Results for Tags: "creative" (24 results found)

October 18, 2012

Use of Flexible Workforce Key for Marketing & Creative Orgs

Our research shows that hiring managers need to strategically determine how best to proactively balance workloads and bring technical expertise to their teams. To accomplish those goals, the flexible workforce is being looked to more and more as a vital external resource. More

tagged: digital, creative, white paper, survey, contracting, blog, mobile, managing, staffing

September 27, 2012

Design Salaries 2012: Holding Strong

The results of the AIGA/Aquent 2012 Survey of Design Salaries was released this week and contains some not-so-surprising information, but plenty of good news on upward trends. More

tagged: digital, interactive, creative, survey, blog, graphic design

August 31, 2012

You and the Art of Freelance Creative Management

Keeping creative talent engaged isn’t as difficult as it may be made out to be. It just takes planning and a slightly different mindset. Go ahead, be creative about it! More

tagged: creative, hiring, blog

February 14, 2012

Driving Change with Creativity

How can you use creativity to push the boundaries, and drive change within your business? Do you view design as just another part of the marketing function? Well, you would be wrong in that assessment. In today’s business landscape, design can be the catalyst that drives businesses to innovate, find solutions to busi... More

tagged: digital, creative

November 09, 2011

Mastering the creative brief

You’re juggling dozens of priorities and under the gun to get a new marketing campaign under way. Do you really have time to write a creative brief? Avoid the temptation to skip it! Why? More

tagged: creative

November 03, 2011

Seven Tips for Keeping your Best Creative Talent

Your creative staff is critical to your success. The economy has kept many of these talented people in their current roles, either due to lack of opportunities or not wanting to switch jobs during a volatile economy. As things turn around, how do you keep this talent engaged and happy? Here are seven tips for keeping y... More

tagged: creative, hiring, freelance, managing

May 03, 2011

Five Tips For Managing Creative Talent

Keeping creative talent engaged and, well, "creative" is no easy task. They're artists and dreamers. They don't fit into a square box (they prefer to design the box). But manage them well and they'll wow you every time. Here are five quick tips for making the most of your creative staff. More

tagged: talent, creative

December 01, 2010

High Quality, Low Cost: 3 Keys to Successful Creative Services Management

Running an in-house creative services function can be uniquely challenging for several reasons, but the most pressing is this: You've got to provide creative solutions and customer service at levels comparable to those of external agencies while saving your clients and your parent organization money, and those cost sav... More

tagged: talent, brand, creative, packaging

October 14, 2010

Top 10: Mostly Graphic Design eBooks (from ScriptMafia.org)

ScriptMafia.org put together a list of 21 Design books. Here are the Top 10. More

tagged: creative

September 14, 2010

Top 10: Books on Design (from Huffington Post)

The Huffington Post has a nice list of Design Books that they judged from the cover (and then from the inside). More

tagged: creative

June 28, 2010

Dream in Color - Pantone Opens a Hotel

It's like a Designer's CMYK dream come true. A hotel owned by and inspired by Pantone: the Pantone Hotel. More

tagged: creative

January 06, 2010

Design Eye for the Non-Design Guy (or Gal)

Design Eye for the Non-Design Guy (or Gal) More

tagged: creative

August 28, 2009

10 Tips For Booking Freelancers

If your desk area has started to resemble a small dysfunctional recycling plant, complete with its own ecosystem growing from a well used coffee mug it might be time to face the fact you need an extra pair of hands to lighten the work load. More

tagged: creative, hiring, freelance, managing, staffing

December 01, 2008

Please Critique Me

A web design firm based in North Carolina, OnWired, has set up a site called Please Critique Me, where “designers can submit their work and have it reviewed (albeit publicly) by one of their industry peers.” More

tagged: creative

November 20, 2008

"Can Good Design Also Be Ugly?"

"Can good design also be ugly?" More

tagged: creative

October 20, 2008

How Do YOU Measure the Impact of Design?

When a client or manager asks about the return on investing in “good” design, she wants to translate it into the language of profit and loss. Paying designers is an expense that she must weigh against other expenses and justify in terms of relative profitability. More

tagged: creative

October 09, 2008

Semi-Overwhelming List of Resources for Designers

I present you with this super-extensive and semi-overwhelming list of design resources compiled by a young designer in Hawaii. More

tagged: creative

October 03, 2008

An Introduction to Freelancing

Top journo and editorial freelancer, John Pinching shares his thoughts on a career as a freelancer following more than seven successful years working in temporary contracts… More

tagged: creative, contracting, freelance, staffing

September 26, 2008

Do What You Love and the Money Will Follow, Right?

"If your work isn’t what you love, then something isn’t right." More

tagged: creative

September 25, 2008

Working As a Temp or Contractor... Have Your Say!

Being a professional temp or contractor can provide a broad exposure to many different industries as well as giving individuals more of an opportunity to strike a better work-life balance. More

tagged: creative, contracting, freelance, staffing

August 20, 2008

If This Is the Future of Design, Does Design Have a Future?

NPR ran a story this morning entitled, “Crowd Sourcing Turns Business On Its Head,” in which it reported on a sneaker company that asks customers to design potential new shoes, posts the designs so that folks can vote on their faves, then produces and sells the top shoe. More

tagged: creative

August 12, 2008

Is Contract Marketing An Attractive Option?

Companies are now needing to fill gaps in capacity with short-term staff, and hiring specialist staff in areas such as new media, is the smart way for companies to deliver specific projects without investing in permanent teams. More

tagged: creative, job hunting, contracting, freelance, staffing

July 30, 2008

101 Unusual Things You Can Do To Save The Earth

101 Unusual Things You Can Do To Save The Earth More

tagged: creative, managing

August 25, 2007

An End of Summer Reading List for Information Designers

Peter Merholz of Adaptive Path recently posted a reading list on their blog that provides designers, and information designers in particular, with a hefty end of summer reading list. More

tagged: creative