These 4 Industries
Good design benefits just about everyone. Whether it's wayfinding that helps you get to your gate at the airport to a beautiful website that is both appealing to the eye…
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Oscar Watch: The Most Creative Costume Designers In History
The Oscars are right around the corner! I’ve been a huge movie fan since I was a kid. Some of my favorite movies were the ones that had the most…
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