29 ways to stay creative

What do you do to stay creative? vimeo via TOFU design

iphoneographer

“perfect is boring” Do you have an iPhone? Do you use Instagram? Would you like to create a book of all your photos? Yeah, well now you can! I do not have an iPhone. Heck, my phone didn’t even “get smart” until this year. But I do see a lot of beautiful Instagram images and [...]

our fonts, our friends

Neato animated video from Veer.

found :: paper leaf

I stumbled upon Paper Leaf‘s site recently and look at the goodies I found! The Color Theory infographic is now my desktop wallpaper and the Elements of Design is on deck. Paper Leaf is a design team of two (husband and wife) that offer web and print design. Their blog is a great resource for [...]

creative business :: Outright for Etsy

I use Outright for my accounting and list it as one of my top ten helpful tools for creative businesses. Now Etsy users can join FREE. I really like using Outright and I feel smart when I can easily print out my profits, expenses and all that jazz at tax time. I’m not money or [...]

how trends and creativity become contagious

I recently watched an interview with Lady Gaga and was amazed to find out she is only 25. Then I felt really old, and uncool but I got over THAT (I’ve never been cool anyhow) and remembered this video I watched a while back from R+I Creative. INFLUENCERS FULL VERSION from R+I creative on Vimeo.

amazing things will happen

{agreed} I teared up when I watched Conan’s last show. This video made me a little dizzy, but it’s still great! Have an amazing weekend everybody! Conan O’Brien Kinetic Typography from Jacob Gilbreath on Vimeo.

giving credit

This is a great infographic (and poster at MAMMOTH) from Pia Jane Bijkerk and Erin Loechner amongst other ladies about crediting your blog sources (photos). Things often get murky when you are pulling images from various sources. Most of us learn blog etiquette as we go along. It’s easy to be lazy. Admittedly, I use [...]

what is a brand

I spend a lot of time designing for other people and explaining design, branding and marketing concepts to new (and some veteran) business owners. It’s nice when I find something clean, simple and thorough to reinforce what I’ve already learned and that can help me to educate new clients. I’m going to start collecting info [...]

helpful tools for your creative business

First of all: HAPPY FRIDAY!!! I have been looking forward to Friday all week long. I’ve lined up a few projects for myself this weekend and I have been compiling a list lately of all the different tools I use to facilitate my Etsy shop, Blog posts and general organization. I find I am constantly [...]

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