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Creative Professionalism
Even though some of the tips below are geared toward certain disciplines (e.g., photography or Web design), every creative will benefit from them.
We all need career advice occasionally. Lateral Action drew up a list of 12 inspiring career guides for creative people. Interesting to think that you can find creative insight for your career in The Hero with A Thousand Faces.
Another way to get creative career advice? Twitter. Design Informer asked its Twitter followers for their favorite design advice distilled into 140-character nuggets. The response was overwhelming and the result was… well, read for yourself.
Social networking helps your career only if you put something into it. Here’s how one photographer makes use of his LinkedIn network, via Creative Freelancer.
You can either have freelancing foisted upon you or you can choose to go freelance. In either case, here are your first steps to freelance freedom, from Freelance Switch.
Here’s a good question: As a freelancer, how do you know when you’ve been fired? Noupe has some ideas.
Tax time can be agonizing for freelancers. This list of 29 financial articles for freelancers will help not only at tax time but throughout the year as well, via Creative Freelancer.
There are a couple of good discussion threads on Core77 pertaining to the business of being creative:
- Does it make sense to take a pay cut for a job that gives you more experience?
- What to put on the “teaser” page of a Web portfolio.
“Seven Basics to create a good design brief” is from WebDesigner Depot.
Crediting content can get messy in this interlinked, multi-sourced world. Swiss Miss features a flowchart poster that shows how to credit images.
Miscellaneous
Enjoy these interesting tidbits from around the blogosphere.
Here’s a handy link for anyone who uses Adobe Creative Suite 5: Instead of rooting around for the link to the online manual for each CS5 application, just refer to Design Geek’s quick links to the PDFs of Adobe CS5 online help.
Old books never die; they just become iPad or Kindle covers. Thanks to eBookNewser for these. (Egads, I may have that Rod McKuen book in a box somewhere!)
Here’s another printing technique adapted to the digital age: flipbooks. Via Workflow:ePub.
A wonderful, amazing, informative video from Encyclopedia Britannica circa 1947 shows how books were made. Posted by Core77, this brought a smile to my face and a tear to my eye.
Watch a video of street artist Eine paint giant antiquated letters on buildings in San Francisco, via PSFK.
An “exhibit” about and lecture by visionary designer John Maeda has opened at the Adobe Museum of Digital Media. Here’s how the Adobe blog describes it: “Maeda discusses how today’s designers are connecting the worlds of digital creativity and analog (or handcrafted) creativity.” Sounds interesting–and you can visit the museum in your pajamas!
Finally, a new file format has emerged that may just help save the planet. If you have a PDF that doesn’t really need to be printed, save it in the WWF format. Swiss Miss has the scoop.
This article was last modified on August 12, 2021
This article was first published on March 31, 2011
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