Portfolio Advice from AIGA Portland’s Career Tools Event
Portfolio advice was doled out by a panel of four experts at the cutting edge of portfolio building and review, at AIGA Portland’s Career...
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Post Branding Interview By the Client
Past client, Distill Research, was intrigued by the branding process that I led them through to create their overall brand strategy and...
Marketers Need New Experiences to Be Effective – Step Outside Your Front Door
Marketers Need New Experiences to Be Effective If you want to communicate your point to someone, the first thing you do is to get their...
The 5 Basic Stages of Getting To Know Your Audience
During a more extensive branding process, there is a point at which we consider the target audience in depth. Those of you who went to...
Chipotle Bag: Mistake Cover-up or Insider Joke for Graphic Designers?
Chipotle is one of my favorite healthy-ish, cheap, quick, places for lunch. I especially love it when I get one of their to-go bags with...
Corey Arnold: Fishing in All the Right Places
Part of keeping the creative juices alive, is staying inspired. I do this in many ways such as going to art openings, reading blogs,...
Steal Like An Artist, by: Austin Kleon
Years ago I saw Austin Kleon give a short lecture on the topic of his recent book, “Steal Like An Artist” at the Museum of Contemporary...
ELEVATOR PITCH PRIMER: 8 Things To Keep in Mind
An elevator pitch tells someone what you do in as few words as possible while piquing as much interest as possible. It’s what we say when...
Effective Logos: Some Basic Requirements
Sometimes what we think is a clever or beautiful brand identity, can actually cause problems down the road because the logo is not...
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