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Inspiring Design For The Greater Good Presented By John Bielenberg |
Join Project M founder and designer John Bielenberg for this exploration of do-good design. He'll prove that you don't need a special skill set to make a difference in the worldjust apply the things you already know how to do.
Price: 15
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The Accidental Creative Part 2: Establishing An Idea Culture - |
"This is the second in a 2-part series with Todd Henry provides insight into being creative under pressure. Part 2: Establishing An Idea Culture OnDemand DesignCast One of the challenges of the create on demand world is that teams need to be able to collaborate quickly and generate brilliant ideas consistently when new projects arise. But effective and frictionless collaboration is difficult to achieve. In this session, Todd Henry will show some simple practices and systems that creative teams can use to create a culture where ideas flow freely. You Will Learn: The core attributes of brilliant ideas and where to find them How to effectively define creative problems for your team How to create a culture of continuous idea generation How to surround a problem and get the best ideas on the table 5 simple conversations that help creative teams thrive Todd Henry is the founder of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams generate brilliant id"
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Strengthen Your Business Bootcamp Part 3: Communicate Your Difference |
"Design-firm-owner-turned-business-coach Marcia Hoeck presents a 3-part series designed to help you, as a creative business owner, get a firm grasp on the top three areas needed to get your business supporting you, instead of you supporting it — and they're not what you think. This HOW Learning Series is based on Marcia's own successful 25-year design firm experience and her recent work coaching entrepreneurs, which has led her to believe in the power of laying a strong foundation of purpose, confidence, and value. We'll examine the basics of plotting a course for your business based on a solid purpose, taking control of overwhelm and getting unstuck so you can project the right kind of client-attractive confidence, and being able to talk about what really makes you different and valuable to clients so they'll choose you over the other guy. Because of her quirks (only recently identified as ADHD tendencies), Marcia often found the business aspects of her work daunting. Out o"
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The Accidental Creative - Ondemand Design Webcast Series |
"This 2-part series with Todd Henry provides insight into being creative under pressure. Part 1: How To Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice Creative insight can be an elusive beast, but in today's competitive marketplace the pressure to consistently deliver great ideas continues to rise. It's challenging to generate brilliant ideas when you need them most, but with a few purposeful practices you can set yourself up for everyday brilliance. In this session, Todd Henry will reveal a handful of simple practices that will help you experience consistent creative insights in your life and work. You Will Learn: Why there is so much inherent tension in the creative workplace The three forces that assassinate creativity How to gain focus on your most important creative priorities How to better manage energy for more effective creating How to overcome the efficiency trap and obsess instead on effectiveness Part 2: Establishing An Idea Culture One of the challenges of the create o"
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Arem Duplessis: Redesigning A Legendary Brand - Ondemand Design |
"A Behind The Scene's Look into the Redesign of The New York Times MagazineGood magazine redesigns aren't easy or fast. They require a great deal of planning, long hours, and lots of hard work by a dedicated team. But what happens when you finish one and 14 months later a new regime is hired and wants to rethink everything? And what if that magazine is one of the most decorated and well respected in the industry? In this DesignCast, Arem Duplessis gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at how he and his team navigated the recent New York Times Magazine redesign when new editor Hugo Lindgren came aboard. Duplessis will give viewers an in-depth look into the journey of a major magazine's major redesign. He'll share the evolution of the new design and how his team combed the magazine and newspaper archives for visual elements to incorporate. Plus he'll present practical information into how and why one should approach a redesign and the lessons learned along the way. Arem Duplessis is t"
Price: 69
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The Tribe Vibe: How To Build A Great Team Culture - Ondemand Design |
"This is Part 1 of the Grow Your Skills as an In-House Creative Manager Learning Series. Running a corporate design department—or working successfully in one—requires the perfect blend of creative skill and business acumen. In this 4-part HOW Learning Series, veteran in-house design leader Andy Epstein (co-founder of InSource and editor of the InHOWse Designer Blog) presents strategies and tactics for thriving as a creative in a corporate environment. You'll get real-world advice on managing a team, creating smart processes, maintaining brand standards and building successful relationships. Nothing impacts the power and success of an in-house team more than its culture. Groups that possess positive group dynamics such as collaboration, mutual respect, kindness, empathy, humor, commitment and passion not only operate more efficiently, but are sustainable, supportive, nurturing forces whose attributes can actually impact the greater corporate culture of the companies w"
