Every June, the global creative elite descend upon the French Riviera not just for the rosé and the yacht parties, but for something far more combustible: the potential to redefine the future of creativity. The… Read More »Do We Still Need Cannes? Uncommon Creative Studio Makes the Case for Yes
The gateway to summer, June feels like the archetypal month for postcards, for sending a “Look where I am” or “Wish you were here” message on a piece of card stock with a glossy photo… Read More »Connecting Dots: Send a Rainbow or a “P”
The customer is at the heart of what we do as marketing, design, and branding practitioners. Without customers, businesses (our clients) will fail. It’s one thing to know the principles of our field of work,… Read More »Making Consumer Insights Count Beyond the Brief
It is a fact that there’s an uptick in writing about the art, practice, function and culture of design—and employing design as the lens through which criticism, lifestyle, society and politics are seen. The styles… Read More »The Daily Heller: Writing is for Design What Design is for People
50 Greatest Designers gets under the skin of the pioneers who shaped our world today. The saying goes: to know where you’re going, you need to know where you’re coming from. So if you work… Read More »Designers needed a book about their history that didn’t exist… so I wrote it myself
Image licensed via Adobe Stock From vague briefs to vanishing clients, creatives share the warning signals that could save your project’s success… not to mention your sanity. We’ve all been there. The client project, which… Read More »9 tell-tale signs your client project is heading for chaos (and what to do next)