Design Thought Leader

There are two reasons why it’s important to market your in-house creative department:

1. To get work.
2. To tell everyone about it.

It’s that simple. The first thing you need to do is to advertise your services, explaining exactly what you do. Next, do good work. Better yet, do outstanding work. And then, finally, tell everyone about the great work you’re doing. If you’re doing it right, the cycle
will feed itself.

Glenn John Arnowitz
Director of Global Creative Solutions at Pfizer

Sketch Jam is based on the idea that everyone, regardless of skill or experience, can benefit from having a space to tinker, play, experiment and practice design sketching. Design sketches are sets of simple yet powerful artifacts designers create in order to solve problems or explore opportunities, a medium that can benefit anyone working creatively.

Kristina Loring
Content and Community Manager at frog design

…I really believe that inspiration and growth come from stepping outside of your ‘bubble’, your comfort zone. So I would suggest reading about other things. I think that it’s also very important to travel outside of your country. It may sound like a cliché, but different cultures and landscapes really do help open your mind. Most of my best ideas come from these moments of exploration and distance.

Matias Corea
Co-Founder & Chief Designer at Behance

It’s true. The energy, attitudes and effort of the people working on a product or service ultimately drive the brand’s face in public. The more you care about what you’re making and doing, the better you’re going to make it. You want the people who experience it to love it just as much as you do.

Paul Isakson
Co-Founder of Thinkers & Makers

We’re in a golden age of creativity. With fields cross-pollinating and blurring—it’s hard to be just one type of creative in a single medium. Many creatives, like Joy and I, are ‘slashes’ (i.e., illustrator/designer, photographer/director/stylist)—so we wanted to create a book that encompasses different kinds of creative freelancing. There is a lot of overlap across fields as well as differences you can learn from and apply to your own practice. In fact, the most interesting freelance practices I learned were from photographers.

Meg Mateo Ilasco
Owner of Mateo Ilasco and Co-Author of Creative, Inc.

Sharing is caring as the expression goes. And caring is rewarded through getting your product and your name out there, the comments that further the discussion of your piece, the emails you’ll receive from readers, and the people you meet who have read your writing and just want to introduce themselves as readers. I blush every time.

Spencer Fry
Business Guy of Carbonmade