There's a good chance you spend more time working at your career than working on your romantic relationship. Oddly enough, many pitfalls in your career are quite similar to those mistakes made in your love life. Pitfalls that are bound to human nature often result in actions and regrets for which there are no undo keys.
Read MoreCan you stand it? No email?
Productivity can be improved with the help of removing speed bumps and comforts such as sitting down, internal emails or even heating the room. (ok, the heating idea isn't real.) Still, ideas such as no lunch at your desk are being shared as a means to increasing work output. Read on and tell me, would the old days before email, when people actually collaborated by talking to each other, move things along better? Sounds promising, but I'm sure than withdrawal would not be not easy. Business.com shares these reflections on killing productivity killers here.
Doggy Designers falling prey to marketing?
Of sure, fifty shades of gray puts your mind in the gutter. But to those who walk alongside the gutter, and spend most of their time understanding that graphic design is a dog's life, fifty shades of gray is their Panbone palette. But has Panbone's annual Gray of the Year announcement become a cheap ploy to hype their countless books and systems? A dalmatian I spoke to, who wishes to remain nameless, said: "In the old days, it was just the swatch books and I'd chew them up fairly quickly. You'd think Panbone would be happy with me just re-ordering more. But no, they came out with hundreds of variations of that book, and they even license dog dishes in all sorts of shades of grey. Enough is enough. Who cares which arbitrary gray they choose each year? I simply want to know if my master is putting together a stocking for me this Christmas." Is Panbone a shady marketer? Lift your voice, or perhaps just lift your leg, and let me know how you feel.
Ho-ho-ho-hold on a minute!
Naughty or Nice? Where do graphic designers land on Santa's list?
"You get what you pay for!" Yes, we all know it's true, and yet many people still think that effective cheap design is a real possibility. Take a company's logo, for example. Nowadays, you can buy one for only $5, but is the artwork a copyright infringement? Buyer beware! Rebecca Blake takes a hard look at that soft pricing: https://graphicartistsguild.org/news/fiverr-logos
A little exhaustion won't exhaust your creative juices
Do you find your spark long after dark? Losing some sleep might be your ket to finding greater creativity.
Read MoreThe Journey
"What a long strange trip it's been." Looking back at all the changes in graphic design, it's astonishing to recall all the things we used to get things done without computers: press type from Letraset, rubber cement or eventually hot wax to adhere typesetting to mechanicals, X-acto knives, Rapidograph pens, plus those endless T-squares and lucite triangles. That was only part of it. I was recalling a photoshoot where these Alka-Seltzer tablets had to have the client's logo on them as they fizzed away in a glass of water. So easy with Photoshop nowadays. A major sculpting and photo headache back then. I put together a little story call The Journey. It'll be interesting to see where the next bend in the road winds up. To view it, click here.
Putting graphic exhaustion out to pasture?
Is there a better way to end the stress of designing without enough rewards? Rebecca Blake takes a good look at what is the right direction when it appears your first direction has run it's course.
https://graphicartistsguild.org/news/exhaustion-obsolescence-and-self-worth