Do you have a creative business, another business or are you an entrepreneur? Are you just starting out? It can be overwhelming thinking about where to do start to market your businesses. Or maybe you have been doing your business for a while but just want to check you haven’t missed anything important?…
Some great things can happen outside the comfort zone. I took this challenge on a few weeks ago by tackling on the fear of heights with an aerial obstacle course when I visited Loch Lomond. I hugged trees for real as I crossed the course. My friend and I had looked at the…
As a creative, it is quite normal to gather a selection of things that inspire you on your creative journey. Images, sketches, objects and so on. But how many of us have believed the myth that if you copy less than 30% of another person’s work you are not infringing their intellectual property?…
Imagine it. Your first sale at 89 years old. This is the inspiring story of Carmen Herrera. She was an Cuban-American artist who died on 12th Feb 2022, age 106. She was born on 31st May 1915. She had studied Architecture, then Painting. She faced huge sexism towards her having exhibitions because she…
Have you ever wondered why your images look ok on screen but when you print them out they look poor quality? This is because an image can be lower quality or lower resolution on screen and still look fine. But to be printed out, the quality or resolution needs to be higher to…
We’ve all been impacted by Thomas Edison who invented the light bulb. He was an epitome of persistence with this quotation: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Imagine that. 10,000 failures before his success. Not many of us would have the determination and patience to persevere for…
I’ve been recently doing my sister’s course on Brain Powered Confidence and she shared a Youtube link to a story on Gratitude. A professor gave a surprise test to his students, giving them pieces of paper facing down. To the student’s surprise, they turned the paper over to find simply a black spot…
Are you working hard at your business or side hustle and are finding there are not enough hours in the day? I know what that feels like! Are you making the most of all the best technology out there to help you? I have spent a lot of time over…
Did you know that if a business is protecting it’s Intellectual Property, the value of the business can increase? This may not be of much interest right at the beginning of the design journey, but it can be very important further down the line. Where do you think Coca Cola would be today…
Reframing. I first came across this concept a few months ago. The Dictionary of Psychology describes it as follows: ‘a process of reconceptualizing a problem by seeing it from a different perspective.’ We have a picture, and when we see it as a whole, it is easy to see the full perspective,…