Tag: creative process

How to Start a Creative Agency from Scratch?

I bet there’s a time in every designer’s life when they catch themselves thinking: maybe I should create my own firm?

10 Ways to Make a Design Project Faster and More Efficient

To make someone’s business more efficient via work with visuals, one has to become a more efficient graphic designer and employ best practices. Become a faster graphic designer. It’s a no-brainer.

7 Ways Graphic Designers Benefit From Digital Asset Management Software

Let me tell you a story about the importance of a central repository for your media files. Recently I’ve been working on a new creative project of mine – not something from my regular job, rather a hobby…

5 Key Reasons Why Sketching Is Important in Graphic Design

Have you ever had some unaccomplished artistic ideas? If you’re into graphic design, you might have had a few or even more.

10 Best Project Management Tips for Design Professionals

Graphic design is something that takes its own separate place among all other creative industries. Want it or not, we interact with it all the time almost every minute of our lives.

How To Present A Final Design Mockup

A final design presentation is never an easy thing and should be taken as seriously as the designing process itself. How do you do it, though? We have answers, but first, let me introduce someone to you…

How to Build a High-Performance Creative Team

Hey-ho, my friends! Slurping hot steamy coffee and listening to the old good Blitzkrieg Bop by Ramones playing in my headphones (wow, a rhyme!), I somehow decided I wanted to share with you more insights on teamwork.

10 Key Project Management Tips to Follow

Project management is like driving a car during rush hour. It is not easy, it’s tiring, and sometimes it might drive you nuts, but you still have to keep your focus on.

Are Logos overrated?

Michael Bierut – a graphic designer of such projects as Verizon, Billboard, museumofsex, and many more, thinks that logos are overrated. The only thing makes it great. Which one? Let’s discuss this.

How to Improve Your Project Review and Approval Process?

Okay, listen: we’ve been here multiple times already, but never actually discussed it in detail.

How to Build a Successful In-House Creative Team?

Howdy! Have you ever heard about such a thing as an in-house creative team? I bet you have – they are some sort of a trend nowadays among many companies. Why are they becoming more and more widespread?

Top 10 Remote Working Tools for Creative Teams

Thinking about the evolution of means of communication, I cannot stop wondering how could humanity cover all this way in such a short period of time. From the post doves to online messengers, the form has changed but the essence remained the same – to deliver the message, instruction.

How to Manage a Creative Team Without Limiting Their Freedom

It is always challenging to deal with creatives — the chaotic, out-of-the-box thinkers who often look down on management for restricting their imagination. Creativity and fresh perspectives are extremely sought after in the modern business landscape. Ironically, they are also a roadblock when it comes to successful management.

What decreases the profitability of a creative team? My personal experience.

I used to work as the Project manager and Creative director and noticed that the majority of our projects were losing profitability due to the simple reason – miscommunication. And I mean internal miscommunication within a team and with the client as well. As a result, we had to miss the deadlines several times and clients […]

What is the main cause of a headache in creative direction? Nick Schön’s vision

During the last months, I`m asking CDs, Art-Directors and design managers the one question – what is the main headache in their job? This exciting experience became a good source for some blog series I`ll share with you later.