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Choose Interesting Work
The one criteria that has always worked out for me.
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What’s Right In Front of You
Silencing my ideas may be the hardest thing I have to do.
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How McDonald’s Tricks You With Color
Design is sometimes used against us.
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Just Keep Making
What we can learn from Eddie Van Halen about creative work.
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The Perils of Naming Your Company
We name groups from time to time. This post contains some of what we've learned.
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Say This Instead
Changing the presentation changes the meaning.
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How to Find a Position
The other day I wrote about positioning design studios. I provide more specific ideas here.
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Look for Waves
We give some business leaders too much credit for their successes, and fail to consider underlying forces.
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Is Your Design Business Doomed?
I get a lot of email from frustrated design business owners. This is the key topic of discussion.
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Don’t Ask Permission
We keep waiting for approval, when we'd probably be better off by just doing it.
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Your Title is a Cage
I call myself a Creative Director, but I'm working as a designer, strategist, writer, and janitor. Maybe titles are over.
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Why You Ship
I've grown tired of thinking about what might work, and now, I just concentrate on producing.
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The Rise of the Small Networks
I think a renaissance of online community is just around the corner.
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Stop Acting Like A Loser
It's when we succumb to our fears that we lose our power.
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A Manifesto for a Happy Creative Life
Thinking about the parts of this creative life that make it most worthwhile.
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Play “Take Away”
We're doing this with the sites we build, and I felt the approach worth sharing.
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Ten Tips for Producing Effective Design
A few thoughts on how to make design more easily—and get clients to buy in.
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Design the Logo Last
Designing logos needn't be as difficult a task as it often is.