Teachable Moment

A brilliant idea can change your life. Just ask Steve Jobs. And think about it – how would one incredible idea affect your work? How would it affect your personal creating? Your career? Your confidence and opportunities?
These days, new ideas aren’t just inspiring; they’re essential. A narrow-gauge mindset doesn’t work [...]

Teachable Moment

CREATIVITY.
So I’ve been trying to understand how the creative process is affecting today’s businesses. What does it take, I wonder, to make the collaboration between creativity and corporate more fluid? To find out, I’m gleaning information from lots of websites and magazines like Harvard Business Review and Fast Company. It goes pretty [...]

Teachable Moment

To help understand the creative process and what it takes to make the collaboration between illustrator and art director more fluid, I thought the answers to this question might be enlightening.
The first trait of a good art director that sprang to mind was teamwork. Art directors, creative directors, designers and illustrators are passionately focused [...]

What is an art rep. and what do they do?
How should an illustrator find and approach the right art rep.?
These questions will be explored and answered on Tuesday, April 20th.
http://escapefromillustrationisland.com/podcast

Curtis Parker – The New Republic
 

Curtis Parker – Tampa Bay History Center/Christopher Chadbourne Associates
 

Penelope Dullaghan – Vegetarian Times

“This award recognizes an alum who exhibits exceptional work ethic, extraordinary craftsmanship and innovation; someone whose work pushed the envelope, influences many, and changes the way we see the world through art and design.”
- Lucy Godman, Director of Alumni Relations

It’s become popular these days to stir up visions of uniqueness, expression, and individualism. I want to encourage you that the expression of creativity will only happen if you eliminate boundaries. I’m not talking going outside the box, but going to the edge of the box and standing on top. You must have something [...]

By Scott Hull

At Scott Hull Associates we want to help you teach your customer how to get more out of your communications by bringing in outside help.
Most companies generate a steady stream of print communications, websites, packaging, trade show exhibits, ads, manuals, presentations, etc. When you add to the list, new emerging opportunities through [...]

As the decade I like to call the twenty-oh’s ends, think what a transformational change we have all witnessed in our culture. We are moving from selling facts to buying benefits. We all know where we are. But I think many of us have forgotten where we were, and just how dramatically things [...]