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Creative Matters

The Life-Changing Benefits Of Effective Resource Scheduling


The Power of Creative Cross Training: How Experimentation Creates Possibility
Pick up another creative habit and see your main hustle in a whole new way.


Creative Lives – the Lecture in Progress podcast exploring creative careers


Unlock Your Ideas With Mind Mapping In Just 3 Minutes


5 Top Designers On How To Create The Ultimate PowerPoint Presentation
Slide presentations usually suck—but a good designer can turn that around. Here are four tips for selling your ideas.


How Designers Get a Seat at the CEO Table
Our Q & A with Christopher Simmons, director of MINE, where we discuss how designers can go deeper than the creative brief.


How to Fix Design
Design leaders from across the world come together to figure out what the problems in the field of design are and provide the opening for solutions, which in turn give you a leg up on your career.


THE NO-PROCESS PROCESS
by Marty Neumeier


Podcasts



Digital Brand Unification

Q&A: Hayley Hughes talks good brand health


Building Brand Awareness: 3 Basics for Good Design


Taking Pattern Libraries To The Next Level


15 Mistakes That Are Sabotaging Your Content Marketing


Creative Management

How to Create A Handbook Employees Actually Read


6 Top Reasons Your Employees Are Not Creative at Work


10 Dumb Rules That Make Your Best People Want to Quit


Sometimes the dumbest rules can drive away the best employees.


Alex Schleifer: Designing the Perfect In-House Partnerships
Airbnb’s VP of Design on how to establish creative partnerships inside of a large company.


And for fun…

Where Do No. 2 Pencils Come From?


If Didot Were a Woman, She’d Be Audrey Hepburn


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AN ART OF LOOPHOLES
How the French artist Philippe Parreno studiously avoids having ideas.