Listen to your own people and you’ll stand out
I’m going to say something I repeat over and over again when talking about brand and communications strategy. If you want to stand out from the crowd, you have to be true to yourself.
Thinking Out Loud about "Design Thinking"
How well do you know what’s important to you?
Everyone has the right to freedom of expression.
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
My war refugee grandmother told me a story about passing books in secret among her neighbors when she was a young woman in Ukraine.
Stop doing what you’re supposed to do
What are you supposed to be doing right now?
Probably not reading this article. I’m a distraction. I’m the kid your mom warned you about, the one who will keep you from doing what you’re supposed to do.
Following your fear in the design process
Stryker Theater, PIT NYC, image credit Peoples Improv Theater
The back wall of the Peoples Improv Theater (The PIT) in New York says in large letters: Follow the Fear.
The critical importance of not knowing
Image credit: Blindfolded Girl by barnimages.com
The first review for the current run of my solo show came in a week ago, and it’s a problem for me.
Can creativity be too distracting for your client?
I create content for clients as a creative director with a graphic design firm. And I create content for myself, and my audience, also a type of client, as a performing artist. For years my partner, both in business and marriage, has seen these two aspects of me as difficult to reconcile, and even more difficult to explain to that first set of clients, the set we share. Because I haven’t seen that difficulty, I had not seen the need to articulate how they can co-exist.
At least that’s what I told myself. That’s often the kind of thing we tell ourselves when we don’t feel like spending the time and thought it’s going to take to answer a difficult question.
How to cure a city of its self-esteem issues
Poughkeepsie looks out on a glorious stretch of water, two architecturally beautiful bridges and an ancient mountain chain. It almost sounds like San Francisco, doesn’t it?