How To Be An Art Director in 125 Simple Steps

May 26, 2015 | Art Direction, Client Work, Creative Strategy, Storytelling

“What do you do?” “I’m an art director.” Silence. “Okay…but…what do you do?” Sound familiar? In the introductory “fable” of Art Direction Explained, At Last! by Steven Heller and Veronique Vienne, Brian... Read More

I Don’t Want To Build A Company, I Want To Build A Life

May 11, 2015 | Creative Projects, Creative Strategy, My Creative Journey, Storytelling

It’s been four years since I interviewed Design for Mankind’s Erin Loechner here in this space. At that time this was a blog called Inward Facing Girl. Erin was one of the first design bloggers that I read regularly and looked to for guidance as I learned... Read More

The Great Discontent + Elle Luna #The100DayProject

May 5, 2015 | Creative Process, Creative Projects, Illustration, My Creative Journey

Recently I started participating in #The100DayProject by Elle Luna and The Great Discontent. I learned about Elle from The Great Discontent Issue #1, which I backed on Kickstarter. She’s got a great story about how she found her “dream” apartment and... Read More

A Creative Experiment in “Doing It All”

Apr 20, 2015 | Creative Process, Creative Strategy, Fine Art, Mindfulness, My Creative Journey

  A couple of weeks ago I spent an afternoon cleaning my bathroom while I listened to Jess Lively’s amazing interview with Hal Elrod. There is so much inspiration here – both practical and spiritual. Listen to it. I swear it makes cleaning the bathroom... Read More

On Letting Go

Apr 2, 2015 | Creative Process, Creative Projects, Mindfulness, My Creative Journey, Photography, Storytelling, Writing

Lately I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about saying no to some things in order to be available to say yes to the opportunities that I really want. Artist Lisa Congdon wrote a great blog post on saying no and what this has meant for her and her business, and... Read More