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It's Who You Know: The Ultimate Networking Kit |
"You could be one conversation away from doubling or tripling your income. Would you know what to say? Networking opportunities pose themselves often in our businesses—but far too many of those opportunities are neglected, overlooked, or not handled properly because people simply aren't equipped with networking know-how. We could tell you endless stories of how singular conversations led to big budget projects and huge amounts of business for creatives just like you. Hands down, networking in the most effective tool there is to grow your business. In this kit, you'll get everything you need to network effectively. It's all right here! Fortunately, being a good networker really can become second nature. (Yes, even to shy people!) Networking doesn't have to be strenuous or uncomfortable. It can be relaxed, fun, and happen with great comfort and confidence. But you've got to have the tools… If you are naturally a shy person, this kit will help you overcome your natural ten"
Price: 99
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Print Magazine April 2012 Digital Download |
"You'll Love This Digital Issue If: You're ready to see the 2012 New Visual Artists! You're interested in design education and the future of design You're a fan of Franklin Gothic Print Magazine's April 2012 Issue is the New Visual Artists issue! For the last 14 years, Print has featured an annual issue called the New Visual Artists Review, which introduces and profiles 20 of the most promising rising talents in graphic design, advertising, illustration, digital media, photography, and animation—all under the age of 30. This competition is invitation-only: Our choices are drawn from nominations made by art directors, designers, critics, and industry professionals. The issue offers much-deserved exposure each year to 20 young artists doing innovative work. In Print Magazine's April 2012 Issue You'll Find: FEATURES The 2012 New Visual Artist: 20 Under 30 The winners of the competition are published annually in our April issue. If you are an art director or design profess"
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Open Type Demystified - Ondemand Design Webcast |
"This is Part 1 of the Typography Now: Everything You Need to Know about Fonts Learning Series with Ilene Strizver. What's on your wish list for the font of the future? Room for more characters, including small caps, old style figures, swashes and ligatures, and maybe even some ornaments? Perhaps a font format that works on both a Mac and a PC? Maybe even a font with a brain that knows when to use beginning and ending swashes, and other case-sensitive characters? Well, brace yourself, because the future is NOW! You'll learn: * What exactly is OpenType * How OpenType differs from Type1 and TrueType * What are the extra features of an OpenType font * How to access them * Availability of OpenType fonts About the Speaker Ilene Strizver, founder of The Type Studio, is a typographic consultant, designer, writer and educator specializing in all aspect of visual communication, from the æsthetic to the technical. Ilene formerly was the Director of Typeface Development for Inte"
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How Singles: A Stitch In Type |
"If you consider the tiny spaces in the weave of a piece of fabric as points on a grid, then it ™s not a huge mental leap to think of sewing as an analog version of designing in pixels. Seamstresses and homemakers, grannies and crafters have been poking colorful thread into material for generations. But leave it to a pair of young designers to bring this antiquated art to modern media. Read about how these twins sisters from Down Under make a creative splash with their hand-embroidered typographic confections."
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Print Magazine February 2012 Digital Download |
"You'll Love This Digital Issue If: You're feeling rebellious and strangely political You want to see how powerful design can really be You're fascinated by the new #occupy thing. Print Magazine's February 2012 Issue is dubbed The Power Issue, in which we examine the true influence of design and the designer. This issue is a call to whip up some posters, start a 'sine', and make things happen. We'll examine how the occupy movement isn't that new, how pissed off punks in the 90s gave an extra loud voice to women in the 90s, and how design fits into it all. In Print Magazine's February 2012 Issue You'll Find: On the cover: We asked Mirko Ilić to reinterpret one of the classic graphics created by Philippe Vermès during the 1968 French protests. FEATURES Riot in the Stacks Inside the archive of the 1990s feminist punk movementBy Margaret Eby Rock Versus paperAn interview with the Occupy artist of Paris '68By William BostwickAn Anatomy of UncriticismWhat happens"
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How Singles: First Came Design. Then Came Marriage. |
"The husband-wife team at EightHourDay have it all: an interactive business, an illustration portfolio, an Etsy shop. What's the secret to their success?"
