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In-House Design: Careers & Advice
Find tips specifically for the unique challenges faced by in-house designers working for creative departments within corporations, organizations, businesses and educational institutions. If you work in-house, you may sometimes feel a bit out of place in corporate environments or in settings where you are the lone designer on staff. Get advice from in-house experts and learn how to navigate the corporate waters and maintain your creativity and design inspiration along the way. Plus, find tips for communicating the value of design to decision-makers.
5 Trends Every In-House Designer Should Know
Whether you’re currently working in-house, or pursuing a corporate gig, these trends are likely to impact your career.
How to Deal With a Bad Boss
Following are three of the most common types of bad managers along with strategies for how to deal with a bad boss.
Back on the Bus
The days are getting shorter the nights cooler—which can only mean one thing. It’s back to school time. Even though it’s been over 30 years since I set foot in “my old school,” the seasonal change awakens an almost primal instinct in me. Time to wash off all the chlorine and brush off the beach …MORE
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Creative Burnout: Traction Control with David Baker
Burnout is widely felt in marketing field. So much so that every individual will face it at some point in his/her career. Some of it stems from a propensity toward short attention spans, developed at an early age. Oddly enough, if you didn’t have access to a TV or hours of video games, you might be more creative now! (So much for the impact of your profession.)
How to Manage Workplace Gossip
Knowing when to halt bad workplace gossip and spread the good is a valuable skill to possess. Following are some office gossip guidelines.
In-House Designers: 37 Ways to Get Fired
Here, Andy Epstein, author of “The Corporate Creative,” offers a tongue-in-cheek list of ways to get fired in the hopes that you’ll not try them.
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5 Tips to Help Designers Avoid the Summer Doldrums
Design work seems to either come to a crawl or become insanely busy during the summer. Either way, you can avoid the summer doldrums with these tips.
The rule of 3: How to help evolve your client
By Mike Clark of www.shelfidentity.com Do you ever feel like a note taker instead of a creative problem solver? Has a buyer ever sketched out what they want for you, and said, “I’m practically designing it for you?” If you’ve ever dealt with a buyer who wants something very specific, and they’re telling you the solution …MORE
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In-House Business Startup Journal Part 4: Assessment and planning at less than warp speed
Assessment and planning at less than warp speed. By Andy Brenits, as originally seen on www.in-source.org The first task I undertake when starting a new creative services leadership job is to assess the situation. After about a month I typically have a good understanding of what’s going on, and can start putting together my big …MORE
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When to make the leap to F/T freelancing
by Ilise Benun If you’ve been freelancing on the side and trying to decide when is the right time to make the leap, you’re not alone. Here are two freelancers who blog for the Creative Freelancer Blog with their perspectives on the topic: Alisa Bonsignore, writer: If your finances are in order; if your business is booming, so …MORE
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