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25 Creative CVs and Resumés

If your resume and CV (curriculum vitae, definition) look like the one below, then you’re failing to impress prospective employers, partners, and clients. You’re a creative professional! Look like it! Everything you produce with your name on it should sell you and your creative skills. Let accountants and sales people stick with the black on […]

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Free Vintage Poster Art

Usually I’m a bit wary of websites with names that start with the word “free.” But Freevintageposters.com appears to be the real deal, offering high resolution poster art in categories like advertising, travel, movies, sports, and more. The quality of the samples I looked at was good both in terms of color and detail. But […]

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It Takes More Than Talent

The following is an excerpt from When Talent Isn’t Enough: Business Basics for the Creatively Inclined by Kristen Fischer. You can also download this excerpt as a PDF. Reprinted, with permission of the publisher, from WHEN TALENT ISN’T ENOUGH © 2013 Kristen Fischer. Published by Career Press, Pompton Plains, NJ. 800-227-3371. All rights reserved. It […]

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Meet Matboard

There’s no denying that Pinterest has a lot to offer creatives as a source of visual inspiration (and time-sucking pixel hoarding). But it can be a bit unfocused. Browse the Design category and you’ll see everything from infographics to artisinal lightbulbs. For an alternative that’s completely focused on graphic design, check out Matboard. Like Pinterest, […]

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