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How Singles: Package Deal |
"Distill the discipline of packaging design to its essence, and you have simple forms: box, bottle, bag. But skilled designers enhance those forms with materials, finishes and flourishes in ways that elevate a package from mundane to memorable. We consulted with Andrew Gibbs, editor/founder of the package design website TheDieline.com, to spotlight 10 projects featuring eye-catching paper choices and distinctive production techniques."
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Take Control Of Your Money: Financial Success For Creative |
"Are you satisfied with you're earning as a creative professional? Does talking budget with a client make you nervous? Do you worry that your hourly rate is too high ... or too low? Marketing Mentor's Ilise Benun presents a three-part series of online sessions designed to help creative professionals like you manage money—how to think about it, how to talk about it and how to manage it. This HOW Learning Series will teach creatives—whether full-time freelancers, agency owners, moonlighters or aspiring entrepreneurs—the basics they need to know about the financial side of a creative business, then point them toward more detailed resources to learn more. We'll address financial questions common to a wide range of creatives, from how to develop the business mindset required to take your business to the next level, to how to position your price and talk about money with confidence, to how to deal with numbers and get out of the money fog. Ilise has thoroughly resea"
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How October 2007 Digital Download |
"Self-Promotion Annual The winners in HOW's annual Promotion Design Awards team up with killer advice on marketing your design business in this hefty issue. In addition to 120 award-winning designs, you'll find: • An easy-to-use marketing gameplan, complete with an annual calendar for designers that will steer you toward success • Strategies for developing your ideal client mix: not too big, not too small, not too many, not too demanding • Not enough time to promote your work? Trying to break into a new market? Here's how to overcome your biggest marketing challenges. PLUS Winners of HOW's Promotion Design Awards in these categories: • Client Promotions • Designer Promotions • Illustrator/Photographer Promotions • Miscellaneous Promotions • Nonprofit Promotions • Personal Promotions • Student Promotions"
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"Planning, Packaging And Promoting Yourself As A Product - Ondemand" |
"You create complete brand identities to help your clients sell their products and services. But how well are you selling yourself? According to author and designer Jeff Fisher, the key to attracting new clients and more work is planning, packaging and promoting yourself as a product. He helps you determine what product should be in your package, then offers tips and advice for creating the appearance of the product, getting it on the right shelf in the market, explaining your product to potential customers, and getting those customers to buy your product again and again. About the PresenterJeff Fisher, author of Identity Crisis!, is the Engineer of Creative Identity for the Portland-based firm Jeff Fisher LogoMotives. A 30-year design veteran, he has been honored with over 600 regional, national and international design awards and is featured in over 100 books about logos, the design business, and small business marketing.His first book, The Savvy Designer's Guide to Success was re"
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Print Singles: Total Fakers |
"You say that like it's a bad thing. But for Schein Berlin, designing fake products for TV and film is very, very good."
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Decoding Design Presented By Maggie Macnab (Mp3) |
"Create more effective and creative visual communications by consciously adhering to the principles of pattern, number and shape found in nature. Designer and author Maggie MacNab will outline the basic symbols that comprise any design, and show you how to use them to create impactful, long-lasting communications."
Price: 15
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Print Singles: State Of Play |
"Governments are giving more funding and support to European video games. But what makes a game European? Government ministers, developers, and gamers themselves are examining what games mean to them. Are games art? Are they expressions of a European sensibility? And do they need to be either of those things?"
