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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.
In-House Business Startup Journal Part 1: The New Guy In Town
The New Guy In Town By Andy Brenits, as originally seen on www.in-source.org I’ve had the privilege of starting a new job 11 times in my career if you include the part-time after-hours teaching gigs. As such I have seen a pretty wide gamut of orienta…
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The Upside of In-House Design: 11 Perks to Consider
Corporate creatives are becoming a booming segment of the design community as more companies build a strong internal creative team. Working for these entities can have some serious perks that may contribute to a solid work/life balance.
Surviving as the Sole Designer for a Corporation
If you’re the sole designer at a big corporation, you probably feel both isolated and overextended. Following are some tips for making connections and lightening your workload.
Strategic Insights: Branding part 2
Hi there, Professor Andy here. Ready to keep trekking 2012’s path to becoming a smarter designer? Yes, then lets continue our briefing of the strategies behind branding, and how they tie-in with marketing. We left off last week by realizing that today’s businesses value success not by sales numbers alone, but by ensuring that customers …MORE
12-Month Career-Boosting Guide
Need a game plan for moving your in-house design career forward this year? Take the following 12 steps to help maximize your work potential. By making one new change each month, you can boost your career outlook—and add a little fun to your job!
Reignite Passion in Your Design Career
With love in the air, it’s a good time to consider how to reignite the fire — for your design career. Follow these tips to bring back that lovin’ feeling.
The Cohen-Miller Report: Left vs Right Brain
Left vs Right Brain by Emily Cohen Recently, my 12th Grade daughter, Hunter, was interviewed by an alumnus of Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business as part of her application process. Hunter encountered an interesting situation, one that is …
Strategic INsights: Branding part 1
Recently I wrote a 3-part series on marketing strategy aimed at giving in-house designers insight into how their marketing colleagues come up with those programs we’re asked to design for. For the last few decades branding has also played an importan…
6 Tips to Wow the Left-Brainers.
by Mike Clark You’re a creative, right-brained person. The boardroom is filled with left-brainers. The two groups think so differently from one another—how can anything be accomplished in this scenario? In the past 20 years, I’ve seen many right-…
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Our Pursuit of Fearless Leadership
Our Pursuit of Fearless Leadership by Ed Roberts Many organizations are quickly coming to the realization that the strategies and core values they adopted decades earlier are no longer valid and are potentially detrimental to their success. Or…
