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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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