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Communication Strategies For Creatives: Connect With Your Clients & |
"As a designer, you communicate in a uniquely different manner than your clients and corporate co-workers. At times, that can leave you feeling lost in a sea of words. But author and in-house veteran Andy Epstein has several strategies to help you communicate more effectively with the verbals in your office. In this highly visual and information-packed presentation, you'll explore tactics for selling your creative concepts and establishing your team as a key player in your company's marketing and communication efforts. You'll even discover the true value of your unique communication style, and learn how to share that perspective with your non-designer co-workers. About the presenter: An in-house designer since 1992, Andy Epstein created and grew in-house design teams for Commonwealth Toy and Gund, as well as restructured and expanded the 100-person creative team at Bristol-Myers-Squibb. He currently works at Designer Greetings, leading an in-house design team that develops th"
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"Project Management: How To Estimate, Price And Schedule - Ondemand" |
"*This DesignCast is part of the 3 part series: The 3 Necessary Stages of Professional Project Management Web projects are not the same type of beast as a print job. How do you know how long it will take? How much should you charge? What are the deadlines to know? Take a virtual test drive of the tools that will make your job easier. In this DesignCast, you'll learn: • How project management is part of the new business model • Which software is necessary and which you can do without • What tools are the most efficient for scheduling • How to estimate a schedule for a proposal • Which web apps can help with estimating and scheduling About the presenter: Daniel Schutzsmith is the Vice President of Core Industries and is also a professor at the School of Visual Arts."
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Print Singles: Mother Tongue |
"In Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Museum of the Portuguese Language vividly unites language and cultural identity. Learn about this incredible museum and see the how the stunning exhibits make an artistic statement about language and identity."
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In-Howse Designer Conference 2007 Speaker Panel (Mp3) |
"2007 In-HOWse Designer Conference speakers John Moore, Emily Ruth Cohen, Dante Quarante, Jeni Herberger and Peter Lawrence turn their expertise to questions submitted by the '07 Conference attendees."
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Opening Keynote: The Rise Of The Designful Company Prsented By |
"In an era of fast-moving markets and leap-frogging innovation, your company can no longer simply unlock wealth. Today it has to actively create wealth, or else end up in the fossil layers of business history. As a result, designers have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play a key role in the next management revolution--the Rise of the Designful Company. Marty Neumeier, president of the design think tank Neutron, explains why design is the next new best practice, and shows you how you can leverage your unique position as an internal designer to transform the way your company communicates, collaborates, and competes in the 21st century."
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Get To Know No Presented By Tony Gable (Mp3) |
"Think of this session as an hour of rejection therapy with Seattle design-firm principal Tony Gable. He'll explain the value in finding the reason behind the no, how best to respond to dissatisfied clients, and how to turn the occasional no into a yes."
Price: 19
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How To Build A Content Strategy - Ondemand Design Webcast |
"This OnDemand DesignCast is Part 1 of the Web Designer's Content Strategy 3 Part DesignCast Series. Part 1 - How to Build a Content Strategy Recorded Tuesday, October 26th 4 PM EST The Modern Marketing Website runs on content. Without unique, expert content your site won't be discoverable by your prospects and it won't be the lead-generating tool your business needs it to be. During this DesignCast, we'll take a close look at what a content strategy is, why you should implement one on your site, and how to get started filling your site with fantastic content that will draw in the prospects you want and entice them to engage with you via your website. Highlights include: Learn how to identify the right platform(s) for your content strategy (newsletter, blog, webinar) Learn how to create a writing plan for your firm Learn how to become a better, more confident writer Learn how to create compelling lead-generation conversion points on your site Purchase this individual s"
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The Right Staff: Hiring And Coaching A High-Impact Team For Large |
"Please note that this session is geared toward large firms, those with 10 or more employees; if your firm has less than 10 employees, you may wish to refer to the small firm version of this session.Your design firm is booming, and now it's time to augment the team. While this is a good problem to have, hiring and managing staff is one of the greatest challenges any business owner faces. In this session, staffing expert Katherine Spencer Lee will offer time-tested tips specifically for large firms that will help you identify your true staffing needs."
Price: 19
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