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2019 AIGA Design Conference Diversity Scholarship Application

Who’s gone to an AIGA Design Conference or any art or design conference? Double tap or comment below!  One of the biggest investments I’ve made this past year was attending more events. I’ve always wanted to attend an art or design conference, and a few weeks ago, I saw that there was a diversity scholarship …

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How to Create More Time for What Matters Most and Design your Day to Win

See what I did there? As a freelance designer, it was only more recently that I realized I could also design my days as opposed to taking things as they come. We’ve all been there, days where you felt super busy (and tired) after a long day, but sat back and thought, where did my …

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10 Amazing Podcasts to Help You Jump-start your Creative Career

It’s been almost 7 years since Tom and Donna of Parks and Rec gave us the greatest holiday of all time: Treat Yo Self. While I am definitely an advocate and celebrate this holiday, I updated my “Treat Yo Self” version for 2018: “Invest In Yo Self.” Deciding that 2018 would be the year of investing …

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(Re)Start Before You’re Ready or Risk Not Starting At All. Ever.

Yes, you read that right, and you may be wondering why I tweaked the sage advice of starting before you’re ready, as many people and entrepreneurs have advised while sharing their success story. More often than not, their story is shared after the fact, and sometimes many years after reaching success. So this is my attempt to …

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Believe

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”–e.e. cummings       To continue to try different things and push myself in my work, I went to a free business workshop tonight and one word that really stuck out for me during the …

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Work in Progress – ARTLABkma Resources Coming Soon!

Starting something new is never easy. It’s scary and at times even terrifying, because of the unknown. But sooner or later, you roll up your sleeves and get to work on what you set yourself up to do.   As someone who had a background in fine art and transitioned to graphic design, I had …

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“Consider Everything An Experiment”: The Namesake for my Creative Studio

Over 5 years ago, when I was dubbing my art studio space “the lab”, I came across a Brain Pickings article on Sister Corita Kent’s “Art Department Rules”. These set of rules inspired my art practice and art making since, and especially Rule 4: “Consider Everything An Experiment”. Whenever I’m stuck, or trying to work through something, …

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Everything is Figureoutable: You Are More (CPT) Mashup

I set an intention to push myself further this year, especially in my creative career, and within the past few weeks I dove deep into the world of podcasts. Honestly, they never appealed to me (:::gasp, I know:::) until more recently, and I definitely think my longer commute to work has attributed to it. But, …

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