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From Apple to Oakley: How to Land Your First Big Client
You’ve been slowly rising through your design career. You’ve created your portfolio, built up a roster of local clients, and you feel like you’re ready to tackle work for global brands. Then one day,...
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Anil Dash: Share Your Values and You’ll Share Success
About this presentation Anil Dash, co-founder of ThinkUp, explains how even the smallest details of our work shape not only our businesses, but the culture around us. This presents us with a unique...
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The Subtle Art of Being a Designer at a Massive Company
Judging by articles on design blogs, it’s easy to think that every designer works for a boutique agency or a clever just-announced startup (likely with a homepage that features large stock art with a...
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Alex Blumberg: Your Best Selling Points Are the Mistakes You’ve Made
About this presentation Startups often have “creation myths” about their early days. But real life is much messier than that. To prove this, former This American Life producer Alex Blumberg recorded...
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Are We Entering the End of the Specialist Era?
The creative life rarely moves in a straight line. Just ask MDavid Low. Low is the Design Director and Category Lead for the Nike+ running app that helps runners track their workouts (often with some...
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Kimberly Bryant: Break Down Your Biases
About this presentation We all have biases and blind spots, unconsciously affecting the way we collaborate with others. In this 99U talk, Black Girls Code founder Bryant shares how pervasive these...
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Andrea Tsurumi: You’ll Never Have “Enough Time”
New York-based illustrator Andrea Tsurumi doesn’t take the easy way out. Early in her career, she gained experience at a literary agency and a major publisher; these roles carved out a clear cut path...
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The Power of Creative Cross Training: How Experimentation Creates Possibility
For most creative professionals, we have a tendency to live within the limitations of our labels: copywriter, web designer, filmmaker, illustrator, and author. Those are the things we do and we get...
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4 Strategies to Charge More For Your Work
So you’ve come to a place in your career where you’ve got more than enough work from a steady stream of clients. You’re obviously in demand, but how do you grow your business if you can’t squeeze any...
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What You Need to Consider Before You Go Freelance: A Checklist
Chucking the corporate life for the freedom of working independently is the fantasy of many a cubicle monkey. But before you make the jump, ask yourself some hard questions to make sure that you can...
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